Management Consulted

DECEMBER 20, 2008

I offer a personalized consultation service – from re-writing your resume to simulated interviews/case studies to thorough Q&A. You’ll learn everything I know about recruiting at the top management consulting firms in the world. Subscribe to my RSS feed here.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Master fit questions, conquer case studies, and become the smartest interviewer in the room. The Consulting Bible is the self-study version of our 10-hour prep package – we tell you every secret we know about getting jobs at the world’s best consulting firms. What else can you tell me? This all sounds great.

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Case Interview Bain McKinsey Interviews 175

Management Consulted

JANUARY 27, 2009

Through hours on the phone, I share every secret that I know – telling them exactly what fit questions to expect, the difference between good and great case study responses, and the interview answer techniques that separate offerees from the rejects. What you should never say when asked questions about your recruiting status (pg.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 15, 2021

This can be seen from their graduate recruitment process. Recruitment screening assessments increasingly ask how candidates, as newly appointed auditors, would use emerging technologies. In recent years, the Big 4 accounting firms have placed an increasing emphasis on emerging technology.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 9, 2014

THE ADVISORY BOARD COMPANY INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. Once passing the initial screening, there are 2 to 4 more rounds of interviews that include both fit and case study questions. For the business, research, and consulting positions, The Advisory Board Company asks a mixture of fit and case questions.

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Interviews Culture Company Healthcare 147

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Joining a consulting club can provide you with numerous benefits: networking, learning how to do a case study, assistance with resume and cover letter writing, and access to resources to prepare for interviews. Through a case competition, you can increase your knowledge and skills in preparation for the actual case interview.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

A 2023 case study of the airline’s talent strategy.

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Airlines Case Study Case Studies Talent 117

Tom Spencer

APRIL 13, 2019

“Case study interviews put you in the driver’s seat: you’re given a real business problem to work through and solve. The logical reasoning you use to work through the case is just as important as the conclusions you reach” ( The University of Sydney, 2019 ). There are many different case study examples online.

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Case Interview Interviews Boston Consulting Group Case Study 68

Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

In later-stage ventures, important skills include recruiting specialist employees, communicating vision to new employees, and managing company culture. A founder must be able to assess their own strengths and weaknesses and know how to recruit and motivate complementary founding team members.” Cofounders are crucial.

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Engineering Survey Finance Recruitment 134

Harvard Business

JUNE 30, 2017

The metrics we track include: productivity, cost savings in recruitment and training, quality, retention, and speed to promotion. Three-quarters of our training is practicum, providing hands-on practice through role playing, case studies, and simulations. These metrics can be converted into an estimate of ROI for the employer.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 9, 2015

OC&C STRATEGY CONSULTANTS INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING . In your third round, you will encounter two 45-minute case study interviews, this time with partners. These longer interviews are meant to enable you to delve deeper into strategy side of the cases. However, they do recruit their applicants online too.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2017

” Case Study #1: Underscore the importance of your message and follow up in writing. ” A few years ago Focus Insite embarked on a big market-research study where it needed to recruit doctors, patients, and caregivers from all over the country who had knowledge of a specific medical condition. .

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

You are sitting in a chair facing a recruiter, manager, or professor asking you to share an experience where you displayed a particular emotion, dealt with a problem, or overcame a challenge. If answered incorrectly, the firm might deem you a poor fit, regardless of your case interview performance. “Tell me a time where you…”.

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Case Interview How To Interviews Recruitment 88

Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2017

Godbout: I have yet to see the case study of massive change management of innovation where a group of people came in and, like a whirlwind, changed everyone’s thoughts and executed the whole thing themselves. How did you recruit techies to take these jobs? The federal government has a broken marketplace.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 15, 2020

This way you make sure to have enough room for extra copies of your CV (without wrinkling them) and for a notebook to jot down notes during the case studies. You always need to bring a briefcase (not a bag or backpack) to an interview. This allows you to keep a better balance. Less is more.

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Case Interview How To Interviews Study 211

Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Dr. Reddy’s: A Movement-Minded Case Study. This was the case with the leaders of the 1960s civil rights movement, who recruited members through the strong community ties formed in churches. But recruiting new members to a cause is not the only way that movement makers leverage social networks.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 4, 2022

Case Studies. Typically, a generalist interview consists of two types of questions – experiential and business case study. Firstly, although the interview will still contain experiential questions, the business case will be replaced with client-based case studies, which will be related to the field of interest.

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Interviews Case Interview Engineering Case Study 88

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

As such, I’ve increasingly seen case interviews being used to recruit for corporate strategy roles in all sectors and business operation (“BizOps”) roles at startups. Now, case interviews for non-consulting industries tend to really intimidate candidates.

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Case Interview Interviews Consulting Case Study 78

Management Consulted

MARCH 18, 2015

IMS CONSULTING GROUP INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. There are three main ways you can get an interview: through campus recruiting, an online application or through an employee referral. You will be surprised to find that the highest number of applicants are through the online system, followed closely by campus recruiting.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 8, 2017

Case Study #1: Talk about concerns openly and give people flexibility. Others were worried about the company and how policy changes would affect its ability to recruit from abroad. ” Case Study #2: Provide a sense of hope. Don’t: Neglect your own anxiety and concerns. Ignore people’s emotions.

