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Case Interview Practice Tip – Record Yourself and Listen to Your Performance

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Recently a CaseInterview.com student sent me this case interview practice suggestion about recording and then analyzing your own performance in a case interview. One of my case practice partners told me about it and we have both (separately) purchased it. Then I listen to my own performance on the case.

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BCG Lateral Hire

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Question: I recently completed six interviews with BCG and am about to receive my offer to join them as a Project Lead. I found your case study videos very useful, as is the one-page framework handout, to prepare me for the interviews. Read Our Privacy Policy. It's a good trade. No, Thanks!

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What is a Case Interview?

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What you will learn: Learn the basics of a case interview – what it is, how they are different from a regular job interview, who uses them, why they are used, and the types of case interview formats and the difference between them. Topics Covered: What is a Case Interview? What is a Case Interview?

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The Deep Flaw in MBB Strategic Planning

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When I first started recruiting for consulting jobs, an interviewer at Bain shared a story (arguably a legend at this point) about how Bain (or it might have been McKinsey) was asked to advise Motorola on whether or not they should enter the mobile phone market. In classic case study analysis, you’d ask them, "What are the market segments?"

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Output Gap Idiocy; Shaky Accounting EU and US Style

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The irony in this case is that Italy pleads for far shakier accounting than Brussels. Italy has accused the EU of using “shaky” methodology to evaluate countries’ fiscal policies, raising the stakes ahead of next week’s first verdict on the budgets of eurozone member states by the new European Commission.

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Conversation with Cartesian

Tom Spencer

Tom: Does Cartesian use the case interview in its recruitment process? How many interview rounds are there? However, the candidates are not fully judged on obtaining the correct answer, but rather the methodology with which they approach the scenario. There were two rounds of interviews. Adam Fraser: Yes, they do.

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Improving Case Interview Presentation Skills

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I am writing to share a method I have been using for case interview preparation. To try and make the transition from reading/writing to verbalising my cases, I have been using a voice recorder. 2) I have found this to be a good way to internalise the hypothesis -driven methodology in solving cases because it is 'proactive.'.