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Today marks the first day of AlphaCamp for a new hire class. I arrive at work, excited and ready to lead a week of training sessions that PD has been prepping for the last few weeks. I get in early to greet the new joiners in the kitchen and get t...

I’m not a designer, but I consider myself a problem solver and in order to solve problems I always feel the need to gather as much knowledge as possible around my area of expertise. So I decided to go to a design conference this year and expand ...

In a distributed system we have a group of nodes that need to collaborate and send messages to each other. To achieve that they need to first answer a simple question: Who are my peers? That’s what membership protocols do. They help each node i...

  The Client Protection (CP) team at AlphaSights is here to do just what its name entails: protect our clients. They ensure that clients use our services and access the knowledge they need safely. Therefore, it’s important that our CP team is a...

Luna is a manager on our Client Services team for strategy consulting clients. She started in AlphaSights’ Dubai office in 2017 after graduating from the American University of Beirut with a degree in architecture.  7:30 am - I usually wake up ...

We live in a world where data is at our fingertips. Technology allows us to search practically anything, but the sheer amount of information available makes it difficult to discern what’s important and what’s not. For businesses, finding the right...

Last week, London Client Service Associate Connie Van Stroud sat down with Natasha Bhana, AlphaSights’ Head of Recruitment for Europe, to pick her brain on all things interview related, and find out what she enjoys most about leading our recruitin...

After spending just shy of two years on London’s Client Protection team, Joe Docherty reflects on his time at AlphaSights and the role this experience played in securing his next opportunity. After graduating with a law degree from the Universi...

The summer before senior year is known to be stressful. Pressure’s on to land an awesome internship and secure that coveted offer before heading back to school for one last hurrah. I struggled a lot to figure out what I wanted to do. Growing up, I...

AlphaSights wouldn’t be where it is now without our Office Experience (OE) team. From event planning to improving the firm’s environment to office maintenance, OE is a well-oiled machine that keeps our offices across the globe up and running. They...

Now a manager on AlphaSights’ fast-growing Finance team in London, Merel Peters had a rather unique path to her current role. After her internship on our Client Service team (CST), she sat down with Co-founder, Andrew Heath, to figure out her next...

After nearly eight months into the world of work, I can only describe my feelings towards working life as a pleasant surprise. As expected, my initial dive into the adult world in a busy London office came as quite a shock to the system after sunb...

I joined AlphaSights in September 2017 as an Associate in our Hamburg office. I’m originally from Munich, Germany, and after I received my Masters in Management having studied in Lisbon, Portugal and Sao Paulo, Brazil, I knew I ultimately wanted t...

This November, we held our first AlphaSights Alumni event in Hong Kong. Five AlphaSights alumni, alongside current employees from the HK office, were invited to enjoy dinner and drinks at SPIGA HK. Throughout the evening, the group shared the diff...

  Recent graduate and Client Protection associate, Brittany Spinelli, discusses her application process and path to AlphaSights The Application Process When my parents asked what priorities I had in mind when I envisioned my career, I fel...

Everyone at AlphaSights has the opportunity to volunteer for Knowledge for Good (KFG), our social impact business unit. We partner directly with impact investors, social entrepreneurs, or nonprofit consultants, providing our knowledge-search servi...

At AlphaSights, we believe that career development is a top priority. When people move jobs, they shouldn’t necessarily lose the relationship they’ve formed with their previous employer or coworkers. Therefore, we welcome alumni back, allowing emp...

One of the newest members of the AlphaSights team, Celine Zoetelief-Tromp, shares her perspective on our Associate Program application process: What initially interested you about AlphaSights and the Associate role? The more I learned about ...

This month we sat down with New York’s Izzy Spada to chat about her dynamic role at AlphaSights and how the two blend together. Read on for insights on her life as a second-year Demand Gen Associate and as President of the company’s global Women’s...

Following our London MD Andrew Heath's talk with The Economist, we read up on the future of work and how essential it is to develop your soft skills in order to future-proof your career. The automation of labour has resulted in a reduction of p...

More than 50 years on from the decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales, Stonewall’s 2018 report LGBT in Britain is not all rainbows and butterflies. The report is worth reading in full, but to pick out some headline points: “M...

