Harmonious Workplaces

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

I’m writing this article around my 48th birthday. In 2022, at the age of 46, I interviewed for a marketing executive position with a tool manufacturer. After five or so interviews, the hiring manager stated that they wanted a “digital native.” The interview ended. Sorry I couldn’t be of more help. Wish you all the best!

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freshminds

JUNE 26, 2017

The recruiter said it would just be a chat about your experience and your personality? You’ve already had three interviews and two assessment centres; this new interview will just be a walk in the park? Well, let me tell you; never ever think that it’s in the bag! How competent are they? 2) Know your body language.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Internally, you’ll have the chance to meet other like-minded individuals who are all interested in consulting. When it came time for interview season, I didn’t have to look hard for case prep partners, as many of us were recruiting at the same time. Networking with Firms. Developing Key Skills and Competencies.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 9, 2019

Management Consulting Networking Success Story: I just want to drop you one additional thank you e-mail, as I heavily relied on your preparation sources throughout my interviewing journey (and the corresponding case interview preparation). I interviewed last autumn for a post-MBA/PhD position at the top firms in Germany.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 15, 2020

When you walk into an interview, even before you speak, shake hands or talk through your resume, something else is doing a lot of talking in your behalf: your appearance. Please make sure to polish your shoes carefully before the interview. Always wear a blazer to an interview. Reading Time: 4 minutes. Pants/Suits/Skirts/Blazer.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 12, 2019

really get to meet, and work with, the 'top dogs' of companies - people. Perhaps in my case it is also caused by working in a developed (Big 4) vs. developing (BCG) market, but I had to work more than double the number. Yes, I would like to Subscribe to the Case Secrets Email Newsletter. At BCG, you. The level of.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 31, 2019

I probably put in over 100 hours preparing , and only about 80 of those were for the case, I believe those additional 20 hours of prep for the experience portions helped put me over the top when competing with other candidates from more target schools. Basically, to get interviews, network, network and then network some more.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 25, 2019

What the student was asking about is what is the dress code for an informal interview like this and what would be the best use of the 20 minutes or, so they were being giving to “chat” with the consultant. . in terms of recruiting -- especially any mistakes you can think of that people with this kind of background typically make?

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

In this article, I will share some these stories with you and address some common questions that come along with receiving multiple offers. Success Story: I interviewed with both McKinsey and BCG today and they both made me offers, despite me telling them I was as likely to pursue graduate studies as I was to take up a job with them.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Your materials have been helpful in many different ways, from the psychologic preparation to the technical approach to solving the case. In my particular experience, your guidance was essential to me in revealing the personality behind the much-feared recruiter and interviewer. Live, written, creating cases for yourself.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

This F1Y offers tips based on his experience going through the case interview process and securing an offer from Booz Allen Hamilton -- after deciding to switch to consulting from the medical field. However, I didn't apply through our campus recruitment as I really didn't know what I wanted to do at that stage.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 27, 2008

For my new readers, here are some recommended and popular articles for you to browse: Management Consulting and the Consulting Industry 101. Top 10 Interview Tips. Overview of the Management Consulting Recruiting Process. It showed me the “benchmark” that I need to meet in order to be successful in business.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

To check out our London video with in-person testimonies (with awesome accents), make sure to read on to the end of the article… The trip started off on the right note – Michelle got her first-ever upgrade to First Class. The case cracking session was most insightful. It’s good to travel with an ex-consultant!

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 7, 2014

. BRIDGESPAN INTERVIEWS & CULTURE . This is an amazing opportunity to dive into content and tools used by Bridgespan in their work advising nonprofit clients, to apply those tools in meeting organizational priorities, and to do so in partnership with a select group of nonprofit leaders. BRIDGESPAN INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING .

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

That's because, in the recruiting process, your entire performance is determined by a combined three or four hours of interviews. It is a nice luxury that those still in the recruiting process do not have. In this post, I will focus on one of the three major mistakes (to discover the other two, see the end of this article).

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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. You have to be prepared for Sunday – Friday travel, which is the flip-side of client exposure – you get to meet and collaborate with the client, but you are NEVER at home.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 13, 2019

What you will learn: Learn what skills you need to display in a case interview in order to impress your interviewer. The skills that they are looking for can differ between interview formats,types, and rounds. Topics Covered: Interviewer’s Mindset. How to Prep for Candidate-Led and Interviewer-Led Interviews.