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Productivity How To Case Studies Case Study 134

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

We chose Brazil’s beef industry as the location of our case study , both for the size and complexity of the industry and for its impact on the planet. Nonetheless, the case study demonstrates that measuring the value of sustainable business can be done, and that sustainable business itself can be cost-effective.

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Methodologies How To Case Study Case Studies 73

Tom Spencer

APRIL 22, 2017

Consultants and recruiters often spend no more than a few seconds looking at your application when shortlisting interview candidates. Get comfortable with case studies and develop your own style. Case studies only make up about half of each interview. Spend some time perfecting your CV and cover letter.

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Cover Letters Case Study Case Studies Case Interview 60

Management Consulted

JANUARY 18, 2015

1997 – First Global Prize, an annual business school case study competition for potential recruits, awarded. KEARNEY INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. As a standard, in each interview, you will be asked to complete a short case study that measures your communication and problem-solving skills. Target Schools.

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Interviews Culture Case Interview McKinsey 100

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

IBM GBS INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. Example IBM Case Study question: Company X sells hardware, software and services. National Trust of India 2007 Appreciation Letter. The Best Employer for Persons with Disabilities. Click here for additional awards and rankings. Tell me about a time when you used your diverse ideas on a team.

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IBM GBS Interviews Consulting Case Interview 203

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Case Study #1: Tend to your primary work relationship by finding solutions to your boss’s problems. Case Study #2: Make your boss look good by being an exemplary employee — and don’t force a relationship with your boss’s boss. Neglect your primary work relationship.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 2, 2015

Tom: When is the next round of recruitment application deadlines? At MBA level, we recruit from B-schools in Europe and the US as well as locally – so deadlines vary accordingly. Kearney Consulting use the case interview in its recruitment process? Tom: Does A.T. Kearney: Of course! Tom: Does A.T.

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CaseInterview.com

AUGUST 20, 2019

Networks , networks, networks after missing most campus recruiting deadlines. This is the motivation for what happens next: Studies everything in print about management consulting once finding out Deloitte is still recruiting on campus. Finds your website one week before back to back case interviews.

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Deloitte Interviews Case Interview Consulting 40

Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2017

Case Study #1: Propose a pilot and then ace it by being responsive and productive. ” Case Study #2: Present evidence to make your case, and then be flexible and committed to the job. Take advantage of opportunities to demonstrate that you can work from home effectively and productively.

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How To Case Studies Case Study Productivity 144

Tom Spencer

MAY 13, 2018

Once you have already started a full-time job though, it may be much more difficult to quit in case you realise that you do not enjoy the job or the lifestyle that comes with it. If you want to figure out what really differentiates firms, company websites and recruitment events may not be enough.

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Consulting Case Interview Travel Recruitment 68

Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

” In the workplace, this “can stymie diversity, recruiting, promotion, and retention efforts.” Job listings play an important role in recruiting talent and often provide the first impression of a company’s culture. Case Study #1: Work to understand biases and set diversity goals.

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Case Interview Interviews Resumes Software 71

Management Consulted

JULY 12, 2015

ABT ASSOCIATES INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. The very first stage of recruiting at Abt is their online application, where you will upload your resume for screening. Top 100 company – Washington Technology, a list ranking the largest companies serving the government market.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 23, 2015

We give you all of the support that is required, and we recruit people who are self-starting, enjoy that challenge and are comfortable with autonomy. We recruit for experienced hires on a rolling basis. Tom: What does your recruitment process involve? Mike Meredith: Our recruitment process involves: CV and Cover Letter review.

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Cover Letters Recruitment Recruiting Case Interview 60

Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

To illustrate how this all plays out on a larger scale in real companies, here are two mini case studies from businesses we’ve worked with. Adobe’s New York office had been growing due to its acquisitions of smaller technology companies.

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Exercises Meeting Real Estate Survey 129

The Nonprofit Consultant

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Here's a quick look at six months of strategic, happy, thinking: The old mission statement: "We recruit, train and support volunteer host home families to shelter abused, neglected and at-risk children and youth." Tags: case studies branding vision Nonprofit success stories mission. But to what purpose? From process to outcome.

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Recruitment Recruiting Case Studies Case Study 66

Tom Spencer

JUNE 9, 2023

Whether you are studying for your MBA , Ph.D., You might be completing case studies, conducting experiments, and writing lengthy legal reports, all of which will prepare you for your career. graduate school is an incredible opportunity to learn as much as you can.

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Consulting Engineering Case Interview Course 88

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

The atmosphere itself, and the interview itself was very, very different in the fact that the big four in the UK in comparison to the MBB over here really focus a lot less on the case study. I think out of the four firms, I think I only had one case interview, which happened to be at Deloitte.

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Deloitte Case Interview Interviews Case Study 100

Management Consulted

MAY 8, 2016

These are common for on campus recruiting where 60+ people may be being interviewed. As such, they use this round to weed out the people who can’t solve cases by making sure everyone gets cases that are comparable in terms of difficulty. Market sizing questions are easy go-tos on the phone.

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