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Consulting’s Unofficial Interview Hurdle – The Airplane Test

Tom Spencer

There are many steps to take in preparing to apply and interview for a consulting position. If you are just starting out, you will find yourself editing your resume, preparing answers for experiential questions, and practicing business frameworks to use in the case interview. Rather, it can encompass the entire interview.

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Advisory Board Company Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Washington Business Journal Fastest Growing Companies in DC Region—2013. Finalist, Washington Business Journal, Business Philanthropy Awards—2013, 2012, 2009. Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards, Overall Excellence for Broadband Media (web only)— California Healthline , 2013. These interviews are usually held in the office.

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From STEM PhD to Federal Consulting: An Interview with Josh

Management Consulted

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. It was one of the first studies conducted on the newer, lightweight snowshoes and was cited in over 100 lay journals.

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Experienced Hire from Harvard breaks in to Healthcare Consulting (Part 2)

Management Consulted

Today, we continue Part 2 (see Part 1 here ) of our interview with Charlie, an experienced Harvard grad who took an unusual path into healthcare consulting, yet leveraged his experience and hard prep work into an offer at Putnam. And so when I ask questions during an interview, I can ask “What’s the size of your firm?

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How Research Says to Avoid Bad Sales Hires

LSA Global

The problem with hiring salespeople is the very fact that they’re salespeople – they are good at persuading sales managers in job interviews that they can do things they can’t. So when you’re interviewing candidates, you need to be able to winnow out those who only say they can – let’s call them impostors – from those who really can.

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Demographic vs. Situational Gravitas

CaseInterview.com

For example, if you take two identical resumes -- one with an obviously man’s name versus one with an obviously woman’s name, the man will get more interview invitations. Things like ethnicity, gender, height, and educational achievement determine how others perceive the validity of your ideas.

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4 Ways to Develop Practical Business Understanding for Consulting

Management Consulted

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. How to Write a Consulting Resume From Scratch. On Competition by Michael Porter.