Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

On top of regular life commitments, you also must spend time on preparing applications, practicing for interviews, and partaking in the interviews themselves. You are probably familiar with the advice that you should do intense directed preparation for case interviews, but the suggestion is worth repeating. Read the news.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Question: I have been following your blog at CaseInterview.com and using your video for my case interview practice. I did exactly this in one management consulting interview and got dinged -- the biggest feedback I received was I lacked creativity (which I intentionally suppressed to make sure that I was not jumping around).

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 11, 2019

This caseinterview.com student sent me an email recently asking my advice on how they could practice and improve their performance in the problem-solving part of a case interview. First of all, many thanks for all your information and encouraging words on case interview preparation . the whole interview was done in 22 minutes.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

While this exercise won’t take a lot of time, it may be psychically intensive. When you’ve finished the interviews, look for themes and repetitive points (it’s OK to shed outliers as long as you’re sure they don’t contain valuable information). Ask for details or examples if you need them.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 11, 2015

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. I was selected to interview at both the NIH and the DoD and subsequently was offered positions in both organizations.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 31, 2020

To secure a final round interview at Bain, you would have to be in the top 3% of applicants for that office. The key thing to do after a rejection is to reflect on the interview process and ask for feedback. For example, doing a course on LinkedIn on ‘ Communicating with Confidence ’ could help you develop your interview skills.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 3, 2023

Prepare for the interview process: People advisory consulting interviews may include both technical and behavioral components, and it’s important to be well-prepared. This might include taking relevant courses or workshops, participating in case competitions, or working on personal projects.

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Steve Shu Consulting

JULY 4, 2017

Helping advise another person to get an executive role – As an example, I essentially provided coaching feedback to a person that was interviewing and pitching to lead a new business within another company. So I created a new role within the company by writing a job description, and I filled that role on an interim basis via contract.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 28, 2020

I’ve participated in several mass casualty training exercises (e.g., In several of those exercises, I had the opportunity to train in the role of incident commander (IC) and other leadership roles. At the very start of one of my exercises, all of our “patients” began screaming in agony and pain. Q: How many patients do we have?

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

JANUARY 17, 2020

The strategic planning process contains various steps, exercises and opportunities to develop a culture of alignment and follow-through within your organization. This resource will serve as a step-by-step overview for the strategic planning process. For more on how to generate alignment and buy-in:

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The goal of this exercise is to: Build your technical vocabulary and identify best practices. As a bonus, this exercise will also help you craft stories for your interviews and could help you sharpen your resume by using more technical terms. Identify when and where you have applied certain skills. Learning new skills.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Conduct Virtual Simulation Assessment In the Midlevel Director Competency Assessment , Directors and Senior Directors are given 1-3 hours to respond to purposefully designed exercises and prompts including in-basket requests, e-mails, interactions, presentations, decisions, interviews, and other management challenges relevant to potential, new, and (..)

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Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2017

My company represents self-employed professionals across the country, and over the last seven years I have interviewed, coached, or worked with more than 200 independent management consultants. Exercise #1: Look at Your History. Exercise #2: Get Input from Colleagues. The exact opposite is true. That’s the hard part.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Learn more about the interview preparation course and guide that helped land offers at BCG, Accenture, and McKinsey. Master fit questions, conquer case studies, and become the smartest interviewer in the room. Over 50 fit questions that you’re guaranteed to hear in consulting interviews.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 11, 2021

This can be a good exercise to do when working out your five-year plan. Research is also essential when going into job interviews. Doing some research on who will be interviewing you can also significantly boost your chances of getting hired. Look for ways to grow.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

guided interview prep homework and practice plans. We had to up the ante…free ourselves from the confines of a book…so that we could blast open the most valuable vault in the history of consulting interview prep. 200+ cases classified by interview round (1 and 2) so you can tailor your practice progression.

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Comatch

AUGUST 29, 2022

You can do this exercise in a structured way using an “Ishikawa” or “fishbone” diagram. Tip: Make identifying root causes a group exercise! This is the “hypothesis testing” part of your problem-solving exercise, where you will identify the most important levers to solve the problem.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 10, 2021

To expect anything else of yourself is just a cruel exercise in demanding god-like perfection from a human being. The only way to never get rejected from a job interview is to never apply. To be human is to fail, encounter obstacles, and face setbacks. The only way to avoid setbacks is to do nothing.

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LSA Global

MAY 26, 2023

Receive Assessment Results Certified professional assessors and smart technology score participants’ behaviors against research-backed and client aligned managerial competencies required for success in your unique workplace culture.

