Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

You have a superpower because of how well you understand the hearts and minds of everyone in your client system which can also be your Achilles heel. The first step towards managing your empath abilities and keep them working for you is to own that you are an empath and learn how to set boundaries around your work.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Just like I had to wait, you will have to wait to find out how that story ends. I have been training for over seventeen years now. It turns out that preparing for case interviews is fairly similar to preparing for Taekwon-Do Competitions. But through my training and intense focus, I blocked out all distractions mentally.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 12, 2020

How to frame my products and services in such a way that they will be irresistible to executive clients?". If so, you're gonna love today's training on how to design consulting offers.that convert. I've been asked quite a bit about offers and how to make relevant offers, particularly in crazy times, like now.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I was reading an email from a member of my case interview preparation community that had recently gotten offers from Bain and Booz Allen Hamilton. He made one particular comment that triggered a thought in my mind on how to think in a more structured and analytical way. that's 200 hours of case interview practice time.

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Management Consulted

JUNE 23, 2015

In May, we launched the Consulting Case Interview Bootcamp – Online. But today, we’re putting all of that activity on pause because we’ve completed a huge undertaking – the launch of the Consulting Fit Interview Bootcamp – Online. Over the years, we’ve made a huge discovery. The problem?

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 17, 2020

There’s a big debate going on right now about when and how to reopen the economy. As some of you know, by “day,” I write and teach my students on CaseInterview.com about how to have a successful career. In this case, the patient needs supplemental oxygen and immediate transport to a hospital for a higher level of care.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

I have previously been interviewing with several of the big firms but without success (especially in the case interview part). Without the methods presented in your training videos and other material I doubt that I would have been able to get this offer. My Reply: Congratulations on your McKinsey Offer.

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Case Interview McKinsey Interviews Bain 40

CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Just like you read what I write to pick up tips, strategies, and "clues" to how to succeed in case interviews , consulting, and, to some extent, life, I do the exact same thing by reading about and learning from others. He was in the training room, being iced all day and presumably taking pain medications.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 21, 2013

Andy had failed a case interview with one firm but had a confirmed chance with McKinsey London, and he didn’t want to walk away without the offer. It also represents an exciting new moment for us – the first in a series of video interviews we’ll be posting on the site. Jenny Rae: Hi Andy, how are you?

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

To check out our London video with in-person testimonies (with awesome accents), make sure to read on to the end of the article… The trip started off on the right note – Michelle got her first-ever upgrade to First Class. The case cracking session was most insightful. We’ll blame it on jet lag.

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Case Interview Consulting Interviews Groups 100

Management Consulted

JUNE 26, 2016

Today, we continue Part 2 (see Part 1 here ) of our interview with Charlie, an experienced Harvard grad who took an unusual path into healthcare consulting, yet leveraged his experience and hard prep work into an offer at Putnam. And I think I have the gist of getting a case down, as well as understanding those details.

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Healthcare Case Interview Consulting Interviews 140

CaseInterview.com

JUNE 24, 2019

Below is a success story and prep tips from a student who has two MBB offers as well as my advice on how to chose between the two offers (a very nice problem to have). As I started the interview process, I looked over some of the other resources that are out there. Do you have any advice on how to make this decision?

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Often, there are dozens of industry reports to read, dozens of client materials to review, and entire stacks of practice development training materials geared around a particular kind of problem. For example, the McKinsey "manual" on how to conduct layoffs in a Fortune 500 company is a 1,000-page manual. I am not kidding.).

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Consulting Case Interview McKinsey Interviews 56

CaseInterview.com

APRIL 29, 2019

Being insightful in a case interview is an important skill, especially as you get in more competitive environments (like a final round interview). How do we fix this problem? Do we need better training?". How to Become More Insightful? and then just move on with the rest of the case.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

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. And how do I improve on this aspect of the case? analytical, i.e. structuring of a problem.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 30, 2019

In any case, I have a question for you regarding Consulting vs. industry. How accurate is that in practice? The experience in consulting is more akin to CEO-in-training-type experiences. In which case, it's a human resources issue. In which case, it's a human resources issue. It was interesting and very concise.

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Management Consulted

MAY 25, 2014

GALLUP CONSULTING INTERVIEWS AND CULTURE. He developed research methods and programs for the television and movie industry to help clients determine advertising effectiveness and how to identify what the market wanted to watch in film and television. Bilingual Outbound Interviewer. Outbound Interviewer.

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The Fearless Marketer

MARCH 26, 2018

I’m working with a client right now who does high-end sales training. In the course of our conversations, he mentioned that 82% of his clients got a 10:1 ROI on their training investment. Instead, the home page of his site mentioned general ideas about the value of their sales training. How do you structure your guarantee?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 10, 2017

Related Video. See More Videos > See More Videos > We have worked with several companies in B2B industries to use Microsoft Workplace Analytics as part of a broader effort to improve sales effectiveness. Consider the case of a company selling basic supplies to businesses. The 8 Types of Salespeople.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 14, 2018

This study uses two rounds of interviewing to identify what the Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman describes as the “inside view” and the “outside view” of the phenomenon. Second, 185 seasoned expert observers were interviewed in China to identify the outside view on the phenomenon. Related Video.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2017

But how to keep educating ourselves is a complicated question. But in many cases, professionals face a more ambiguous situation: having an MBA may be considered a selling point, but it’s rarely required for a particular job. How do you learn best? We all know that in the modern economy, we can’t just stop learning.

