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How to prepare for case interviews

Tom Spencer

Case interviews can be a hurdle or stepping stone at the beginning of your consulting career. The interview tests your problem solving ability, communication skills, composure and interpersonal skills. There is no magic number of cases one should do in preparation. Within the interview you need to act like a consultant.

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Consultant Marketing Pillow Talk

Jerry Fletcher

And the worst part is our guide may not recall blurting out the methodology or special ingredient or whatever secret should have remained so. For instance, the interviewer in a pod cast asks how you accomplished a turnaround for a client or what process was used to save multiple clients. It happens.

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Parthenon-EY Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Information and Media. Expect to be a member of two teams at the same time, as Parthenon-EY is one of a handful of firms that still subscribes to the two-case model (a great learning experience but killer for work-life balance). PARTHENON-EY INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. Note the diversity of industries Parthenon-EY works with.

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Is Your Business a “Service” or a “Brand”?

The Fearless Marketer

Instead, the new product is compared to what came before – in this case the “wired telephone.”. Once upon a time (in most cases, hundreds of years ago), these services were new and were touted as something truly different. By proprietary methodologies. But do you recall the brand of this cell phone? By what others say about you.

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A.T. Kearney Interview & Culture

Management Consulted

KEARNEY INTERVIEW AND CULTURE. 1997 – First Global Prize, an annual business school case study competition for potential recruits, awarded. Kearney boasts about its Fit Transformation™ methodology, designed specifically to align companies’ strategy, operating model, and people to bring lasting transformation. Automotive.

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Conversation with Cartesian

Tom Spencer

Cartesian is a specialist provider of consulting services and managed solutions to leaders in the global communications, technology and digital media industries. Tom: Cartesian provides consulting in strategy, execution and managed solutions to clients in the global communications, technology and digital media industries.

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Positioning Yourself As The Expert — How To Develop A Consulting Voice That Clients Will Listen To with Ron Carucci: Podcast #21

Consulting Success

We love being in the trenches with our clients, a case with every professional services firm. I began my career at a time where the consulting industry was getting a well-earned bashing by the media and by writers and thought leaders. The three of us who own Navalent are also practitioners. My first two books were about consulting.