Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

This can make for a very inhuman interview experience, but that is what the world is tending towards, so better get yourself acquainted with these technological advances. If you continued to impress in step two, you’ll secure yourself an interview with a real human! Just google STAR interview questions to find countless examples.

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Cover Letters Interviews How To Recruiting 68

Management Consulted

JULY 19, 2015

Ramit is a junior at Duke University who successfully aced his on campus interview. However, he did receive some puzzling feedback from his interviewers, leading him to contact Jenny Rae to guide him through how to use the input constructively for his final interview on site at BCG. This week I talked to the two interviewers.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Interviewing with NERA Economic Consulting? That of course, is a very broad generalization because, as we’ll talk about soon, NERA has 30+ practice areas ranging from bankruptcy to statistical sampling and analysis. NERA ECONOMIC CONSULTING. Well, NERA is no MBB. Although NERA is concentrated on the East Coast of the U.S.,

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 7, 2014

. BRIDGESPAN INTERVIEWS & CULTURE . Bridgespan’s Leading for Impact is a six-month-long course that brings together nonprofit executive directors/CEOs and their senior staff to build capabilities across the critical dimensions that enable nonprofit leaders and their teams to become highly effective. Networking Groups.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 13, 2018

As I have been asked by quite a lot of people to share some frameworks, I will use the next 3 posts to walk you through the most frequently used frameworks in the case interview. While you are reading those frameworks and related examples, keep in mind that no framework is the skeleton key to all case interviews.

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Case Interview Study Interviews Marketing 68

The Management Centre

APRIL 8, 2024

Chris Chadford, Learning and Development Manager at the Calico Group In this interview Chris Chadford, Learning and Development Manager at the Calico Group, shares his experience of developing managers so they have commercial, financial and innovation skills. mc: The programme is called the Leading Edge. What’s next?

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Tom Spencer

MAY 20, 2018

The reason that this framework is worth introducing is due to the increasing frequency of M&A cases confronting candidates in the case interview. Of course, financial experts have many detailed definitions of M&A. Yes, M&A is not all about finance! Here, you just need to remember this simple description.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 31, 2020

To secure a final round interview at Bain, you would have to be in the top 3% of applicants for that office. The key thing to do after a rejection is to reflect on the interview process and ask for feedback. For example, doing a course on LinkedIn on ‘ Communicating with Confidence ’ could help you develop your interview skills.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 6, 2022

By articulating the problems you solved in your resume and during future interviews, recruiters will be better able to understand your professional skillset. Student Organizations focused on Consulting, Finance, or Technology. These experiential learning opportunities are great ways to unlock new career pathways and opportunities.

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Finance Resumes Government Recruiting 88

Management Consulted

APRIL 20, 2014

” Here is one we got recently from John: A few months ago, I wrote you for advice in regards to resources I could use to prep for interviews in consulting. I then took another internship in finance with Merrill Lynch. I also explored other areas of finance and ultimately decided that I wanted to give investment banking a shot.

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Consulting Interviews Recruiting Recruitment 204

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Here at MC, we had the pleasure of recently interviewing Josh and asking him how he’s navigated his interesting career path, and how consulting was a great place for his passions and skills to collide. I was selected to interview at both the NIH and the DoD and subsequently was offered positions in both organizations.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Learn more about the interview preparation course and guide that helped land offers at BCG, Accenture, and McKinsey. Master fit questions, conquer case studies, and become the smartest interviewer in the room. Over 50 fit questions that you’re guaranteed to hear in consulting interviews.

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Case Interview Bain McKinsey Interviews 175

The Management Centre

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In the following interview, Yvette Gyles – Director at =mc talks to Gill Cameron-Waller – Policy, Insights and Communications Manager (pictured below) at Wealden District Council about their exciting journey: Gill, tell me about your role and what it is the Policy, Insights and Communications (PIC) team do at Wealden? How did they do it?

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Management Consulted

JUNE 8, 2014

The case study question is a fundamental portion of any consulting interview. Consulting firms used to say, “You don’t need to practice for case interviews – anyone can do them, even an English major.” Interviewers want to know you can see the problem and solution from start to finish. Be confident.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

I vividly remember the last consulting interview during first-year MBA recruiting season. I had managed to get interviews with three firms but only made it past the first round with this final company. Of course, I picked it up and received the gut wrenching words that ended my chances for a consulting internship that summer.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

If you know finance, especially the finance of retail businesses, that’s nearly impossible. Of course, I was admiring the company's financial management while also feeling a little chilly. In contrast, my favorite boardroom belonged to a clothing retail chain in California during the Great Recession of 2008.

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Case Interview Retail Finance Conference 59

CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

I spent the last five months working in a grocery store after having turned down several job offers in finance and banking upon graduation last May. I knew early-on that I did not want my career to turn completely towards finance or banking and so I decided to wait and search for other options. It works; your stuff really works.