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Education Case Interview Course ROI 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

Related Video. To prove this, ING made every employee at its headquarters (nearly 3,500 people) re-interview for their job. In fact, in many cases the employees’ skill sets were still highly relevant. A Quick Introduction to Agile Management. The system that's changing the way we work. Go and See.

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Agile Software Case Interview Video 28

Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

” In these situations, advocating greater patience or more persuasive business cases isn’t likely to help. How to make your company more nimble and responsive. Perhaps my journey to agile will help you figure out how to begin your own. Learn and experience how agile works. What can I do?” Insight Center.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

One question asked of Gold Medalist Jordyn Wieber was, "When did you first start doing gymnastics, and how much do you train?". If I told a room full of my old McKinsey colleagues that Jordyn Wieber, who is now 17 years old, starting doing gymnastics at 4 years of age and trains around 5 hours a day, I kid you not.

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Case Interview Resumes Interviews Training 71

Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2017

Learning how to speed up growth to increase prosperity of this massive middle would have immeasurable societal value. Our Scalerator is critical not only for stimulating new growth, but also for demonstrating to local leaders that with intense doses of scale-focused training, mentoring and simple cheerleading, growth can be the new normal.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

and more importantly, how to prevent that from happening. The way I acquired the necessary skills was done in four ways and over three months: 1) Getting consultants to give some cases. 3) As I did not have any access to practice partners, it was amazing to listen to cases (4-5 times) and it worked!

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Case Interview Interviews McKinsey Bain 49

CaseInterview.com

JUNE 24, 2019

What follows is case interview preparation tips from a CaseInterview.com student that received 2 MBB offers without live practice and a follow-up from me where I offer more advice on the proper mind-set for case interview preparation. 2) Read a lot about consulting. 3) Listened again and again to LOMS.

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Case Interview Interviews Bain McKinsey 40

CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

While that has been a great experience, I ultimately found my greatest training and instruction in how to prepare for case interviews from your website and materials. After submitting my applications for summer internship between my junior and senior years, I was lucky to get first round interviews with all three firms.

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Case Interview McKinsey Interviews Bain 40

CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Engineers don’t grasp how making a single engineering change might cause a customer training and education issue. If you found this post useful, I suggest becoming a registered member (it's free) to get access to the materials I used to pass 60 out of 61 case interviews , land 7 job offers, and end up working at McKinsey.

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Case Interview How To Interviews Finance 69

CaseInterview.com

JUNE 24, 2019

I received this email from a CaseInterview.com student that recently had a final round interview with BCG and got stuck on the questions in this round. What follows is this student’s story as well as my advice on how to regain confidence before their next case interview. Yesterday I had the final round interview.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 26, 2020

In this video tutorial, I'll show you how to get into writing flow so that you can finally launch your business, have a website that reflects the depth of what you bring the table and make money doing what what you love. So one of the challenges, all of us consultants face is that we are trained in corporate speak.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 22, 2020

Each public health department's objective is to reduce COVID-19 cases in their county. Let’s walk through how this can be problematic. Nobody can say, “I am responsible for the Victor Cheng case. In the case of U.S. However, with pandemics, there can be enormous surges in cases and the need for contact tracing manpower.

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Case Interview Sales Engineering Interviews 75

CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

I did not know how to prepare and I ended up getting the LOMS one day before my interview. Out of the two case interviews , I aced one and failed the other, so I did not get an offer. They sent me a written case first. The first of them was Bain. You can sign up at: www.caseinterview.com/new-consultant.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The teams I was on weren't opposed to using frameworks, it's just that client problems are often complicated and unusual - so standard frameworks don't often apply (thus the importance of learning how to do custom issue trees). All training is done cross-border. My Associate training was in Switzerland, with many Germans, and French.

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McKinsey Case Interview Policies Interviews 40

Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

Watch the 2 minute video above to learn how to use this list of consulting lead generation methods effectively!). You can download my free high-converting Consultant Homepage Template that comes with my free email course on how to build a system for getting more consulting clients online. Creating a video course.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2018

companies offer online training for their employees, making more information accessible to them than ever before. Yet, unfortunately, this does not appear to be the case. On the corporate side, working professionals apply only about 15% of what they learn in many corporate training and development programs in many cases.

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Productivity Case Interview Training Training 46

CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Robust training programs and fun company social life take the edge off hard work and long hours, but it’s “up or out” for consultants (“up or out” refers to the mentality that a consultant needs to reach a certain level in the company by a certain time or they could be let go). LEK operates in an intense, associate-heavy case team structure.

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