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Launching the Consulting Case Interview Bootcamp – Online

Management Consulted

What started off as an informal blog about management consulting with just a few readers became interview prep sessions, resume edits, videos on YouTube and Vimeo, books and the presentations we give at colleges around the world. The case interview is the great equalizer. And after all that, even with 1.5M The problem?

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Nervousness vs. Confidence in Case Interviews

CaseInterview.com

I have been practising case interviews for over two months now, however, I always get a little tense when I am doing the cases. Please advise on how I could overcome the apparent nervousness and come across as calm during the other interviews. So this is why confidence in cases and in consulting is important.

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Can You be Too Prepared for a Case Interview?

CaseInterview.com

Recently I have received several emails from readers asking if you can be “too prepared” for a case interview. Interviewers do complain that many candidates are "too prepared," but what they mean by this comment is not what it seems. For years, interviewers have complained about candidates being framework-robots.

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A Career in People Advisory Consulting: Is It Right for You?

Tom Spencer

People advisory consulting is a field that involves helping organizations optimize their human resources and talent management practices. They might then work with the company to design and implement an employee engagement program, or advise the company on how to improve its talent management practices. What is People Advisory?

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The 6 Million Euro Man (or Woman): Sourcing Superior Talent

Confessions of a Consultant

Big Idea #1: Targeted Selection: Selection interviewing is a notoriously subjective process. A substantial body of research has indicated the reliability rate (the likelihood that two skilled interviewers will judge a candidate’s ability in the same manner) to be less than 50%. It’s based on a fairly simple premise.

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How has the pathway to partner changed in the consulting industry?

The Source

Or, at least, that used to be the case. Consulting careers today are much messier; consultants are no longer hikers progressing along a trail from A to Z, but must instead see themselves as explorers and navigators, charting a course for themselves through unmapped territory. …

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Second Tier Consulting Firm Offers, But Not Top Three

CaseInterview.com

I can't seem to get through my interviews with the Top 3 consulting firms. I have gone through a number of case interviews now, and have successfully gotten a few second tier consulting firm offers, and offers from boutique firms, ATK, Accenture, etc. However I can't seem to break through the Top 3. that's kind of obvious.).