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Consulting Case Interviews at Non-Consulting Firms

Tom Spencer

Consulting-style case interviews are highly effective, and the same format is being adopted more and more widely. The major consultancies have converged on a largely identical interview style, precisely because it excels in picking out the most genuinely capable candidates from the huge pools of applications received.

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Business Acumen in Case Interviews

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Question: First of all, I want to thank you for all the great materials that you have developed and posted on the web. I have recently received feedback from my final round interviews at McKinsey, and have been told that they would like to interview me two more times because they were not clear on some of my case solving abilities.

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Unlocking a Career as a Marketing Consultant

Tom Spencer

To do this, they should possess a keen understanding of the client’s target market and existing customer base, as well as the ability to recommend clear and actionable strategies to increase sales, expand the customer base, and develop new product offerings that will appeal to customers.

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Management Consulting

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They evaluate issues that the client is facing and help them develop action plans for improvement. Rather than addressing the operational angle of how to do it, we address the bigger question of what to do. Let’s use the example of a business that’s seeking to relocate. Let’s say a company is looking to relocate to a new market.

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MECE

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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. Some examples of non-MECE segmentation include listing customers according to: Hobbies and interests. Non-MECE Example: Hobbies.

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MECE (Mutually Exclusive Collectively Exhaustive) Copy

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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. Let’s use the list of people separated by their hobbies as an example.

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5 Entrepreneurship Skills You’ll Get from an MBA

Tom Spencer

Stories of Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates who dropped out of Harvard are constantly used as examples to amplify this point. The school environment helped them develop networks that played a key role in launching their enterprises. A few key examples include: Elon Musk , founder of SpaceX, has an MBA from Wharton.

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