Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Job interviews typically begin with a set of seemingly innocuous questions unrelated to the job: How is your day going? It is commonly assumed that job candidates and interviewers both prefer to start with these types of questions rather than just diving into the more rigid and formal structured interview topics.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

As fall recruiting season is on the horizon, it’s inevitably a busy time for many students looking to recruit into consulting. On top of regular life commitments, you also must spend time on preparing applications, practicing for interviews, and partaking in the interviews themselves. Make use of interviewer-led cases.

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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. I feel like that’s what impressed the interviewers most this time. So I did two internships.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I have been practising case interviews for over two months now, however, I always get a little tense when I am doing the cases. Please advise on how I could overcome the apparent nervousness and come across as calm during the other interviews. In sports, particularly in American sports, the term is "choking" under pressure.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 23, 2015

Tesla Motors first gained widespread attention following its production of the Tesla Roadster, the first fully electric sports car. Interview Tips & Tricks. With Tesla Motors, there is not one way to ensure you are accepted to go on to the interview process.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

When it came time for interview season, I didn’t have to look hard for case prep partners, as many of us were recruiting at the same time. Thus, they were able to give lots of guidance during my own internship search and were members at the firm when I was recruiting for full time. Image: Pixabay.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 2, 2021

But at the end of the day, if you are just a name on a job application, you might not get invited to that first round interview. There are two other ways to build your network with potential recruiters and employers: virtual information sessions and coffee chats. So how do you combat this nightmare?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 22, 2016

Finally, they assess candidates using loosely structured interviews—which are often not calibrated with later performance, and are rife with opportunities for implicit and explicit bias. This is a big step forward in assessing candidates beyond interviews and resumes, and though important, referencing also often fails to be predictive.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

From education, Eton College, from science, NASA (initially part of the US Army), and from sport, the New Zealand All Blacks and British Cycling. They also recruit from outside their sector to bring in new knowledge and experience. Then, we spent five years trying to understand what they do, and how they do it. Disruptive nervousness.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

Toby Johnson, who I interviewed for my book Reinventing You , taught me this one. ” He originally worried that recruiters would look askance at the gap on his resume, and his nontraditional choice of how to fill the time. The first lesson they’ve shared with me: control your narrative. It was the best job in the world.”

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Looking back, that experience significantly shaped my successful recruiting strategy and confirmed my desire to enter the consulting industry. That confidence made me more motivated to recruit for consulting, and also a lot more coherent in explaining to others, from recruiters to my parents, why consulting was right for me.

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freshminds

JUNE 26, 2017

You have a 2:1 from a reputable university, were the captain of your sports team, had an internship at a law firm and have a great smile? The recruiter said it would just be a chat about your experience and your personality? I would never tell my interviewer that I have a weird laugh and can’t dance!

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Excelling in the Interview. Make sure you take time to find who the recruiting contacts are for your region of the country or even your specific school and be comfortable reaching out to those individuals. His free moments are spent traveling and enjoying sporting events with his wife and daughter. The Application Process.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 20, 2015

Tom: Does IMS Consulting Group use the case interview as part of its recruitment process? How many interview rounds are there? Steph: We have one competency interview and two case interviews at the assessment centre. The first round would be telephone or a speed interview. Tom: What’s a speed interview?

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Excelling in the Interview. So, the rest of this post will focus on the two remaining areas: proper case practice, and things to remember during the interview. One of the good things about preparing for the case interview is that there is no shortage of resources to assist students in understanding the fundamentals.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Who gets invited to interview? Based on prior research showing that hiring in top professional services firms is highly skewed toward applicants from wealthy families, we expected that an applicant’s social class background would play a decisive role in determining interview invitations. country music).

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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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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

According to the Jobvite Recruiter Nation Report 2016 , 60% of recruiters say culture fit is of utmost importance in hiring decisions. This situation occurs frequently in professional sports. Leaving interviews solely up to managers who may feel pressure to get positions filled fast doesn’t always produce good results.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 15, 2018

When it comes to recruiting the three big criteria are: networking, application package (cover letter, resume, and transcript), and interview. DO follow-up on my replies and build with natural conversation (good topics to mention are sports, food, and travel). The smoother it is, the better. Poor body language.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

If you are a sports fan, Washington D.C. The Washington, DC office’s recruitment team hires highly intelligent people who start as great communicators but are trainable. is home to the Washington Nationals, the D.C. Deloitte also has a Federal practice in the DC Area – the office is located at 1919 N.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2018

We visited and interviewed farmers in Italy, Germany, and the UK to find out why the platform had bombed. Surprisingly, the interviews did not reveal any unequivocal reasons for why farmers shunned the platform. While cycling as a sport is growing globally, the avid cyclist subcategory is growing even faster.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Throughout the consulting career recruiting process, I found it memorable that in both informal conversations and formal presentations, the issue of personal life management did occur as a poignant topic of conversation. It is also important to help others visualize what this means. dinner at 9PM) and on shorter notice.

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Confessions of a Consultant

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Devise a semi-structured interview format and ask the customers what they want from you. In this we can usefully take a lesson from the sports professionals. The Devil looked at her and smiled: “Yesterday we were recruiting. Ask the customer. Discover the critical needs of the top team and ‘fix’ these. Today you’re staff.”.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

KPMG has made work-life balance a leading attraction in its recruitment efforts. LEK is a very selective firm — it was named one of the Top 25 Hardest Companies to Interview For by Fortune. Each office has its own traditions, which can include social clubs or sports. Compensation/Benefits. Work-Life Balance.

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