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An Insider’s Look at The Case Interview Scoring System

Management Consulted

Sandy Lerner, co-founder of Cisco Systems, once summed up consulting interviews perfectly when she said, “The first rule of any game is to know you’re in one.”. In the research you’ve been doing into the wild world of management consulting, you should have noticed how important the case interview is on your road to a job offer.

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Consulting Firms 101 Video Series

Management Consulted

In this video series, we compare the firms using 6 different metrics: Branding/prestige. Interviews. Big 4 Firms: Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG, PwC. There are 3 different tiers of consulting firms – Top 3 Firms, Big 4 firms, and Tier 2 firms – and there are pros and cons for working at each level.

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Consulting Case Anatomy – A Simple Breakdown

Management Consulted

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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The 5 Elements of a Strong Leadership Pipeline

Harvard Business

In a Deloitte study of 7,000 organizations this year, 89% of executives rated “ strengthening the leadership pipeline ” an urgent issue. To explain why, I’ll share some findings from a study my colleagues and I just completed at Deloitte. Paul Garbett for HBR.

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A Commercial Pilot’s 2-Year Plan to Break into Consulting

Management Consulted

Consultants are very risk averse and are very hyper focused on issues like GPA and other metrics – not because they are a perfect indicator, but because there are a decent indicator of whether or not somebody is going to be able to manage work that sometimes is really exciting, and sometimes kind of mundane. Definitely.

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Technology and Wisdom: Where and How Do They Intersect in Life, Work and Play? (Part 2)

Women in Consulting

Her talk was about “the third metric” in measuring success beyond money and power. When they needed to staff up a service center, he went about it in a whole new way: no JDs, no interviewing, no hiring managers. He mentioned that there was a full Deloitte study available on the work.). The results? 100% recruiter efficiency.

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Top Consulting Firms

CaseInterview.com

DELOITTE CONSULTING. Deloitte is ranked among the most prestigious consulting firms by publications like Forbes. Deloitte has some turnover and morale issues because of its challenging workplace culture. Deloitte stands out for an unconventional atmosphere with a youthful, vibrant community. Accenture, Oliver Wyman.