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. This is really important and it has an obvious insight for case interviews, which is that the conclusion you provide can have an incredible weight on your interviewer’s perception and memory of your performance.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 22, 2019

Below is a success story I recently received from a CaseInterview.com student about the success they had using a set case interview practice routine. Initially, not everyone realizes this is an important part of the interview to practice. The same is true for case interview practice.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Question: Thank you for creating the Case Interview Secrets videos and Look Over My Shoulder ® program. My question is related to note-taking during the interview. What I am struggling with is keeping up with the interviewer, and still trying to note down key facts. So, if in a profitability case, I explore cost and sales.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 15, 2019

Interview with Rachelle Stone. I’m super excited to have an opportunity to interview Rachelle Stone, one of my favorite Consultant Institute members, almost graduate. Betsy Jordyn: Welcome everybody, this is Betsy Jordyn. Rachelle, welcome. Rachelle Stone : Thank you. Good to be here, Betsy.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Individual and group comparisons are available. Receive Assessment Results Certified professional assessors and smart technology score participants’ behaviors against research-backed and client aligned leadership competencies required for success in your unique workplace culture.

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Ben de Haldevang

MARCH 21, 2017

I have asked my co-inteviewer to give his perspective on the interviews we conducted. A first for iROAM (inarticulate Ramblings of a Management Consultant)! Abhay Pande made some comments below which I wanted to share with you. These two aspects reveal themselves over the course of our discussions.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Job interviews typically begin with a set of seemingly innocuous questions unrelated to the job: How is your day going? It is commonly assumed that job candidates and interviewers both prefer to start with these types of questions rather than just diving into the more rigid and formal structured interview topics.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 11, 2021

If some of your goals are currently way out of reach, start on the path that is robust in comparison to the objective. Research is also essential when going into job interviews. Doing some research on who will be interviewing you can also significantly boost your chances of getting hired. Do your research. Look for ways to grow.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 15, 2021

BCG (Boston Consulting Group) potential test is an online test used in the first round of interviews. This test allows BCG to test candidates using the same test giving them a better comparison tool for evaluating candidate performance. What is the BCG Potential Test and Why is it Used? What is the format of this Test? First Name *.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 20, 2019

Yet, what about other graduate degrees in comparison to an MBA? Deep alumni networks that can help you score an interview and provide interview preparation. Robust consulting clubs that help you understand the consulting options and guide you from networking to interview prep to offer evaluation.

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LSA Global

MAY 26, 2023

Individual and group comparisons are available. Receive Assessment Results Certified professional assessors and smart technology score participants’ behaviors against research-backed and client aligned managerial competencies required for success in your unique workplace culture.

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 29, 2020

In comparison, over one million people died from mosquito bites. If you found this post useful, I suggest becoming a registered member (it's free) to get access to the materials I used to pass 60 out of 61 case interviews , land 7 job offers, and end up working at McKinsey. People’s perceptions of risk are notoriously inaccurate.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 12, 2019

Here's my comparison of consulting in a Big 4 Accounting firm and at BCG (note from Victor while this readers experience is specific to BCG it can. Members get access to 6 hours of video tutorials on case interviews, the actual frameworks I used to pass my interviews, and over 500 articles on case interviews.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 18, 2019

BCG (Boston Consulting Group) potential test is an online test used in the first round of interviews. This test allows BCG to test candidates using the same test giving them a better comparison tool for evaluating candidate performance. What is the BCG Potential Test and Why is it Used? What is the format of this Test?

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 29, 2021

PMs also work directly with the industry and community partners, requiring slightly more of a time commitment in comparison to the innovators. I wanted to learn about DISI from firsthand experience, so I interviewed its two Co-Presidents. DISI provides students with plenty of skills and experiences to talk about during job interviews.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

If you find case interviews painful, you definitely don’t want to be a consultant. In comparison, life is so much easier and far more successful if you pursue career opportunities that are in your “sweet spot” of skills. If you have poor spatial reasoning skills, you probably don’t want to be a professional baseball player.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 13, 2018

You can uncover this information informally or you can do interviews or a survey with those who represent your ideal client. Purchase : Your items for purchase are lower-price offerings, in comparison to a full-on consulting engagement. They may be more aware of what they want but underneath they have a deeper need.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

By comparison, rivals Amazon and Wal-Mart have continuously adapted and maintain a significant competitive advantage in pricing these products due to scale. Case Interviews Management Consulting' RadioShack had developed a reputation as the ultimate shopping destination for budding innovators and engineers.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 11, 2019

In comparison, consulting firms with high caliber consultants who are great at structuring very amorphous business problems have a disproportionate advantage in reducing uncertainty. By the way, this is why case interviewers evaluate not just what you say, but also how confidently you say it.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

They have a broader approach to consulting so you get to try different types before specializing, in comparison to the Big Four or boutique firms in which you specialise almost straight away. Application process: There is an extensive online form with more stages to follow, including interviews, tests, and assessment centres.