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Martinka Consulting

JULY 15, 2017

And how it’s used to bombard us with targeted messages, or, in worst case scenarios, how others can use it to terrorize people. I mention these articles because it’s not nearly so easy for the rest of us. A friend feels she recently dodged a bullet during an interview. Here’s what happened.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 27, 2018

A new research study I led at CTI uncovers, through a nationally representative survey of 3,212 individuals with STEM credentials, and through dozens of additional interviews and focus group conversations, the differentiators of success for women in STEM. We find that about 1/5 of women currently employed in STEM meet that bar.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

We love being in the trenches with our clients, a case with every professional services firm. I think their recruiters love that because it’s an annuity for them. Many consulting firms spend time writing about their methodologies or writing about their own case studies to self-promote. That’s been okay.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 30, 2019

At other firms, they often go to the client for meetings, to conduct interviews, gather data, etc. And finally, how good are you at recruiting clients to do the work for you? I recruited four clients to do the analysis for me. me in this case, whatever assistance I need.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

When I am contacted by candidates who have made it through the case interview process with a successful offer, often I get emails like the one below with tips for those still interviewing. I structured my way through recruiting process in the following way. Both are very important for successful case interview.

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Harvard Business

MAY 21, 2018

In most corporate structures, today, recruitment for a position generally means starting with a formal list of tasks — the standardized job description — and hiring someone who can make a convincing case that they would perform each one. Everything is geared, just for us. Then we have job descriptions.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 10, 2017

“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. ” That may indeed be the case, but it’s not the message you want to send to your would-be manager. Shift your mindset.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

And the legal and punitive costs of sexual harassment cases can feel steeper to a firm with less money and fewer resources. Among the group, 30 had a written sexual harassment policy, 14 had held a company-wide meeting, and 10 had conducted a training session on the subject. Then I’d try to resolve the problem internally.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

The next layer of books and articles will help you scale these practices to 10, 50, or 500 teams. To prove this, ING made every employee at its headquarters (nearly 3,500 people) re-interview for their job. In fact, in many cases the employees’ skill sets were still highly relevant.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2018

The date will depend on the employee’s level of contribution and where we are in recruiting a replacement. 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.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

We chose Brazil’s beef industry as the location of our case study , both for the size and complexity of the industry and for its impact on the planet. Nonetheless, the case study demonstrates that measuring the value of sustainable business can be done, and that sustainable business itself can be cost-effective.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2017

Weak ties are the people you know, but not terribly well: your child’s teacher, or the friend of a friend you happened to meet at a party. He interviewed 100 white-collar workers who had switched jobs in the previous five years and discovered that weak ties helped many of them find out about their next job.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 25, 2019

I recently received this success story from an actress (now a BCG consultant), and thought you would find her suggestions and tips on case interview prep useful. I did your maths drills daily, and can practically recite the fashion case-study - I listened to LOMS on the tube, while cleaning, on my morning jogs.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 9, 2023

You might be completing case studies, conducting experiments, and writing lengthy legal reports, all of which will prepare you for your career. This article reflects on 4 activities that were common time sinks in college. This skill will save you lots of your (and your client’s) time and money.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

The human resources department, which conducted daily exit interviews with staff leaving the hotel, was concerned that negative comments about working conditions would make finding new talent difficult. In the case of the recruiting issue, we made faster hiring a competition, rewarding individuals and teams that showed the best results.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

First, if your network has become too narrow, you limit your options in case of a career change, or a downturn in your company or industry. Dan, a senior professional I interviewed for my first book, Reinventing You , realized that he hadn’t invested enough in his own “bridging capital.”

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

More important than memorizing the main case frameworks is the ability to take your hypothesis and build an issue tree (or customize a standard framework) that will test your hypothesis in this specific case. Using Issue Tree’s in a Case Interview. Your Hypothesis. The MECE Test. Basically, everything they can think of.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 18, 2021

While you can talk with recruiters or alumni from your school about potential employment opportunities out there, you have no real way of knowing how it will feel to utilize your degree without actually working. Every article about securing your dream job talks about networking, so why not get a head start on it? Build Your Network.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

I first came across your materials [ last year ] as I was about to undergo undergraduate internship recruiting at [ U.S. While that has been a great experience, I ultimately found my greatest training and instruction in how to prepare for case interviews from your website and materials. University ]. city ] office.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Between April and June of this year, we asked 15,413 job seekers who visited PayScale.com to evaluate an active job offer whether they disclosed their pay at previous jobs at any point during the interview process. Try asking a group of recruiters or hiring managers whether they’d consider including salary ranges in their job postings.

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