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The Fearless Marketer

JULY 12, 2021

We’ll always include a 10-minute small group discussion or exercise. Proactive Experience Marketing: Webinars, speaking, presentations, podcast interviews, etc. We’ll address the client-attraction issues you are struggling with. You can submit questions before the meeting or live in the meeting. Targeting your ideal clients.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The interview is your first and possibly only opportunity to stand out. These days I’m spending a lot of time in conference rooms interviewing prospective candidates, from engineers to salespeople to a new director of marketing. The interview is your opportunity to show you’re a fit for the company. Even worse.

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Management Consulted

JULY 15, 2015

Interview Tips & Tricks. There is not one sure way that leads your application to be accepted to go on to the interview process. Again, depending on the position for which you have applied the interview process can vary slightly. Virgin even allows you to take an unlimited amount of vacation hours!!!

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The Management Centre

APRIL 8, 2024

Chris Chadford, Learning and Development Manager at the Calico Group In this interview Chris Chadford, Learning and Development Manager at the Calico Group, shares his experience of developing managers so they have commercial, financial and innovation skills. It also had to be practical so we took a toolkit approach. What’s next?

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Sometimes, they also complete team-building exercises such as “Escape the Room”. I wanted to learn about DISI from firsthand experience, so I interviewed its two Co-Presidents. DISI provides students with plenty of skills and experiences to talk about during job interviews.

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 17, 2019

I interviewed with six major consulting companies + three others during my MBA program 1.5 I managed to get the interviews with all three majors with the help of my well established networking connections, but was again dinged by McKinsey and Bain. Going through interviews after being dinged before is twice as hard.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 12, 2014

There are other options - including our “Consultant for a Day” exercise or the MC Consulting Bootcamps. Interviews with Entrepreneurs. Have you heard of mirroring in interviews? We have been working behind the scenes to compile resources to aid you in business understanding. Khan Academy.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 10, 2021

To expect anything else of yourself is just a cruel exercise in demanding god-like perfection from a human being. The only way to never get rejected from a job interview is to never apply. To be human is to fail, encounter obstacles, and face setbacks. The only way to avoid setbacks is to do nothing.

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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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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Can you talk a bit about the support network at the Consulting Society and how they prepared you for consulting interviews? When you actually began the interviews, what did you discover? When I first started doing interviews, I’d get nervous and make the answer a lot more complicated than then really needed to be. Peter: Sure.

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Harmonious Workplaces

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In 2001, Michael hired a no-name like me after an informational interview to become the Associate Marketing Director for GIA Publications. Among the exercises prompted by the cards, I pulled one that had me map my career like a river with all of its tributaries starting at a young grammar-school age.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

As we were looking through your responses, we realized you were answering as if you were in an interview – and that’s smart. These days, it pays to practice being in “interview mode” so you’re ready for the real thing – whether it’s networking with a neighbor at Starbucks or sitting in the hot seat.

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Chad Barr

MARCH 30, 2016

What results are described in your client testimonials, case studies and client interviews? This week’s tip: Use this critical exercise to calibrate your business GPS and the positioning of your company. How do you help transform their lives and businesses and what are the amazing results they achieve by virtue of working with you?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 10, 2018

A client (who I’ll call “Alex”) asked me to help him prepare to interview for a CEO role with a start-up. It was the first time he had interviewed for the C-level, and when we met, he was visibly agitated. Caiaimage/Andy Roberts/Getty Images. Let’s go back to Alex as an example of how to execute this.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The idea was to take the structure of a popular song, rewrite just one of the five aspects of the song as a SIMPLIFIED LEARNING exercise to learn the rules of thumb to learn the basics; then cycle through one at a time re-writing one piece, while keeping the others aspects constant. When a CIB first tackles a case, they usually struggle.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 22, 2017

Interview Tips & Tricks. Prepare for interviews. This is a great company in which to challenge yourself, as it provides a consistent creative outlet paired with a need for ingenuity to further mature and advance its positive impact. Check out some of the other firms that we have profiled below. Related posts: Post Consulting Jobs.

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Martinka Consulting

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The sub-title includes, “After years of exercise and healthy eating, a reporter’s blocked artery came as a shock.”. A health industry reporter, who exercised, ate healthy (a lot of salmon, oatmeal, and similar but with a passion for cheese), and paid attention to his health found out he had a almost completely blocked carotid artery.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 16, 2020

When I’m not teaching about case interviews and working with clients, I volunteer and train as an emergency medical responder. Hey, this stuff is useful in real life not just case interviews.) I prefer to consider that scenario as an intellectual exercise and not as a participant. [As Let's do some “estimation” math.

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