Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The prize for best answer was a FREE Consulting Case Bank and The Consulting Bible 3rd edition – a HUGE giveaway – so we weren’t surprised when we heard from so many of you. As we were looking through your responses, we realized you were answering as if you were in an interview – and that’s smart.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

On top of regular life commitments, you also must spend time on preparing applications, practicing for interviews, and partaking in the interviews themselves. With such a busy schedule, it can be tough to find a partner to practice cases with. The idea is simple: Identify aspects of the case interview that you are weak on (e.g.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 11, 2019

This caseinterview.com student sent me an email recently asking my advice on how they could practice and improve their performance in the problem-solving part of a case interview. First of all, many thanks for all your information and encouraging words on case interview preparation . Reader’s Email. My Response.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Reader's Email #1: I have been practicing cases for management consulting case interviews for more than a month using your videos and on your Look Over My Shoulder ® program. [ I received this email nearly a month ago, so in total this person has been practicing for nearly two months before the final round interview.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Question: Thank you for creating the Case Interview Secrets videos and Look Over My Shoulder ® program. My question is related to note-taking during the interview. What I am struggling with is keeping up with the interviewer, and still trying to note down key facts. Some information is more important than others.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 22, 2019

There are lots of little things that separate a candidate who does a good job on a case vs. an excellent job. While it's not necessary to be perfect on every case, it is necessary to come pretty close most of the time. By the time you master the case interview, will you have any interview opportunities left?

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Question: I have been following your blog at CaseInterview.com and using your video for my case interview practice. I did exactly this in one management consulting interview and got dinged -- the biggest feedback I received was I lacked creativity (which I intentionally suppressed to make sure that I was not jumping around).

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CaseInterview.com

AUGUST 15, 2019

In preparing for the case interview, there are a few skills and tools that you can master to help you succeed. In this chapter, you will learn what these tools and skills are and how you can utilize them to help you perform at your best during the case interview. Case Interview Math. Case Interview Math.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 4, 2013

This is a transcribed phone interview between Rachel (name changed) and Jenny Rae – enjoy her insights about failing the first time around but coming back for consulting success and landing an offer with McKinsey in her senior year. What I look back on it, I think the way I did my cases just weren’t at the bar they had set.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 16, 2020

1) Sample-Size Problem As of March 5th, 4 pm ET, the United States had: Total Cases: 164 Total Deaths: 11 Friends of mine have said, “Why is everyone freaking out over 11 deaths?” Only 164 cases, that's not bad compared to other countries." The closest proxy metric that’s easy to measure is # of NEW cases today vs. yesterday.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

By far, the most valuable thing (for me) was the insight into the mindset of consultants and interviewers, which is what your emails provided. It affords a real sense of perspective for a candidate like me, so when I walked into the interview, there was nothing intimidating about the guy or girl in front of me. based resources.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Can you talk a bit about the support network at the Consulting Society and how they prepared you for consulting interviews? When you actually began the interviews, what did you discover? When I first started doing interviews, I’d get nervous and make the answer a lot more complicated than then really needed to be. Peter: Sure.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

While this exercise won’t take a lot of time, it may be psychically intensive. In that case, clarify: I appreciate that feedback. When you’ve finished the interviews, look for themes and repetitive points (it’s OK to shed outliers as long as you’re sure they don’t contain valuable information).

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 31, 2020

To secure a final round interview at Bain, you would have to be in the top 3% of applicants for that office. No one enjoys being turned down, especially in the case of a consulting role where a lot of preparation is required. The key thing to do after a rejection is to reflect on the interview process and ask for feedback.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 9, 2019

.’ — Elon Musk, founder of PayPal, Tesla, and SpaceX, in an interview with Mashable. This is probably the most powerful exercise that you can do to get things right. This is probably the most powerful exercise that you can do to get things right. You can extract maximum results if you make this 15-minute exercise a habit.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 28, 2020

I’ve participated in several mass casualty training exercises (e.g., In several of those exercises, I had the opportunity to train in the role of incident commander (IC) and other leadership roles. At the very start of one of my exercises, all of our “patients” began screaming in agony and pain. Q: How many patients do we have?

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The goal of this exercise is to: Build your technical vocabulary and identify best practices. As a bonus, this exercise will also help you craft stories for your interviews and could help you sharpen your resume by using more technical terms. Identify when and where you have applied certain skills. Learning new skills.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 28, 2016

From the very beginning, Booz Allen Hamilton has been involved in some very high profile cases. Candidates will be interviewed on campus or over the phone. BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING . For the next interview you will most likely have several 1:1 interviews with different mid-senior level staff members.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Over the coming months we will be posting about the consulting interview. In this post we look at the purpose of the consulting interview. The purpose of the consulting interview is twofold. Why do interviewers use the Airport Test? Firstly, it is a test of client readiness. Are you ready to respond? Two reasons.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 3, 2023

This might include taking relevant courses or workshops, participating in case competitions, or working on personal projects. Prepare for the interview process: People advisory consulting interviews may include both technical and behavioral components, and it’s important to be well-prepared.

