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Examples of Concluding Your Case Interview (Part II)

Tom Spencer

This article focuses on how to conclude well in your case interview. What I’m going to do in this post is to give two examples of conclusions to the same case interview: one okay conclusion and one great conclusion. It is part 2 of a 3 part series. Okay Conclusion. Great Conclusion.

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Value Chain Analysis

Tom Spencer

Value Chain Analysis is another tool that may prove useful during the consulting case interview. It can be used to analyse the cost structure of a company as part of a declining profitability case, or to analyse the supply chain as part of an operations case. (Source: Flickr ).

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Transitioning from Management Consulting to Corporate Strategy/M&A – the Interview Process

Tom Spencer

Many management consultants hardly complete two or three years in their jobs before they realize that there’s more to life than consulting. Some consultants leave for personal reasons, because they want to start a family or spend more time with their loved ones. Interviews. Multiple hiring team interviews (case + fit).

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Frameworks for the Case Interview (Part II: Mergers and Acquisitions Framework)

Tom Spencer

The reason that this framework is worth introducing is due to the increasing frequency of M&A cases confronting candidates in the case interview. Needless to say, M&A deals are notoriously complicated financial activities, which makes candidates panic when they are prompted with an M&A case.

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Consulting Case Anatomy – A Simple Breakdown

Management Consulted

As a prospective consultant, one of the things that can seem the most mysterious in the case study prep process is wondering what the interviewer is going to ask you next. Many of you have heard about interviewer-led and interviewee-led case interviews and are wondering how to approach each one appropriately.

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Can Consulting Make a Positive Social Impact?

Tom Spencer

Similarly, in traditional management consulting roles, employees often utilize the latest tools to solve their clients’ problems, often without considering the impacts beyond the client themselves. Let us look at an example as a sort of case study. Enter Social Entrepreneurship!

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So You Didn’t Do a Consulting Internship

Tom Spencer

Hypothetically, the fastest way to secure a consulting role after higher education is to do a consulting internship and then get a full time offer, or transition into another consulting offer with the ability to demonstrate you know what consulting is about. Please explain why you want to go into consulting now?