Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 6, 2018

In this post, I will share tips on the case interview, assessment centres, keeping stress levels down, and staying motivated on your journey to land a coveted role in the management consulting industry. Get friendly with case studies. Though some may be interviewer-led (i.e. industry, market) and internal (e.g.

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Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

They are interested in case studies only to a point. This principle hit home for me when I did an interview project to find out what executives are looking for in consultants. Discover how to start your business right.the first time when you download the “Strategic Business Build Guide.”

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

To the uninitiated, the case interview can be more than a little bit terrifying. The main point of the case interview is to provide you with an opportunity to show the interviewer the great job you’d do if they hired you today and set you straight to work. Not tens, or hundreds, but thousands. 1 – Mental Math.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

Positioning Yourself As The Expert — How To Develop A Consulting Voice That Clients Will Listen To with Ron Carucci. How did you go from that pivotal moment of working in the arts to actually starting a consulting business? I switched careers into learning and development and organization development. Ron, welcome.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Here area couple of success stories received from readers who used case interview preparation techniques for securing an offer outside of consulting. Success Story: I would like to share my positive experience of a business case interview, thanks to your website! You get then 5 minutes to present your conclusions.

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Management Consulted

JULY 12, 2015

In 2009, the UK Department for International Development awarded Abt $200M+ to strengthen Nigeria’s health system, the largest contract in the Company’s history. The types of opportunities that are available to Abt are strongly in line with the work that they do, focused on non-profits, development, social policy and many others.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 18, 2015

KEARNEY INTERVIEW AND CULTURE. 1997 – First Global Prize, an annual business school case study competition for potential recruits, awarded. Kearney aims to provide support for companies by helping them stay ahead of new market developments and positioning them to capture new opportunities. Firm hires 2,000th employee.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 9, 2015

OC&C STRATEGY CONSULTANTS INTERVIEWS & CULTURE . Like the practice areas, OC&C Strategy Consultants have developed their personal strategy around smaller focus areas but promising big results. OC&C STRATEGY CONSULTANTS INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING . Business Unit Strategy. Strategy Realization. Industries .

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Management Consulted

MARCH 18, 2015

IMS HEALTH INTERVIEWS & CULTURE . Business development and licensing. Market development strategies. New product planning/product development strategy. IMS CONSULTING GROUP INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. The first round of the interview will generally be held over the phone and lasts around 45 minutes.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

After spending 18-years under the guidance of your parents, you gain the freedom to explore the world, study a degree of your choice, discover who you are, and explore potential career options. Most importantly, you can learn how to pitch as if you were presenting to a client. Prioritise academic excellence.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 10, 2019

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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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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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 11, 2015

How in the world did Josh go from a PhD in cell and molecular biology to a job in federal consulting for The Tauri Group? 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.

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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.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 23, 2014

In my view, the 2 best things about working at BCG are the people and the opportunity for personal development. In my experience, the average case team is made up of 3 or 4 nationalities, including the individuals who in past lives were entrepreneurs, surgeons, or front line soldiers and now run charities or marathons in their spare time.

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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. Conducting Literature Reviews I remember learning about how to carry out literature reviews as an early step in the research process.

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Chad Barr

AUGUST 16, 2023

Here’s its first attempt: Day Theme Content Day 1: Marketing Monday Maximizing Digital Outreach Share insights on the latest digital marketing trends and how they can be implemented to reach new audiences. Include real-life examples and case studies to illustrate the potential impact. Pretty impressive, isn’t it?

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Women in Consulting

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Deb Siegle, WIC’s president, was recently interviewed (by email) regarding women consultants and business owners for possible inclusion in an article for one of the Boston College blogs. Here are excerpts from that interview. But we can develop skills and expertise that make us relevant, credible, and sought after.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 29, 2022

The school environment helped them develop networks that played a key role in launching their enterprises. Informational interviews become second nature to the point that rejection no longer leaves a mark on you. Developing negotiating skills. Alumni engagements and roundtables happen bi-weekly. Final thoughts.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 13, 2015

As you’ve likely already figured out, the case interview is a very unusual creature. In the consulting case interview, your time is even more precious: you have only 4 minutes to develop and present a plan (2 to structure your case and 2 to present). Overview of consulting case frameworks.

