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The Right Attitude for Case Interviews

CaseInterview.com

Email: My success is really your success at case preparation. Preparation: - LOMS and McKinsey's Problem Solving Test for the case studies (four weeks). Personally, I found the best case interviews [ in LOMS ] to be the most helpful. This understanding gave me confidence and peace during the interview process.

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Before Day 1: Taking Advantage of the In-Between

Tom Spencer

You successfully interviewed for a position at your dream consulting firm, and you have received and accepted an offer. Maybe you interviewed in the fall but defend your thesis in the spring. Maybe you interviewed in the fall but defend your thesis in the spring. You did it! However, you have multiple months before you begin.

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How to Approach Experiential Questions

Tom Spencer

Inevitably in any job, internship, or graduate school interview, you will hear these words. While these questions might seem easier compared to that of business case study questions, correctly preparing for them requires just as much preparation. Preparing for this type of interview is like building up a library.

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Short blogging break plus preview of what’s coming up at Management Consulted

Management Consulted

Hi readers: I hate to pause the blog train, but for the next few days I will be traveling and enjoying the last moments of 2008. The “ultimate” interview guide – complete with fit/behavioral questions, sizing/quantitative questions, and brain-teasers. You can expect my posting to start again on Friday, January 2.

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The Six-Minute Hypothesis Rule

CaseInterview.com

Email: I am an MBA student at a leading Indian B-school and successfully secured offers following my AT Kearney interview and BCG interview for their [ City in India ] office last week. I had three interview rounds each at both A.T. Each person may (and probably should) have his/her own way of going about solving cases.

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London School of Economics Postgrad Talks About Life At Deloitte

Management Consulted

From conversations with him and hearing about life there in terms of what he was able to do, the travel and the work that he was doing with several different clients, I slowly became interested in consulting. Can you talk a bit about the support network at the Consulting Society and how they prepared you for consulting interviews?

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From Internship To Full-Time Job: The Best Way Into Consulting

Tom Spencer

Working 80+ hours during stressful weeks, not being home (or having any notable social life) between Monday and Thursday, frequent travel, and a high-pressure work environment can really take a toll on some people. There are lots of drawbacks to this kind of work that many people initially tend to ignore or brush off as “not that bad.”