Tom Spencer
FEBRUARY 29, 2020
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. The objective of the chart is to help you drive the case forward by approving or disapproving your hypothesis of the business problem. Search for trends or patterns.
Tom Spencer
JANUARY 20, 2018
What is a Case? Cases are a tool used by interviewers based on a business scenario; they go beyond behavioural and background questions to assess the actual abilities of a candidate by replicating the steps of a consulting project. Do not just repeat what the interviewer said. Structuring the Problem. Develop Hypothesis.
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Tom Spencer
MAY 13, 2018
As I have been asked by quite a lot of people to share some frameworks, I will use the next 3 posts to walk you through the most frequently used frameworks in the case interview. While you are reading those frameworks and related examples, keep in mind that no framework is the skeleton key to all case interviews.
CaseInterview.com
APRIL 4, 2020
I’m told there’s a saying on Wall Street that goes, “The trend is your friend.” To survive, and even thrive, in today’s environment, it’s vitally important to notice and respond quickly to major changes in trends — in particular, changes in customer demand. You can choose to go “with” the change in market demand or go “against” it.
CaseInterview.com
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Question: I have been following your blog at CaseInterview.com and using your video for my case interview practice. I did exactly this in one management consulting interview and got dinged -- the biggest feedback I received was I lacked creativity (which I intentionally suppressed to make sure that I was not jumping around).
Tom Spencer
JANUARY 5, 2019
Today I’m going to talk about a very important aspect of the case interview, which is your conclusion to the case problem. So just as you begin the case interview itself by structuring a nebulous business problem, you’re going to want to structure your conclusion as well. Data supported arguments.
Tom Spencer
MAY 26, 2018
For example, a link between procurement and manufacturing, or manufacturing and marketing. The way to analyse links in the value chain is to: Compare the same link in a value chain over time to identify trends, Identify and examine complementarity between one link and others in the same value chain, and. Case Prompts.
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