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Case Interview Foundations: 6 Types of Case Interviews

Management Consulted

Consulting firms rely heavily on case interviews to find the right candidate and, therefore, you should practice them – practice them well, start practicing them early (2-3 months prior to the interview), and then keep practicing them often. The 2 case interview styles are Interviewer-led and Interviewee-led cases.

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An Insider’s Look at The Case Interview Scoring System

Management Consulted

Sandy Lerner, co-founder of Cisco Systems, once summed up consulting interviews perfectly when she said, “The first rule of any game is to know you’re in one.”. In the research you’ve been doing into the wild world of management consulting, you should have noticed how important the case interview is on your road to a job offer.

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Hey, What’s Going On?

CaseInterview.com

It’s important to be constantly monitoring key performance metrics so you can tell what’s going on in your business quantitatively. Yes, the metrics say they are happy but are they really actually happy?) If sales and retention are on target, but you have no cash left in the bank, something is wrong. Talk to customers.

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6 Steps to Make Your Strategic Plan Really Strategic

Harvard Business

” Take the case of a recent client of mine, an architectural firm. ” Metrics were developed to monitor these, and targets were set before moving on. I’ve assisted a rural bank which decided that its target customer was “commercial family farms.” That is, what the organization wanted from employees.

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. CFOs of these companies themselves admit that they cannot justify their market capitalizations based on traditional metrics.

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PM Interview Question – What’s Your Favorite Product and Why

Tom Spencer

Like a consulting interview, a product manager (PM) interview consists of multiple parts, including a case study and a behavioral portion, which looks for communication, management, and prioritization skills. Thus, it is vital to ask product-related questions in a PM interview. What’s the interviewer looking for?

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How HR Can Become Agile (and Why It Needs To)

Harvard Business

Consider the cautionary example of a large bank I recently worked with. These ideas and practices, however, were nowhere to be found in the evaluation criteria of the bank’s employees. To prove this, ING made every employee at its headquarters (nearly 3,500 people) re-interview for their job.

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