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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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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

Successful Independent Consulting

OCTOBER 22, 2017

SpareHire is an online work marketplace for finance and consulting projects.” TopTal is a network of the world’s top 3% of software engineering, design, and finance talent — available on demand to help companies accelerate, adapt, and scale.” The company claims to have 4,000 professionals in its network, all paid on a 1099 tax basis.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 3, 2016

As a prospective consultant, one of the things that can seem the most mysterious in the case study prep process is wondering what the interviewer is going to ask you next. Many of you have heard about interviewer-led and interviewee-led case interviews and are wondering how to approach each one appropriately.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 13, 2019

If your interviewer works with insurance companies, there's a good chance you'll get an insurance case. For example, McKinsey Houston I've heard has more Oil & Gas cases than say McKinsey New York City - which has more finance, media, and retail cases. Sometimes it may seem like the interviewers are out to get you.

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Case Interview McKinsey Interviews Insurance 40

Jacq Hackett Consulting

JUNE 28, 2018

You realise it’s the end of the quarter and you still haven’t figured out a system for sorting out your finances. Of course, you absolutely need to be flexible and do what you can to support any shifts in the project. It isn’t displaying, and you’re worried, but you can’t figure out how to fix it.

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Management Video Consulting Finance 166

CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Your website, LOMS program and daily emails were definitely great resources that helped me learn more about consulting and more importantly, the case interview process. If you don't come from a business or business finance background, it is worth reading a book or two on financial statement analysis. Thank you!

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Jacq Hackett Consulting

JUNE 28, 2018

You realise it’s the end of the quarter and you still haven’t figured out a system for sorting out your finances. Of course, you absolutely need to be flexible and do what you can to support any shifts in the project. It isn’t displaying, and you’re worried, but you can’t figure out how to fix it.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

We’re talking about the basics like 100% employer paid health, medical, and dental insurance, but also fun stuff like an onsite gym and fitness center, free healthy meals prepared by an on-site crew of chefs in their corporate cafeteria, subsidized daycare, employee scholarships, and, of course, major restaurant discounts.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 11, 2019

While uncertainty is self-explanatory, if you're not from a finance background, the concept of arbitrage may be new to you. This is, of course, a pretty extreme example (designed to illustrate a point), but arbitrages happen around you all the time. It is something I call the uncertainty arbitrage. Your profit would be $850.

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MishTalk

JUNE 30, 2015

Greece Rejects 25th Hour to Change Course In spite of the pleas, Greece Rejects Creditor Pleas to Change Course. Greece’s government entered its final day in an EU bailout defiantly rejecting eleventh-hour pleas from its eurozone creditors to change course.

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Chad Barr

DECEMBER 30, 2020

It is the opportunity to review my accomplishments, key learning insights and course correction. family, business, finance, travel…) that ground you and make your journey meaningful, rewarding and impactful. November: Reflect often on your accomplishments and needed areas of course correction. Thank someone each day.

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Intellectual Property Travel Course Finance 52

Tom Spencer

APRIL 8, 2017

There are videos that use cartoons to explain how a transaction works, video courses in finance featuring “Fault in Our Stars” author John Green (his series of Crash Courses is both amusing and informative) and there are vloggers dedicated to easing you into the scary world of commerce.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 8, 2020

Interestingly enough, I was watching an interview with Bill Gates last night. His foundation has decided to provide the financing to build seven vaccine manufacturing factories — one for each of the seven most promising vaccines currently in clinical trials.

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Management Consulted

JUNE 5, 2016

If healthcare decision-making processes and drug development get you out of bed in the morning, or if you simply want to learn from someone who successfully navigated the consulting interview process just last year, be ready to pick up some great networking and interview tips for yourself. interview on Friday.

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Healthcare Case Interview Consulting Interviews 100

The Fearless Marketer

JANUARY 20, 2020

So, of course, I don’t know exactly how M will respond, but I am very clear about what I’m asking for. You’re writing a book and need to interview people: “I’m looking to connect with top-level leaders who have a reputation for shifting their culture.”. I know you work with medium-sized companies on their finances. Let me think.

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freshminds

MARCH 5, 2018

Investment banking case studies are a lot more quantitative and tend to focus on reading financial statements and based on a corporate finance deal e.g. a company going public on the stock market. The Ivy Case is a system created by a Harvard professor who coached students for interviews at top-tier consultancies such as McKinsey.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2017

I’ve also independently developed a number of online courses so have thought deeply about which kind of programming is appropriate for professionals’ needs. Through informational interviews and background research (such as scanning leaders’ LinkedIn profiles), try to get a sense of their educational background.

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Education Case Interview Course ROI 28

MishTalk

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Target2 Refresher Course Before showing the latest Target2 numbers, inquiring minds may need a refresher course as to what Target2 is, as well as the problems associated with rising imbalances. In this context, Italy, which had been on the mend since July 2012, has reversed course strongly in the last two months.

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Banking Government Course System 71

MishTalk

DECEMBER 31, 2014

In an interview with Rheinische Post newspaper published on Wednesday, Michael Fuchs also said Greek politicians could not now "blackmail" their partners in the currency bloc. "If Countries with current account surpluses are not dependent on foreigners to finance debt. Here''s the actual bluff. billion liability to the other countries.

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System Financial Course Finance 78

MishTalk

JULY 25, 2013

Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Via Mish-modified Google translation from Libre Mercado (LM), Enrico Colombatto, Professor of Economics at the University of Turin says in an interview "The only hope for Italy is the bankruptcy of the State". This Week in Money Interview. LM : Correct.

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