Management Consulted

MARCH 28, 2016

From the very beginning, Booz Allen Hamilton has been involved in some very high profile cases. Candidates will be interviewed on campus or over the phone. BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING . For the next interview you will most likely have several 1:1 interviews with different mid-senior level staff members.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 31, 2020

To secure a final round interview at Bain, you would have to be in the top 3% of applicants for that office. No one enjoys being turned down, especially in the case of a consulting role where a lot of preparation is required. The key thing to do after a rejection is to reflect on the interview process and ask for feedback.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Over the coming months we will be posting about the consulting interview. In this post we look at the purpose of the consulting interview. The purpose of the consulting interview is twofold. Why do interviewers use the Airport Test? Firstly, it is a test of client readiness. Are you ready to respond? Two reasons.

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Interviews Consulting Case Interview Exercises 60

Tom Spencer

MARCH 3, 2023

This might include taking relevant courses or workshops, participating in case competitions, or working on personal projects. Prepare for the interview process: People advisory consulting interviews may include both technical and behavioral components, and it’s important to be well-prepared.

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Consulting Case Interview Talent Survey 88

Steve Shu Consulting

JULY 4, 2017

Writing a job description that is needed and that I could fulfill – In some cases it might be easier to outline general problem areas, desired outcomes, and probable activities as opposed to using a very linear project approach with engagement workstreams. Surprisingly, one can go a long way with Powerpoint presentations.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 28, 2020

I’ve participated in several mass casualty training exercises (e.g., In several of those exercises, I had the opportunity to train in the role of incident commander (IC) and other leadership roles. At the very start of one of my exercises, all of our “patients” began screaming in agony and pain. Q: How many patients do we have?

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Case Interview Exercises McKinsey Interviews 65

Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The goal of this exercise is to: Build your technical vocabulary and identify best practices. As a bonus, this exercise will also help you craft stories for your interviews and could help you sharpen your resume by using more technical terms. Identify when and where you have applied certain skills. Learning new skills.

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Case Interview Resumes Course Exercises 88

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

It was simple – you wanted 3 things: more practice cases for use by yourself or with partners. simple and easy-to-use frameworks for structuring cases. guided interview prep homework and practice plans. Starting today you can get BOTH for the price of the Consulting Case Bank. What had they wanted more of?

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Banking Case Interview Consulting Interviews 113

CaseInterview.com

JULY 17, 2019

I interviewed with six major consulting companies + three others during my MBA program 1.5 I managed to get the interviews with all three majors with the help of my well established networking connections, but was again dinged by McKinsey and Bain. Going through interviews after being dinged before is twice as hard.

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Case Interview Interviews McKinsey Bain 49

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Here at MC, we had the pleasure of recently interviewing Josh and asking him how he’s navigated his interesting career path, and how consulting was a great place for his passions and skills to collide. I was selected to interview at both the NIH and the DoD and subsequently was offered positions in both organizations.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 16, 2020

1) Sample-Size Problem As of March 5th, 4 pm ET, the United States had: Total Cases: 164 Total Deaths: 11 Friends of mine have said, “Why is everyone freaking out over 11 deaths?” Only 164 cases, that's not bad compared to other countries." The closest proxy metric that’s easy to measure is # of NEW cases today vs. yesterday.

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Analysis Case Interview Interviews System 144

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

While this exercise won’t take a lot of time, it may be psychically intensive. In that case, clarify: I appreciate that feedback. When you’ve finished the interviews, look for themes and repetitive points (it’s OK to shed outliers as long as you’re sure they don’t contain valuable information).

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Can you talk a bit about the support network at the Consulting Society and how they prepared you for consulting interviews? When you actually began the interviews, what did you discover? When I first started doing interviews, I’d get nervous and make the answer a lot more complicated than then really needed to be. Peter: Sure.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 4, 2013

This is a transcribed phone interview between Rachel (name changed) and Jenny Rae – enjoy her insights about failing the first time around but coming back for consulting success and landing an offer with McKinsey in her senior year. What I look back on it, I think the way I did my cases just weren’t at the bar they had set.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The idea was to take the structure of a popular song, rewrite just one of the five aspects of the song as a SIMPLIFIED LEARNING exercise to learn the rules of thumb to learn the basics; then cycle through one at a time re-writing one piece, while keeping the others aspects constant. When a CIB first tackles a case, they usually struggle.

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Case Interview How To Interviews McKinsey 64

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Let us look at an example as a sort of case study. Sometimes, they also complete team-building exercises such as “Escape the Room”. I wanted to learn about DISI from firsthand experience, so I interviewed its two Co-Presidents. DISI provides students with plenty of skills and experiences to talk about during job interviews.

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Comatch

AUGUST 29, 2022

We complied- describing our butter use cases and agreeing to reduce our intake accordingly. You can do this exercise in a structured way using an “Ishikawa” or “fishbone” diagram. Tip: Make identifying root causes a group exercise! Ask people who are familiar with the problem statement but bring diverse perspectives.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

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. As we were looking through your responses, we realized you were answering as if you were in an interview – and that’s smart.

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

Management Consulted

APRIL 27, 2014

Many history, English, and art majors, engineers, and law students – all of interest to consulting firms, but lacking in business basics – come to us asking how they can develop their business understanding to prepare for consulting interviews. Complete our Consultant For a Day exercise. Start your own business. .