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Kai Davis

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

This could look like content marketing (articles, testimonials, case studies) , marketing campaigns (advertising, outreach, events, webinars) , or personality based marketing campaigns (podcast hosting, podcast guesting, guest articles). How Do You Become A “Consulting Niche Celebrity”? Would you believe it?

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Kai Davis

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

This could look like content marketing (articles, testimonials, case studies) , marketing campaigns (advertising, outreach, events, webinars) , or personality based marketing campaigns (podcast hosting, podcast guesting, guest articles). How Do You Become A “Consulting Niche Celebrity”? Would you believe it?

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

If you know what you need to do and how to do it ahead of time, you could save yourself a lot of heartache during your job search. Application process: There is an extensive online form with more stages to follow, including interviews, tests, and assessment centres. This tends to be followed by several rounds of interviews.

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Kai Davis

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This rule applies no matter if you’re promoting your services as a consultant, pitching a guest article or interview, or promoting yourself. Look at how they are and aren’t using ‘you’ focused language. This is Propeller ( [link] ), a popular Shopify development agency. The website — Propeller.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

You might know how to do the former, but how do you do the latter? And how do you serve as a good role model? Here’s how you can fill in the gap and help your direct reports be great managers. The people who report to your direct reports look to you for clues as to how they should feel about their managers.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Furthermore, given the uniqueness of each person’s situation and context, it’s especially difficult to write an exhaustive how-to article on this topic. Prioritize skill development over compensation. I believe the best route to long-term compensation and self-confidence is to focus intensely on skill development early in my career.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2017

And if you’re called in for an interview, should you acknowledge you might be overqualified? ” Your goal, therefore, is “ to make sure the interviewers don’t shy away from you.” “Prove to the interviewer that he needs to hire a big fish, not a minnow.” Should you still apply?

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

The focus is on developing and refining your approach to the recruitment cycle to be able to make a powerful impression throughout. The team draw on their vast experience to deliver a unique take on how to excel at the interviews, with an emphasis on tackling a variety of case study scenarios.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 20, 2022

Eventually, I learned how to do my marketing online to the point where people would pick up the phone. She had heard bunch of my interviews and follows the podcast. The site is the place where I direct potential clients to read case studies, show my expertise, tell my story and invite them to engage with me in a conversation.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

I did not know how to prepare and I ended up getting the LOMS one day before my interview. Out of the two case interviews , I aced one and failed the other, so I did not get an offer. I passed several rounds and ended up flying to this big city in the US for the final interview. The first of them was Bain.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

The saying “You only have one chance to make a first impression” holds true in many situations, from job interviews to sales calls. How can you make sure that you start off on the right foot in any of these scenarios? “The camaraderie develops naturally.” “I do not get nervous for interviews.

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 20, 2021

And with stories of how traditional companies like Fidelity Investments, Walmart, and B2W have adopted them, he offers a practical toolbox for applying them to your business, starting today. Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance by Erica Dhawan (2021). How to Change by Katy Milkman (2021).

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Chad Barr

JUNE 3, 2015

This week’s reflection point: The most common question I am asked is how to drive traffic to one’s site. These pages should contain offerings and credibility building pages such as case studies and testimonials. Get interviewed by others, which will then get announced by them with the focus on you. Stay tuned.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

You’ve done your research and know the ins and outs of the company’s public profile, but how can you assess cultural fit — and if you’d actually be happy working there? During the interview process, you had a singular goal: to get an offer. Interview your prospective colleagues. What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2018

News of this kind is “hard to hear, and it’s hard to deliver,” says Joseph Weintraub, a professor at Babson College and the coauthor of The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business. ” Talk about development separately. “It’s not the time for a development conversation ,” he says.

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Rod Burkert

JANUARY 7, 2020

And please join me this Friday at 1pm ET on Practice Development INSIDER for my interview with Mark Zyla. If you want to become a thought leader in your practice area or industry niche, you should understand how someone like Mark did it. On your website, do you have case studies and testimonials that provide credibility?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 10, 2017

“Think about the offer in terms of your development, your quality of life, and the variety of the work you want to do.” “The purpose of the interview is to get the offer,” he says. ” That may indeed be the case, but it’s not the message you want to send to your would-be manager.

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