Tom Spencer

MARCH 4, 2022

Case Studies. There is a lot to think about when preparing for consulting interviews , and you may want to check out some of our other blog posts and guides for preparing your resume , creating your cover letter , and improving your network. Many of these processes also include early round interviews. Generalist Firm Interviews.

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Interviews Case Interview Engineering Case Study 88

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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Bain McKinsey Cover Letters Case Interview 75

CaseInterview.com

MARCH 5, 2019

Some consulting firms recruit individuals quite early. Here are some of the top MBA programs that consulting firms recruit from, and the first-year consulting salary figures associated with these MBA programs. However, only students of top talent within these programs are recruited. NYU undergrads earn an average of $58,000.

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Consulting Management Case Interview Recruiting 81

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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Engineering Recruiting Recruitment Case Interview 88

CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

In case interviews, the MECE principle is a valuable tool for creating issue trees break down complicated problems into basic components you can evaluate and help you get to the root of the problem. It’s important to understand each of these points before using MECE in your case interview with McKinsey or other top firms.

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 16, 2019

Below is a success story from a student who was an experienced hire who passed five BCG interviews. This story offers insight into the recruiting process for experienced hires as well as tips for success in the interview. This is a summary of my experience going through BCG interviews as an experienced hire.

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Interviews Case Interview Recruiting Recruitment 40

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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Case Interview Interviews McKinsey Sales 59

CaseInterview.com

MARCH 10, 2019

Facing rejection from consulting firms is an emotional topic especially with the time and effort candidates put in preparing for the case interview. I applied at the top consulting firms , and was rejected from MBB (I was not even offered interviews with them). In these cases, it means you did not do well on the case.

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Cover Letters Case Interview Consulting Interviews 45

CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Question: I am a loyal subscriber of your emails and a big fan who also benefited a lot from your case interview materials. However, the interview experiences have solidified my determination to become a consultant. You mentioned in your emails that MBA and brand employers are the key factors that get us to the interview.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

Booz & Company Interview and Culture. So you have a Booz & Company interview coming up, and you want to be the best candidate they see? He began by helping firms recruit competent executives, acquire new customers, and establish conducive office space. Product and Service Innovation. Consumer Products.

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Interviews Culture Company Case Interview 181

Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

Have an upcoming Oliver Wyman interview? They seized this opportunity to establish a firm that would help firms gain clarity about their business models, products, and clients and then advise them by creating long term strategies. Industrial Products. Retail and Consumer Products. KEY STATS FOR OLIVER WYMAN.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Thank you for preparing the best case prep material out there. I'd like to add one thing, though: you should DEFINITELY put more emphasis on how great/helpful your Case Interview Secrets book actually is (specially if used in tandem with the LOMS program). Kearney and almost landed one at McKinsey!

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Case Interview Interviews McKinsey Recruiting 40

CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 30, 2019

I received two offers recently and have also been given offer deadline extensions for them until later this week, which I had requested as a way to "buy" time: 1) to hear back from other firms I interviewed with, and 2) for the final round interview with my top-choice firm this week. People will probably forget within a year.

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Ethics Case Interview Consulting Interviews 40

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 7, 2014

. BRIDGESPAN INTERVIEWS & CULTURE . Colin Bowman – Product Manager – Yahoo. BRIDGESPAN INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING . Bridgespan’s interview process is fairly straightforward and is pretty much the industry norm when it comes to interviewing with a consulting firm.

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Interviews Culture Bain Consulting 150

CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Some new consultants who do well in case interviews actually have a very hard time with this on-the-job reality. This is particularly the case from those that come from science and math backgrounds -- especially those with PhD backgrounds. A few days ago, I received an email from someone who has a BCG interview coming up.

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Case Interview Consulting McKinsey Interviews 49

Management Consulted

APRIL 6, 2014

PWC INTERVIEW AND CULTURE. Whether you’re planning to interview at PwC or just want the lay of the land, check out one of the coolest business stories consulting has to offer. This is the area where consulting lives, and the primary focus of this article. Industrial Products. KEY STATS FOR PWC. PwC Website PwC U.S.

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PricewaterhouseCoopers IBM GBS Case Interview Interviews 221

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As the pioneering Danish firm Specialisterne showed first in the early 2000s, however, and as the Australian Defence Organization’s partner DXC Technology has demonstrated through deployments in Australia, if you manage things right, you can recruit great talent and activate it to a maximum degree from populations of autistic people.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Specializing in economic, financial and market analysis, specifically for cases in litigation, Cornerstone Research touts itself as the one player major law firms turn to when navigating the obstacle course that is the American and European legal systems. Consumer Fraud and Product Liability. Accounting. Antitrust and Competition.