Celebrating our tenth anniversary in the knowledge industry Since 2008, AlphaSights has grown from a team of two — our Co-Founders Max Cartellieri and Andrew Heath — to a team of over 450, with colleagues originating from New York to Shangh...

It’s not often you hear the words “hard work” and “fun” in the same sentence. Looking back on the last 12 months, I would definitely describe my placement at AlphaSights as both of those things. Here’s what I think you need to know if you’re think...

Anna, Danielle and Max decided to take a gap year between school and university and joined AlphaSights in September 2016. Here are their reflections on their time so far. Taking a year off before university can be an unnerving step into life af...

Patricia is part of our Alpha-X team, which runs an Inspirational Speaker Series, amongst other projects. Here she writes about our most recent Lunch and Learn on entrepreneurship and building growth. Last month we invited Laura Parker, Strateg...

The vast majority of people who graduate from their Bachelor’s degree in the Netherlands either continue studying or take up a board position in a student association. Neither of those options genuinely appealed to me, so I opted for something dif...

As I picked up my copy of The Sunday Times last weekend, I was delighted to see AlphaSights appearing for the 3rd year running on the Virgin Fast Track 100, this time in 21st place, confirming our status as one of the UK’s fastest-growing firms. H...

Your first interaction with an employer may well be at your University Career Fair. Although it is not an interview, it is definitely an opportunity for you to differentiate yourself from the rest of the crowd. The best way for you to make a good ...

For the latest edition in London’s Alpha-X Inspirational Speaker Series, Stefan Porter joined the team last week for drinks, snacks and a short presentation, sharing his exciting business journey so far. Last week in the London office, we were ...

In April, I represented AlphaSights at the 2019 Skoll World Forum, through an event co-hosted by our social impact partner Acumen, and Business Fights Poverty. During this packed day of interesting lectures, breakout sessions, and networking oppor...

Not-for-profit organisations tackle some of the world’s toughest issues, from access to education and healthcare, to poverty and human rights. The AlphaSights Knowledge For Good initiative (KFG) aims at leveraging AlphaSights’ core capabilities - ...

At the end of the school year, I watched proudly as my class of 5-year-olds marched out of the door for the last time. They were small in size, but enormous in personality. Fast forward two weeks, and I found myself beginning an internship at A...

It was never really in my plan to spend much time abroad - I’d spent most of my life in Singapore, and was really comfortable and settled there. My overseas journey formally began when I moved to the UK to pursue my studies in Experimental Psychol...

As a firm, we promote AlphaSights as a platform upon which ambitious young professionals can launch their careers. As I prepare to take my next step following 3.5 years at the company, working across both our Consulting and Capital Markets segment...

Coming from Belgium, I moved to London two years ago to read a Masters of Law at the London School of Economics. At the end of my year at LSE, I started to think about my first career step. Having studied Law for several years, the classic career ...

I joined AlphaSights four and a half years ago, when we were a significantly smaller team with far fewer offices but growing extremely quickly. We were all commercially focused and our primary goal was to provide an outstanding, quality-focused se...

Over the last few years, AlphaSights has truly become a business with a global footprint. Until recently, major regional hubs in New York, London, Dubai and Hong Kong have enabled us to build diverse teams ready to serve clients around the clock a...

Month six at AlphaSights and time has flown by. Taking a moment to reflect, I realise that there are a number of reasons why time has gone so quickly. Many of us, while at university, compile a mental list of things we hope to see fulfilled when s...

Life as a lawyer offers many things: a long-term career path, a clearly defined day-to-day role, and an easy way to explain what you do for a living. Having read Law at Cambridge and trained at a leading global firm, the legal treadmill was alread...

It is widely known many of the qualities gained through playing sports are desired by employers and transferable to working life. This sentiment may ring true in particular for people who have played team sports, which naturally emphasise communic...

According to recent statistics, more than half of the UK’s top employers now offer industrial placements to undergraduate students for a period of six to twelve months. From the employer’s perspective, such opportunities are put forward with a vie...

Lea joined the London office in 2014 following her Bachelor's degree in Germany and focuses on recruiting in the DACH region. As a 23-year-old, you might wonder (and so did I) what advice I could possibly give other twenty-somethings. When I gr...

For the past eleven years, I have travelled, lived, studied, and worked all over the world. The desireto continuously move and explore cultures, people and countries has become an essential part of who I am. Originally from Germany, I went to scho...

