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Consulting Case Interviews at Non-Consulting Firms

Tom Spencer

As such, I’ve increasingly seen case interviews being used to recruit for corporate strategy roles in all sectors and business operation (“BizOps”) roles at startups. Now, case interviews for non-consulting industries tend to really intimidate candidates.

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What Does an Aspiring Founder Need to Know?

Harvard Business

The skills most frequently mentioned as crucial during early stages include product design and development, pitching, and assembling a founding team. In later-stage ventures, important skills include recruiting specialist employees, communicating vision to new employees, and managing company culture. ” Finance is less important.

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Conversation with 2020 Delivery

Tom Spencer

We’re not going to send you to Canary Wharf to work in finance. Being a small consultancy, there are also many internal business functions (such as the annual strategy process and product development) to which everyone contributes. We recruit for experienced hires on a rolling basis. We don’t have an oil and gas division.

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From STEM PhD to Federal Consulting: An Interview with Josh

Management Consulted

Well, I grew up in Bethesda, MD, and attended the University of Vermont in Burlington, VT for – BS (finance), MS (nutritional sciences), and PhD (cell and molecular biology). A few years later I was recruited for a position by one of the government consulting companies who had previously made me a contingent offer.

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A.T. Kearney Interview & Culture

Management Consulted

1997 – First Global Prize, an annual business school case study competition for potential recruits, awarded. Working anywhere from the strategy related to the business unit to corporate finance and strategy to strategic foresight, A.T. Consumer Products. KEARNEY INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. Sustainability.

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IBM Consulting Interviews: Navigating the IBM GBS Maze

Management Consulted

Finance Risk. Consumer Products. Areas like finance, accounting, communications, HR and marketing. IBM GBS INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. Example IBM Case Study question: Company X sells hardware, software and services. There are 6 specialty areas of Business Consulting: Business Strategy. Automotive.

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Cornerstone Research Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Consumer Fraud and Product Liability. Many former employees go on to programs in business, finance, economics and law. The potential for cross-office cases exists as well, where you will have to work with supervisors who do not know you and are often expect more of you than they do of their own teams. Case Studies.