Tom Spencer

MARCH 3, 2023

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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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. Fortunately, a top management consulting firm is not the end all and be all. Reflect on the Situation.

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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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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

For example, reading a few articles on the fundamentals of project management can help you build some basic vocabulary and identify best practices. This can help you identify times when you have managed a project and articulate those experiences in the language of project management. Learning new skills.

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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. Manage your reaction. Many times clients have come back to me after completing this exercise and said, “Why didn’t anyone tell me this before? I can easily change that!”

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Especially if your first job is management consulting as you will be presented with many opportunities to jump into industry. For those of you in university, this is a great exercise to do prior to committing to a full-time role. My primary career philosophy is to manage my career like an experiment. Here are my 3 principles.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Similarly, in traditional management consulting roles, employees often utilize the latest tools to solve their clients’ problems, often without considering the impacts beyond the client themselves. Let us look at an example as a sort of case study. Sometimes, they also complete team-building exercises such as “Escape the Room”.

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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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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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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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Management Consulted

APRIL 27, 2014

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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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

ARE you an aspiring management consultant? 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? If so, then you’re in luck.

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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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Harmonious Workplaces

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In 1997, Jim promoted me from CSR (customer service representative) to assistant manager of Blockbuster within a few months just prior to my graduation from college. I also handled recruitment, payroll, inventory management, and other store operations. Here, the rubber met the road when I could take how I learned to train others at St.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

When you’re managing managers, your responsibilities are two-fold: you need to make sure they’re producing good work (as with any employee) and that they’re effectively supporting their teams. Here’s how you can fill in the gap and help your direct reports be great managers. What the Experts Say.

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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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Management Consulted

MARCH 28, 2016

From this noble seed came a company that birthed management consulting as we know it. From the very beginning, Booz Allen Hamilton has been involved in some very high profile cases. Beneath the board of directors are the senior management staff, including CEO Horacio D. Acquisition & Program Management. CAPABILITIES.

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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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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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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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Tom Spencer

MARCH 17, 2018

Internal and external analyses are performed, interviews with key stakeholders are conducted, and key strengths and opportunities are identified. Thus, managing people and their EQ will become increasingly important in setting the direction of organizations. Where are we now? The proliferation of corporate data (e.g., Image: Pexels.

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Management Consulted

MAY 21, 2015

From this innovative and noble seed came a company that birthed management consulting as we know it. One of their finest moments in the early years was when Time magazine dubbed the firm, “the world’s largest, most prestigious management consulting firm”, at the end of the 1950s. Acquisition & Program Management.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 17, 2020

My experience with crisis management comes from two perspectives. 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. The need for effective leadership is especially acute during a major crisis.

Leadership 88

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. No, Thanks!

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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. These tools are at the core of any successful management consultant’s problem-solving process. Case Interview Math. Case Interview Math. Clients don’t give consultants math tests. Hypothesis.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

In his 1974 interview with ABC News , science fiction author Arthur C. By spending up to 42 hours researching and interviewing a given candidate, we take great care to ensure that we find and hire the right people. We may have landed on a model that works only in our case, but we suspect that it can work for you, too.

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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. Once I graduated with my Bachelor’s, I was a financial analyst by day and managed a bar a few nights per week.

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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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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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Melissa Agnes

APRIL 11, 2018

One of the things that I love about issue management, is the opportunity that it presents to organizations. Unfortunately for Facebook, the Cambridge Analytica crisis it is now managing is the direct result of an issue that went mismanaged for years. But the thing is, this crisis was predictable. This crisis was foreseeable.

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Policies Media Culture Case Interview 64

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Even the HR executives managing the space were surprised by their bonhomie. 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. More villas are now in the works.

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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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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

As he got better at managing his own anxious impulses, the resulting atmosphere dropped the gauge on stress for everyone. Improved crisis management. One tipoff: several executives in the study reported getting feedback from colleagues that described improvements in areas like empathy, conflict management, and persuasive communication.

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Emotional Intelligence Case Interview Leadership Report 53

Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 20, 2021

If you want to work out more but find exercise difficult and boring, downloading a goal-setting app probably won’t help. Through case studies and engaging stories, you’ll learn: – Why timing can be everything when it comes to making a change. and, ultimately, in yourself.

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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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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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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2017

What should you say in an interview? Say, for instance, your dismissal was due to a personality clash with your manager or a mismatched cultural fit. This exercise will also likely provide job leads, he says. Interviews will definitely require a bit more care and forethought than they did before. What the Experts Say.

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