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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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Case Study: Are Our Customer Liaisons Helping or Hurting?

Harvard Business

Exit interviews were usually handled by junior managers on the HR team, but Amrita felt that given the high rate of attrition among doctors at Krisna over the past year, it was her responsibility as head of HR to talk to Dr. Vishnu Patel, a respected cardiologist who’d just given his notice. Ben Edwards/Getty Images.

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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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Make Data a Cornerstone of Your Team

Harvard Business

Take this opportunity to educate other teams in the organization by clarifying how the team was able to successfully leverage data to validate the demand in this new vertical — from setting up customer interviews, to tracking responses in a spreadsheet and reviewing them as a team. Install a TV showing a few data dashboards.

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How to Manage Managers

Harvard Business

but you should make time to do things like participate in their team meetings, watch them give feedback, or conduct job interviews. Case Study #1: Model the behavior you want to see. And their teams have made a substantial improvement in all of their performance metrics.” Give them space.

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The Top 7 Steps to Better Manage Stakeholders to Increase Influence

LSA Global

Get to know your key stakeholders by conducting surveys, 1×1 interviews, and focus groups. Use strategy success metrics , case studies, and testimonials to illustrate your impact. Your objective should be to clearly understand what matters what matters most to them and their teams.