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Note-Taking in a Case Interview

CaseInterview.com

Question: Thank you for creating the Case Interview Secrets videos and Look Over My Shoulder ® program. My question is related to note-taking during the interview. What I am struggling with is keeping up with the interviewer, and still trying to note down key facts. Some information is more important than others.

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4 Ways to Develop Practical Business Understanding for Consulting

Management Consulted

A prospective management consultant without basic business understanding is like a camera tripod with 2 legs — it just won’t work out for you. Here, we’re not talking about actually developing case interview skills per se – we have a whole bunch of suggested articles at the end that will help you do that.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

Last week we held an MC exclusive subscriber giveaway contest – entrants told us in 200 words or less how they became interested in consulting. The prize for best answer was a FREE Consulting Case Bank and The Consulting Bible 3rd edition – a HUGE giveaway – so we weren’t surprised when we heard from so many of you.

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Saving RadioShack

Tom Spencer

By comparison, rivals Amazon and Wal-Mart have continuously adapted and maintain a significant competitive advantage in pricing these products due to scale. In a competitive landscape fraught with declining sales of consumer electronics and falling margins, RadioShack has fallen into a precarious situation.

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Know Your Weaknesses

CaseInterview.com

If you’re not great at sales, find someone who is. If you find case interviews painful, you definitely don’t want to be a consultant. It’s not that these careers — surgeon, professional baseball player, therapist, physicist, consultant — are bad careers. If you’re not great at finance, hire someone who is.

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McKinsey Offer from Top 200 University

CaseInterview.com

I had my eye on management consulting for some time, so I decided to give it a shot. After talking with the recruiter, I was set up to do a practice case over the phone with an ex-McKinsey consultant. I prepared by reading Case InPoint. I really didn't even understand what interviewer-led was.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

Does Oliver Wyman really offer a “different kind of consulting”? Oliver Wyman’s strategy consulting practice has made waves specifically in the financial services sector , and beyond as well. Have an upcoming Oliver Wyman interview? They have served Global 1000 clients over the past 40 years. Website: [link].