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How to Hire the Right Talent for Your Business

Granite Leadership Strategies

Consider the typical scenario: You advertise on a job posting site, a job search engine, or a social media site where candidates may search for open positions. You receive a slew of resumes or applications. Out of all those resumes, you only find a few candidates you want to call for an interview.

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Consultant Marketing Trepidation To Elation

Jerry Fletcher

She can Trust in the interviews and based on comparing her analysis of the relative success of her contacts verify how much she should attend to their advice. When I was CEO of an ad agency I would do two or three informational interviews with youngsters, new to the trade, each week. Impress but focus. They really want to know.

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From Creative Industry to McKinsey Offer - Experienced Hire

CaseInterview.com

Question: It was really fascinating to read your today's email about landing a McKinsey offer while coming from advertising. Because this is exactly what I'm going through now: I work in a top ad agency in [ European city ] and I'm in a middle of my preparation process for interviews in MBB.

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PARADE Method

CaseInterview.com

The PARADE Method (tm) is an approach to answering resume-oriented job interview questions. It is an approach I developed that is tailored for answering these questions in job interviews for management consulting, as well as interviews for senior executive positions in industry. Interviewers want to know what you did.

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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. I gave up all my free time for about a week and had my first 30-minute case interview phone screen with a McKinsey alum.

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Coronavirus: Leadership during a Crisis

CaseInterview.com

My guidance has usually been in the context of a client seeing major drops in sales, engaging in layoffs, and redirecting the team in a productive direction (as opposed to being paralyzed by fear or working on their resumes). The more you read, the more they make in advertising.]. And now we are in 2020.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

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.