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Jerry Fletcher

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

What makes it more important is the ongoing comparison of results it affords the viewer and the efforts of the company to find and report on those points where the findings begin to diverge from previous norms. In the 2004 study23% of the people interviewed said they would trust someone just like them. Diverging Trust.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 18, 2018

This results in a misplaced comparison between the abilities of an experienced consultant and that of a student one. The comparison is misplaced because nobody would expect a student to work at, or even remotely near, the same level as a professional because they are students. It’s great CV and interview fodder.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Can you talk a bit about the support network at the Consulting Society and how they prepared you for consulting interviews? When you actually began the interviews, what did you discover? When I first started doing interviews, I’d get nervous and make the answer a lot more complicated than then really needed to be. Peter: Sure.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

1) In general, I recommend telling the interviewer you want "break down a number into its component parts.". In many cases, the interviewer does not expect you to know the optimal segmentation pattern. Quite often, the interviewer will just volunteer the segmentation of that number. When to Switch Frameworks.

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Both respond not only to direct, physical inputs (chemicals, illness) but more and more, to cultural ones, to the noise of comparisons and narratives. HT to the first few minutes of this interview.]. Instead, they are things that are possible to get confused about in the short run, but in the long run, they couldn't be more different.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 8, 2020

Interestingly enough, I was watching an interview with Bill Gates last night. As a point of comparison, Philips Healthcare, one of the largest ventilator manufacturers in the world, only produces 1,000 ventilators a week. Systems are short over one million ventilators that are expected to be needed this year.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 30, 2019

I received two offers recently and have also been given offer deadline extensions for them until later this week, which I had requested as a way to "buy" time: 1) to hear back from other firms I interviewed with, and 2) for the final round interview with my top-choice firm this week. some will speed up the process for you.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 27, 2014

Many history, English, and art majors, engineers, and law students – all of interest to consulting firms, but lacking in business basics – come to us asking how they can develop their business understanding to prepare for consulting interviews.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 30, 2019

I really didn't even understand what interviewer-led was. I passed the first phone interview case easily. I breezed through the cases and actually only stumbled during the non- case interview questions. I would strongly recommend LOMS to anyone preparing for interviews. I think we should interview her.".

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

As we were looking through your responses, we realized you were answering as if you were in an interview – and that’s smart. These days, it pays to practice being in “interview mode” so you’re ready for the real thing – whether it’s networking with a neighbor at Starbucks or sitting in the hot seat.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

As the next installment in our popular Firm Profile series, we take a look at the evolution, reinvention, and current interview tactics of one of the world’s premier consulting firms – IBM. IBM GBS INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. If applying online or through staffing agencies, the average interview process time line averaged 2.5

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

As an alternative, I’ve decided to walk through the decision-making process on how and why I chose to switch out of consulting, and the various interview processes I went through spanning corporate strategy, corporate development, and BizOps roles. To inform your comparison of opportunities, it’s helpful to consider a range of factors.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

In comparison, an equally skilled consultant from a different firm could say the exact same thing and have it be taken negatively by the client. Now you know why interviewers tested you on problem-solving structure so much during the case interview. Incidentally, this is why consulting is a relationship business.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 3, 2013

World’s lightest and thinnest circuits pave the way for "imperceptible electronics"; Man vs. Machine Comparison. For comparison purposes, a Facebook video shows " Humans are Awesome ". World’s lightest and thinnest circuits pave the way for "imperceptible electronics"; Man vs. Machine Comparison. Zero Hedge.

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The Fearless Marketer

MARCH 19, 2018

And it’s hard to avoid the massive marketing of this device and comparisons it to its closest competitor, the Samsung “Galaxy S9.”. Then, of course, with the iPhone, cell phones became “smart phones,” a whole new category with new branding opportunities. In 33 years we’ve gone a long way from “The Brick” to Apple’s “iPhone 10.”

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MishTalk

JULY 8, 2013

By this comparison only 2012 looks anything close to a normal recovery year. Wallace charts show non-adjusted numbers vs. the same month in prior years, and that is a valid statistical comparison. Lets also look at seasonally adjusted numbers vs. the prior month, also a valid comparison. This Week in Money Interview.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 3, 2019

Here are some questions to ask your recruiter, interviewer or APM coordinator: How long has the APM program been around? Here are some questions to ask your recruiter, interviewer or APM coordinator: Could you connect me to 2 or 3 potential APM managers? How many cohorts have graduated from it? How big is the average cohort?

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