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Management Consulted

MAY 21, 2015

Candidates will be interviewed on campus or by phone. Having retained the governmental work, keeping the prestigious 100 year old “Booz” name and now exercising its freedom to work with commercial entities working at BAH would definitely be a wise move in terms of exit opportunities. Exit Opportunities.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

It is ridiculous how fast Ali Raisman and Jordyn Wieber are on the floor exercises. However, one comment I have received quite often from CIBs over the past year or two is that they find my help on the case interview to be immensely useful, but they are struggling to get the interview in the first place.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The idea was to take the structure of a popular song, rewrite just one of the five aspects of the song as a SIMPLIFIED LEARNING exercise to learn the rules of thumb to learn the basics; then cycle through one at a time re-writing one piece, while keeping the others aspects constant. When a CIB first tackles a case, they usually struggle.

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 17, 2019

I interviewed with six major consulting companies + three others during my MBA program 1.5 I managed to get the interviews with all three majors with the help of my well established networking connections, but was again dinged by McKinsey and Bain. Going through interviews after being dinged before is twice as hard.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 17, 2018

Internal and external analyses are performed, interviews with key stakeholders are conducted, and key strengths and opportunities are identified. Strategic planning aims to answer seemingly simple questions but these questions have many moving parts and demand a variety of inputs, exercises and assessments. Where are we now?

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 17, 2020

I’ve also led mass casualty training exercises as a field operations leader and incident commander. In that case, you need to explain why everyone’s instinctive reaction is the wrong one. (I live eight miles from downtown Seattle, but not technically in Seattle). I’ll refer to some of these experiences in a moment.

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MishTalk

JULY 24, 2013

Case Against The Fed. Supreme Court Cases. What follows is a guest post regarding two important union cases that the US Supreme Court will hear. Supreme Court has agreed to hear two cases in the next year which will determine whether persons will be protected in their. In the first case, the U.S. Home Builders.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Let us look at an example as a sort of case study. Sometimes, they also complete team-building exercises such as “Escape the Room”. I wanted to learn about DISI from firsthand experience, so I interviewed its two Co-Presidents. DISI provides students with plenty of skills and experiences to talk about during job interviews.

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Chad Barr

MARCH 30, 2016

What results are described in your client testimonials, case studies and client interviews? This week’s tip: Use this critical exercise to calibrate your business GPS and the positioning of your company. The post Where Are You Going? appeared first on The Chad Barr Group.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Here at MC, we had the pleasure of recently interviewing Josh and asking him how he’s navigated his interesting career path, and how consulting was a great place for his passions and skills to collide. I was selected to interview at both the NIH and the DoD and subsequently was offered positions in both organizations.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 9, 2018

During a recent time tracking exercise, I discovered I’m actually at the low end of the spectrum, spending about 1.35 But analyzing the emails I received taught me an important lesson about why it’s essential to exercise stringent judgment: each “yes” leads to a cascade of (typically unforeseen) work.

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MishTalk

JULY 23, 2013

Case Against The Fed. City bureaucrats and the PEL can hem and haw and p**s and moan, but can-kicking exercises, "scoops", and tax hikes will only make the problem worse. 2011-04-23: Syndicated Interview on Canadian Radio - My Segment Starts 29:31. This Week in Money Interview. 2011-03-29 - Sound Money Interview.

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Comatch

AUGUST 29, 2022

We complied- describing our butter use cases and agreeing to reduce our intake accordingly. You can do this exercise in a structured way using an “Ishikawa” or “fishbone” diagram. Tip: Make identifying root causes a group exercise! Ask people who are familiar with the problem statement but bring diverse perspectives.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 10, 2018

A client (who I’ll call “Alex”) asked me to help him prepare to interview for a CEO role with a start-up. It was the first time he had interviewed for the C-level, and when we met, he was visibly agitated. Caiaimage/Andy Roberts/Getty Images. Let’s go back to Alex as an example of how to execute this.

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CaseInterview.com

AUGUST 12, 2019

She offers tips for successfully using LOMS and I include my response where I go into more detail on the best way to prepare for a consulting interview with LEK. I honestly would not have been able to develop my interviewing skills so quickly without your Look Over My Shoulder ® program , so again, thank you! Consulting.

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MishTalk

JUNE 26, 2013

Case Against The Fed. Experts who examined it told the Financial Times the restructuring allowed the cash-strapped Treasury to stagger payments owed to foreign banks over a longer period but, in some cases, at more disadvantageous terms for Italy. 2011-04-23: Syndicated Interview on Canadian Radio - My Segment Starts 29:31.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Thank you for preparing the best case prep material out there. I'd like to add one thing, though: you should DEFINITELY put more emphasis on how great/helpful your Case Interview Secrets book actually is (specially if used in tandem with the LOMS program). Kearney and almost landed one at McKinsey!

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