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How Do Consultants Stay Organized Before Creating Client Deliverables?

Steve Shu Consulting

Individual consultants and engagement managers usually develop their own ways of organizing information. Develop interview guides according to the problem solving structure and conduct interviews with the interview guides in mind. Take raw notes roughly in line with the interview guides.

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Navigating the Case Interview

Tom Spencer

The journey to management consulting has many pitfalls that a candidate needs to navigate. Along the way, every candidate will encounter the case interview. As monstrous as it may look, it is said that the case interview reflects the reality of day-to-day consulting. Case interview – what is it and why does it exist?

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How to Succeed in the New Age of Interviews

Tom Spencer

The cover letter is the most important of these initial documents. A desired response from a recruitment manager would be “most cover letters I’m falling asleep. You want every sentence the manager reads to be a “wow” sentence. If you continued to impress in step two, you’ll secure yourself an interview with a real human!

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Using Case Interview Prep for Non-Consulting Offers

CaseInterview.com

Here area couple of success stories received from readers who used case interview preparation techniques for securing an offer outside of consulting. Success Story: I would like to share my positive experience of a business case interview, thanks to your website! You get then 5 minutes to present your conclusions.

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Solving Problems with the Hypothesis-based Approach

Tom Spencer

The investigative approach generally involves: Collecting and analyzing data Understanding key issues Identifying and developing solutions In contrast, the hypothesis-based approach to problem solving is appropriate where the opportunity is unstructured and unique and does not have an obvious solution. The HBPS process has five key steps.

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New Meets Traditional: How Project Teams Benefit From More Options 

PM Alliance

This desire for a truly hybrid experience extends to project management, where project teams and stakeholders face a growing need to strike a similar balance within processes and workflows as new technologies and new ways of working change how activities are carried out.

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Five strategies to hone your project management skills

Jacq Hackett Consulting

As a consultant, your working life now revolves around projects and one of your key roles is project manager. You need to become very good at this because poor project management skills will mean your consulting career is very short lived. Excellent organisation and communication skills are at the core of great project management.

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