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Consulting Case Interviews at Non-Consulting Firms

Tom Spencer

Consulting-style case interviews are highly effective, and the same format is being adopted more and more widely. The major consultancies have converged on a largely identical interview style, precisely because it excels in picking out the most genuinely capable candidates from the huge pools of applications received.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

Have an upcoming Oliver Wyman interview? Retail and Consumer Products. And, of course, their claim to fame, Financial Services , is broken down into even more practices including: Finance and Risk. Retail and Business Banking. Corporate and Finance and Advisory. OLIVER WYMAN INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING.

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IBM Consulting Interviews: Navigating the IBM GBS Maze

Management Consulted

As the next installment in our popular Firm Profile series, we take a look at the evolution, reinvention, and current interview tactics of one of the world’s premier consulting firms – IBM. Finance Risk. Areas like finance, accounting, communications, HR and marketing. Excellence in Retail. Enjoy the ride!

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How Organic Wine Finally Caught On

Harvard Business

Through historical research and many interviews, we found several ways in which early stumbles in the organic wine market created marketing problems that the industry still struggles to overcome. ” Organic wine was not strongly embraced by distributors and retailers, either. Why the difference? New category creation is not easy.

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PARADE Method

CaseInterview.com

The PARADE Method (tm) is an approach to answering resume-oriented job interview questions. It is an approach I developed that is tailored for answering these questions in job interviews for management consulting, as well as interviews for senior executive positions in industry. Interviewers want to know what you did.

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Inside a Fortune 500 Boardroom

CaseInterview.com

In contrast, my favorite boardroom belonged to a clothing retail chain in California during the Great Recession of 2008. If you know finance, especially the finance of retail businesses, that’s nearly impossible. I had never heard of a retail business with such high profit margins. but was still profitable!

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Infosys Consulting Interviews & Culture

Management Consulted

By crafting Infosys’ image of a firm of artists as opposed to a firm of scientists, Infosys Consulting managed to poach talent from rival firms, including IBM’s head of global retail. Finance and Controlling Processes. From the very beginning, Infosys Consulting exploded onto the scene, growing 700% by 2007. HR Processes.