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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. Consumer Products. KEARNEY INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. The interview process at A.T. However, as a general rule, there are two rounds of interviews.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 1, 2018

For top-tier consulting firms, there are two primary marketing efforts – the first, marketing to attract entry-level recruits, is quite visible. Bain also links to an Insights section on its website, and all firms publish a variety of articles, reports, podcasts and interviews.

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Leadership Boston Consulting Group McKinsey Bain 60

Management Consulted

APRIL 5, 2015

CONSULTING INTERVIEWS & CULTURE . Consumer Products. Diligence : They continually strive to do their best by delivering the highest quality products and by never stopping to challenge, question and respond to clients needs. CONSULTING INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING . . L.E.K. Consulting. Marketing & Sales.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 16, 2020

This article identifies what lies ahead for graduates considering a future in consulting, and highlights key insights that I gained by interviewing junior and senior consultants. Every year consulting firms hire new high achieving young graduates, meaning that recruits from last year must move up or move out. Brace yourself.

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Consulting Industry Case Interview Culture 88

CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

When I first started recruiting for consulting jobs, an interviewer at Bain shared a story (arguably a legend at this point) about how Bain (or it might have been McKinsey) was asked to advise Motorola on whether or not they should enter the mobile phone market. In my client's case, none of that was available. I’m not sure." "How

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McKinsey Case Interview Bain Data 75

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

As the next installment in our popular Firm Profile series, we take a look at the evolution, reinvention, and current interview tactics of one of the world’s premier consulting firms – IBM. The division focused on in this article is IBM Global Business Services (IBM GBS). Consumer Products. Enjoy the ride!

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IBM GBS Interviews Consulting Case Interview 203

QEmploy

MAY 9, 2019

This article will look into the consulting industries current pitfalls and future in terms of transparency and digitalization. Interviews have been conducted with clients and consultants in order to give a realistic and broad outlook. This comes down to the automation of the recruitment process.

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Management Consulted

MAY 10, 2015

In 2005, the Hay Group was asked to provide the research for Chief Executive Magazine’s “Best Companies for Leaders” In 2008, “Senior Leadership Teams” an article written by Hay Group staff members was published by Harvard Business School Press. HAY GROUP INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. Practice Areas.

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Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

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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Case Interview Interviews B2B Culture 40

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

A case in point is WeWork, the provider of coworking spaces, which has grown its enterprise customer base in the last year by 370%. But our research and reporting show this isn’t the case. We’ve separately toured and interviewed principals in more than a dozen corporate coworking spaces in the U.S.,

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Company Case Interview ROI Engineering 38

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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Methodologies How To Case Study Case Studies 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 15, 2017

Most managers would agree that motivated, productive employees are crucial for organizational success, regardless of company size, industry, or corporate strategy. We used data from face-to-face structured interviews conducted in 1,293 private-sector workplaces across the United Kingdom. The question is how to motivate them.

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Research Case Interview Interviews Analysis 39

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2018

As part of our research for the book, we interviewed over 40 successful leaders of large corporations, startups, and non-profits to get their views about what it takes to become a leader. Take the case of Dominic Barton, who served as the Global Managing Director of McKinsey & Company from 2009-2018. Focus on measurable results.

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McKinsey Handbook Case Interview Leadership 53

Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2016

Bringing light to Africa , mobile banking to Bangladesh , low-cost health care to Nepal, or better school lunches to the American cafeteria: In all these cases, the private sector is a big part of the action. Know that funding alone is not going to solve the recruiting problem. But there is plenty of potential left to unlock.

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Talent Enterprise Survey Recruiting 53

Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

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Agile Software Case Interview Video 28

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

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

The challenge facing sellers of some genuine product — be it true late-night love or a Tiffany necklace on eBay — and the buyers in search of them is to prove that they’re not just full of empty words. ” In both cases the ad is a deliberate act of pointless excess and waste — money burning. .”

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Advertising Case Interview Recruiting Recruitment 28

CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

It has long championed inclusion as a partial solution to business challenges like turnover, productivity, profitability, and customer satisfaction. KPMG has made work-life balance a leading attraction in its recruitment efforts. Cases may be understaffed, creating extra hours and large workloads. Career Growth.

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Oliver Wyman Boston Consulting Group Consulting Bain 81

Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

Close to the Capitol, its office serves dynamic clients in a mix of industries including healthcare, aerospace, defense, and consumer products. The Washington, DC office’s recruitment team hires highly intelligent people who start as great communicators but are trainable. Lynn Street in Arlington.

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