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How to Interpret Charts During Case Interviews

Tom Spencer

A vast portion of a management consultant’s career is spent analyzing data, summarizing information, extracting insights, and helping to convert knowledge to action. So, a few minutes into your case interview, the recruiter slides a chart across the table and asks what you can tell from that particular exhibit.

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From Case Interview Mistakes to Bain Offer

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I interviewed with a number of top firms, and despite feeling well prepared, I wasn't invited to the next round. The first key insight that I got from your resources was the importance of understanding how consultants (the interviewers) think. I had thought doing 7 or 8 'live' cases was good practice.

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How to avoid being blacklisted from consulting (or any other) recruiting

Tom Spencer

Offer to Buy Coffee in an Informational Interview. The worst case scenario is that the recipient thinks, “oh wow I don’t even know this person and he has the audacity to send me his resume”. The reality of the situation is that even if they think this is the case, they open the resume 99% of the time. Image: Pexels.

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MECE

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It can help you eliminate confusion and focus on key data that points the way toward success.The MECE principle suggests that to understand and fix any large problem, you need to understand your options by sorting them into categories that are: Mutually Exclusive– Items can only fit into one category at a time.

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Six Consulting Offers from Toronto

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I found it several months ago and started prepping immediately and had done 40-50 practice interview cases before recruiting season. I must have called everyone I knew in consulting to give me a case to solve every weekend (Phone/ Webcam prep interviews too!) Practice really does make perfect.

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Management Consulting Salary Guide for 2019

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Junior consultants (recent college or MBA programs) fuel the collection and analysis of data. Project leaders and partners mainly oversee these operations and interpret the data to provide solutions to clients. Some consulting firms recruit individuals quite early. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton Business School).

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MECE (Mutually Exclusive Collectively Exhaustive) Copy

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It can help you eliminate confusion and focus on key data that points the way toward success. In case interviews, the MECE principle is a valuable tool for creating management consulting firms that break down complicated problems into basic components you can evaluate and help you get to the root of the problem.