When I think about Pride, I’m reminded of a younger Ciarán, in a previous job, who went back into the proverbial closet. I came out early on in university but after I graduated, there was always a fear or worry that showing my full self would be t...

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust With offices in London, New York, Dubai and Hong Kong, AlphaSights is running around the clock. Every day, our work spans over 100 co...

Connect+ Event Cologne/Köln It was early summer 2014, the day after the most intense storm of the year. I had been selected to participate in AlphaSights’ Connect event in Cologne and was determined to make an impression on the team – I knew I ...

At AlphaSights, we have unique range of clients, from Corporate Strategists to Fund Managers. My team is part of the Capital Markets (CAP) segment in London and we work specifically alongside hedge fund and credit fund clients. What marks out hedg...

We often lose sight of our future vision and long-term goals in the daily grind of everyday life. Recently, however, I read an article which helped me take some time to reflect on the work I do at AlphaSights. I am fortunate to have worked with co...

In my sparsely decorated New York apartment, there's a large world map framed on the wall above my bed. Across this map, there are a number of black, red, and white-colored push pins in sporadic locations. Black pins symbolize the places I've been...

I joined AlphaSights in May 2014 after three years in Fixed Income at a large British Investment Bank in London. Having graduated with a MSc in Finance from HEC Paris and a BSc in Maths & Economics, plus two internships in banking (M&A and...

Richard Branson, Alan Sugar, Philip Green… All world-famous entrepreneurs who passed up further education for the “school of hard knocks.” Ross Bailey, the most recent guest speaker in the London office, seems well on his way to joining this il...

Andy Cipolaro, the Head of Technical Talent at AlphaSights, spoke to Flatiron School about the special combination of past work experience and programming abilities that AlphaSights looks for when hiring junior developers. Check out the intervie...

My first 6 months at AlphaSights has flown by — it seems like only yesterday when I first applied to the Associate program last September. I joined AlphaSights in January 2018, after studying Economics at The University of Exeter. Since then, each...

During the week of August 25th, AlphaSights employees across three of our global locations - Hong Kong, London, and New York - accepted the #IceBucketChallenge and came together to #StrikeOutALS. ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, attacks th...

Hello world! My name is Eamon, and I’m a Software Engineering Intern at AlphaSights. During my summer internship at AlphaSights, I've been able to work on existing and brand new web applications as a full-stack developer, using Ruby on Rails, C...

After the founders, the next two employees of AlphaSights were software engineers. From the beginning, AlphaSights was built on a foundation of exceptional employees enabled by great software. Our engineering team of two was located in a startup h...

“Onwards and upwards,” has been our founders’ day one catch-phrase and it doesn’t just apply to our firm’s growth but also for our professional development. Since our founding, we’ve prided ourselves on offering an accelerated career path t...

Like any great start-up, our story starts at Stanford Business School in California. Well, that’s at least where our two co-founders, Max Cartellieri and Andrew Heath, met while playing beer pong and getting their MBAs in the late 90s. Both develo...

After graduating from the London School of Economics, Jakob Muratov began his career as a Client Service Associate in AlphaSights’ London office. He serves AlphaSights’ consulting accounts, focusing on Nordic-based clients. Initially drawn to Alph...

Over the summer I had the opportunity to work at AlphaSights and I must admit that I could not have asked for a better opportunity to work on real-life problems. So let the fun begin… Before my internship had even begun, I thought that web d...

Searching for a post-grad job is exhausting. You spend hours scouring LinkedIn, submit dozens of applications, sit through countless interviews, and attend networking event after networking event. The hardest part? Sometimes, you don’t even know w...

I recently gave a talk at Ember London on GraphQL, a language introduced by Facebook to build powerful and extensible APIs. Watch the video from the January meetup below and check out our open source Ember Data adapter here. No REST for the...

The title of this article should be ‘Web Performance for Someone Who Has Developed Applications For Quite a Long Time But Still Has No Idea Really’. That would be me a couple of days ago. I realised I had no idea how a browser worked. My genera...

Walk into any office with developers in it, and chances are you’ll see some sort of system status dashboard. For historic reasons that no one can remember, ours is called Walnut. Walnut. No one knows why. First, a history lesson. The p...