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From Ad Agency & Non-Target School to McKinsey Offer

CaseInterview.com

Second, after college, I got a job at [ ad agency ], a top advertising agency, but not exactly a common (though not unprecedented either) route to management consulting. I had to learn how to do a case interview. According to my interviewer, I needed to work on analytical skills, quantitative skills and conceptual skills.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

The prize for best answer was a FREE Consulting Case Bank and The Consulting Bible 3rd edition – a HUGE giveaway – so we weren’t surprised when we heard from so many of you. As we were looking through your responses, we realized you were answering as if you were in an interview – and that’s smart.

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KPMG Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

.” Explaining the tag line in a company statement, KPMG marketing officer Tim Pearson said, “The emphasis on clarity – not simply knowledge management or insight – in our brand advertising campaign strongly differentiates KPMG in the increasingly crowded business advisory arena and articulates KPMG’s business strategy.”

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A More Humane Approach to Firing People

Harvard Business

Employees of course have to be allowed to leave the office during work hours for interviews or other search-related activities, but I ask that they minimize these absences and keep them brief to avoid raising questions. I have reviewed their resumes at their request, made introductions and offered to serve as a reference.

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The Right Way to Check Someone’s References

Harvard Business

” Worst-case scenarios aside, reference checking often yields “vital” information about the candidate, says Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, a senior adviser at global executive search firm Egon Zehnder and most recently the author of It’s Not the How or the What but the Who: Succeed by Surrounding Yourself with the Best.