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5 Steps To Securing a Consulting Internship

Tom Spencer

Consultants and recruiters often spend no more than a few seconds looking at your application when shortlisting interview candidates. If you’re not as confident though, then it should definitely not stop you from getting your internship! Get comfortable with case studies and develop your own style.

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The Right Attitude for Case Interviews

CaseInterview.com

Email: My success is really your success at case preparation. Preparation: - LOMS and McKinsey's Problem Solving Test for the case studies (four weeks). Personally, I found the best case interviews [ in LOMS ] to be the most helpful. Consulting is definitely not the end-all, be-all. First is your attitude.

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Second Chance Case Interviews

CaseInterview.com

First, those who have the time and are able to devote it to case study interview practice have a significant advantage. The consultant walks down the hall to the recruiter coordinator's office. She says to the recruiter, "Hey there Amy. I gave her a quick case, and I think she's good. How's it going?

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Top 10 Consultancy Resources Websites

freshminds

From articles to help you decide if this career is right for you or to move from a firm into industry to what would definitely be useful for when you've got the job - templates for presentations and Excel models! Management Consulted This one definitely wins for most excellent pun! Though it isn't too expensive at $14.95.

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Become an Excel Expert! Top 5 free online courses

freshminds

Excel skills are the one thing which recruiters continuously say are very weak among new consultants. 1) Excel Easy - this is a good place to start for Excel beginners - clear definitions are given for all terms and acronyms followed by worked through screen shot examples of how to complete tasks.

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Advanced Case Tactics: Interviewer- vs. Interviewee-Led Case Interviews

Management Consulted

Interviewee-Led Interview Definition. Interviewer-Led Interview Definition. These are common for on campus recruiting where 60+ people may be being interviewed. As such, they use this round to weed out the people who can’t solve cases by making sure everyone gets cases that are comparable in terms of difficulty.

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BCG Practice Case Interview Session

CaseInterview.com

A CaseInterview.com student who received an interview from BCG recently asked me about how a practice case study interview works. Best case -- it's pure practice and nothing else. I've also noticed a trend of more firms offering practice case interviews with an actual practice interviewer.