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Development Consulting Boston Consulting Group McKinsey 205

CaseInterview.com

AUGUST 15, 2019

In preparing for the case interview, there are a few skills and tools that you can master to help you succeed. In this chapter, you will learn what these tools and skills are and how you can utilize them to help you perform at your best during the case interview. Case Interview Math. Case Interview Math.

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Case Interview Interviews Data Sales 45

Tom Spencer

APRIL 22, 2018

Case competitions are amazing opportunities to demonstrate your ‘case cracking’ abilities in front of industry judges, quickly expand your network, and win great prizes. I even started one, which is now one of the largest case competitions in the Waterloo, Canada region. All case competitions are not created equal.

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Case Interview Benchmarking Analysis Industry 68

CaseInterview.com

MAY 22, 2019

There are lots of little things that separate a candidate who does a good job on a case vs. an excellent job. While it's not necessary to be perfect on every case, it is necessary to come pretty close most of the time. By the time you master the case interview, will you have any interview opportunities left?

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 17, 2020

I’ve also led mass casualty training exercises as a field operations leader and incident commander. In that case, you need to explain why everyone’s instinctive reaction is the wrong one. (I live eight miles from downtown Seattle, but not technically in Seattle). I’ll refer to some of these experiences in a moment.

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Leadership Case Interview Interviews Sales 88

CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

As a consultant , your "power" when working with front line employee-type clients comes from your access to senior management, your influence (or perception of influence) over senior management, and your ability to request senior management to exercise their authority to help you accomplish a goal. and it creates an opportunity for you.

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews McKinsey 45

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 10, 2018

A client (who I’ll call “Alex”) asked me to help him prepare to interview for a CEO role with a start-up. It was the first time he had interviewed for the C-level, and when we met, he was visibly agitated. Caiaimage/Andy Roberts/Getty Images. Let’s go back to Alex as an example of how to execute this.

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How To Case Interview Interviews Exercises 51

Management Consulted

MAY 21, 2015

Candidates will be interviewed on campus or by phone. Having retained the governmental work, keeping the prestigious 100 year old “Booz” name and now exercising its freedom to work with commercial entities working at BAH would definitely be a wise move in terms of exit opportunities. Exit Opportunities.

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Case Interview Interviews Resumes Government 100

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The interview is your first and possibly only opportunity to stand out. These days I’m spending a lot of time in conference rooms interviewing prospective candidates, from engineers to salespeople to a new director of marketing. Because personality, cultural fit, and first impressions matter. Even worse.

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Interviews Case Interview Resumes Sales 28

Chad Barr

MARCH 30, 2016

What results are described in your client testimonials, case studies and client interviews? This week’s tip: Use this critical exercise to calibrate your business GPS and the positioning of your company. The post Where Are You Going? appeared first on The Chad Barr Group.

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Intellectual Property Case Interview Case Study Case Studies 52

Harmonious Workplaces

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In 2001, Michael hired a no-name like me after an informational interview to become the Associate Marketing Director for GIA Publications. Among the exercises prompted by the cards, I pulled one that had me map my career like a river with all of its tributaries starting at a young grammar-school age.

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Hotels Training Training Exercises 52

Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

As an alternative, I’ve decided to walk through the decision-making process on how and why I chose to switch out of consulting, and the various interview processes I went through spanning corporate strategy, corporate development, and BizOps roles. Three Guiding principles for career transitions. It’s also a great way to broaden your network.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 9, 2018

During a recent time tracking exercise, I discovered I’m actually at the low end of the spectrum, spending about 1.35 But analyzing the emails I received taught me an important lesson about why it’s essential to exercise stringent judgment: each “yes” leads to a cascade of (typically unforeseen) work.

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Case Interview Exercises Interviews Metrics 41

Tom Spencer

MARCH 17, 2018

Internal and external analyses are performed, interviews with key stakeholders are conducted, and key strengths and opportunities are identified. Strategic planning aims to answer seemingly simple questions but these questions have many moving parts and demand a variety of inputs, exercises and assessments. Where are we now?

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Data Case Interview Financial Tools 87

CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

By far, the most valuable thing (for me) was the insight into the mindset of consultants and interviewers, which is what your emails provided. It affords a real sense of perspective for a candidate like me, so when I walked into the interview, there was nothing intimidating about the guy or girl in front of me. based resources.

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Case Interview McKinsey Interviews Cover Letters 40

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

A case in point is WeWork, the provider of coworking spaces, which has grown its enterprise customer base in the last year by 370%. But our research and reporting show this isn’t the case. We’ve separately toured and interviewed principals in more than a dozen corporate coworking spaces in the U.S.,

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Company Case Interview ROI Metrics 38

Harvard Business

MAY 21, 2018

In most corporate structures, today, recruitment for a position generally means starting with a formal list of tasks — the standardized job description — and hiring someone who can make a convincing case that they would perform each one. Recently a member of my team left to take on a different position in the company.

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Case Interview Exercises Recruiting Recruitment 35

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Solomon, aka DJ D-Sol, is known for his mantra of finding passion at, and outside of, work — and he’s not an isolated case. To validate and enrich our findings from public sources, one of us (Emilia, a former CEO herself) conducted private interviews with 17 CEOs of S&P 500, Fortune 500, and similarly sized U.S.

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Case Interview Leadership Interviews Sports 50

MishTalk

JULY 24, 2013

Case Against The Fed. Supreme Court Cases. What follows is a guest post regarding two important union cases that the US Supreme Court will hear. Supreme Court has agreed to hear two cases in the next year which will determine whether persons will be protected in their. In the first case, the U.S. Home Builders.

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