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. You’re somewhere down there.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 3, 2023

People advisory consulting is a field that involves helping organizations optimize their human resources and talent management practices. They might then work with the company to design and implement an employee engagement program, or advise the company on how to improve its talent management practices. What is People Advisory?

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Question: I have been following your blog at CaseInterview.com and using your video for my case interview practice. I did exactly this in one management consulting interview and got dinged -- the biggest feedback I received was I lacked creativity (which I intentionally suppressed to make sure that I was not jumping around).

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Reader's Email #1: I have been practicing cases for management consulting case interviews for more than a month using your videos and on your Look Over My Shoulder ® program. [ I received this email nearly a month ago, so in total this person has been practicing for nearly two months before the final round interview.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 11, 2019

This caseinterview.com student sent me an email recently asking my advice on how they could practice and improve their performance in the problem-solving part of a case interview. First of all, many thanks for all your information and encouraging words on case interview preparation . the whole interview was done in 22 minutes.

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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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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. Once I graduated with my Bachelor’s, I was a financial analyst by day and managed a bar a few nights per week.

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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. Fortunately, a top management consulting firm is not the end all and be all. The key thing to do after a rejection is to reflect on the interview process and ask for feedback. Reading Time: 4 minutes. Refine Your Search.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

While this exercise won’t take a lot of time, it may be psychically intensive. Manage your reaction. When you’ve finished the interviews, look for themes and repetitive points (it’s OK to shed outliers as long as you’re sure they don’t contain valuable information). And end with a sincere thank you.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

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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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Especially if your first job is management consulting as you will be presented with many opportunities to jump into industry. For those of you in university, this is a great exercise to do prior to committing to a full-time role. My primary career philosophy is to manage my career like an experiment. Here are my 3 principles.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

For example, reading a few articles on the fundamentals of project management can help you build some basic vocabulary and identify best practices. This can help you identify times when you have managed a project and articulate those experiences in the language of project management. Learning new skills.

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Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2017

My company represents self-employed professionals across the country, and over the last seven years I have interviewed, coached, or worked with more than 200 independent management consultants. Translation: change management for IT projects. Exercise #1: Look at Your History. Exercise #2: Get Input from Colleagues.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 28, 2020

I’ve participated in several mass casualty training exercises (e.g., In several of those exercises, I had the opportunity to train in the role of incident commander (IC) and other leadership roles. At the very start of one of my exercises, all of our “patients” began screaming in agony and pain. Q: How many patients do we have?

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

JANUARY 17, 2020

The strategic planning process contains various steps, exercises and opportunities to develop a culture of alignment and follow-through within your organization. This resource will serve as a step-by-step overview for the strategic planning process. For more on how to generate alignment and buy-in:

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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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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 11, 2021

This can be a good exercise to do when working out your five-year plan. 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. Look for ways to grow.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Similarly, in traditional management consulting roles, employees often utilize the latest tools to solve their clients’ problems, often without considering the impacts beyond the client themselves. Projects have ranged from database management and data survey to impact assessment and market research.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

When you’re managing managers, your responsibilities are two-fold: you need to make sure they’re producing good work (as with any employee) and that they’re effectively supporting their teams. Here’s how you can fill in the gap and help your direct reports be great managers. What the Experts Say.

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Management Consulted

JULY 15, 2015

Interview Tips & Tricks. There is not one sure way that leads your application to be accepted to go on to the interview process. Again, depending on the position for which you have applied the interview process can vary slightly. Virgin even allows you to take an unlimited amount of vacation hours!!!

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Harmonious Workplaces

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In 1997, Jim promoted me from CSR (customer service representative) to assistant manager of Blockbuster within a few months just prior to my graduation from college. I also handled recruitment, payroll, inventory management, and other store operations. Here, the rubber met the road when I could take how I learned to train others at St.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 12, 2014

There are other options - including our “Consultant for a Day” exercise or the MC Consulting Bootcamps. An Introduction to Operations Management. Interviews with Entrepreneurs. Have you heard of mirroring in interviews? that will enable you to sharpen your business understanding for consulting.

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Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2017

One of the most exciting — and frightening — career transitions comes when you face the prospect of a management role for the first time. Whether you’re still in the interview stage or are in the wake of a successful promotion to leadership, there are a few must-know principles that will place you on a successful path.

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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

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

guided interview prep homework and practice plans. We had to up the ante…free ourselves from the confines of a book…so that we could blast open the most valuable vault in the history of consulting interview prep. 200+ cases classified by interview round (1 and 2) so you can tailor your practice progression.

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Banking Case Interview Consulting Interviews 113

Management Consulted

JANUARY 22, 2017

Interview Tips & Tricks. Want access to Management Consulted’s exclusive list of consulting and post consulting jobs if so then click here to gain access to our job board. Are you an employer,recruiter, or hiring manager? 28% of Management Consultants Pursue Finance. Prepare for interviews.

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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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Deloitte Case Interview Interviews Case Study 100

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The interview is your first and possibly only opportunity to stand out. These days I’m spending a lot of time in conference rooms interviewing prospective candidates, from engineers to salespeople to a new director of marketing. Because personality, cultural fit, and first impressions matter. Even worse.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 27, 2014

A prospective management consultant without basic business understanding is like a camera tripod with 2 legs — it just won’t work out for you. Here, we’re not talking about actually developing case interview skills per se – we have a whole bunch of suggested articles at the end that will help you do that.

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 17, 2019

I interviewed with six major consulting companies + three others during my MBA program 1.5 I managed to get the interviews with all three majors with the help of my well established networking connections, but was again dinged by McKinsey and Bain. Going through interviews after being dinged before is twice as hard.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 22, 2018

My manager and team practiced an egalitarian decision-making process in which we would meet, discuss everything from content marketing campaigns to social media tactics, and collectively come up with strategies to move forward with. Some years ago, at a former company, I began noticing a curious series of events.

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Management Consulted

MAY 21, 2015

From this innovative and noble seed came a company that birthed management consulting as we know it. One of their finest moments in the early years was when Time magazine dubbed the firm, “the world’s largest, most prestigious management consulting firm”, at the end of the 1950s. Acquisition & Program Management.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 4, 2013

This is a transcribed phone interview between Rachel (name changed) and Jenny Rae – enjoy her insights about failing the first time around but coming back for consulting success and landing an offer with McKinsey in her senior year. I feel like that’s what impressed the interviewers most this time. Great, awesome.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 17, 2018

Internal and external analyses are performed, interviews with key stakeholders are conducted, and key strengths and opportunities are identified. Thus, managing people and their EQ will become increasingly important in setting the direction of organizations. Where are we now? The proliferation of corporate data (e.g., Image: Pexels.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

For example, pushing for change without being told to can ignite resistance from supervising managers and fellow colleagues. This led us to wonder how organizations can exercise control over proactive employees without overly constraining them. How can top managers guide proactive behavior so that good ideas make it to the finish line?

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Management Survey Report Efficiency 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

In his 1974 interview with ABC News , science fiction author Arthur C. By spending up to 42 hours researching and interviewing a given candidate, we take great care to ensure that we find and hire the right people. Clarke painted a picture of how computers would change our way of life by the year 2001.

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Martinka Consulting

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The sub-title includes, “After years of exercise and healthy eating, a reporter’s blocked artery came as a shock.”. A health industry reporter, who exercised, ate healthy (a lot of salmon, oatmeal, and similar but with a passion for cheese), and paid attention to his health found out he had a almost completely blocked carotid artery.

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