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How to prepare for case interviews

Tom Spencer

Case interviews can be a hurdle or stepping stone at the beginning of your consulting career. The interview tests your problem solving ability, communication skills, composure and interpersonal skills. There is some consensus that a minimum of 15 cases will provide a solid foundation to tackle the interview.

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How to Find the Exact Words that Attract Your Clients (and Gets them Excited to Work with You)

Consulting Matters

What I'm NOT going to do is show you how to put sizzle around how to explain your methodology to your client that makes them sign with you on the spot because that is not going to happen. Clients don't understand, nor do they care about your methodology. This article is for you. Your shop talk is never going through their minds.

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How to Confidently Articulate the Value of What You Do

Consulting Matters

What you do isn't the same as your methodologies or tools. They are not enamored by your personality assessments, your coaching approach or any other your methodologies because they don't hire you for those. Clients will come to you all the time with requests for certain methodologies. Your value isn't found in your tools.

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Parthenon-EY Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

This makes sense, as Parthenon’s founders (and Parthenon-EY Senior Managing Director Bill Achtmeyer) are ex-Bain and the methodology and persona of the two firms are similar. PARTHENON-EY INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. You can expect these two interviews per round to be back-to-back and no longer than 30 minutes.

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Launching the Consulting Fit Interview Bootcamp – Online

Management Consulted

In May, we launched the Consulting Case Interview Bootcamp – Online. But today, we’re putting all of that activity on pause because we’ve completed a huge undertaking – the launch of the Consulting Fit Interview Bootcamp – Online. You have told us – over and over again – that you loved it.

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How To Write a Blog Your Ideal Client Wants to Read

Consulting Matters

Phil's run into a classic mistake, writing copy that us coaches and consultants are searching for and care (our methodology) about instead of addressing real questions that his ideal customer asks. Phil ended up discovering it's not what he is (mentor or coach) or what he does (methodology). The second interview is a CV.

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Launching the Consulting Case Interview Bootcamp – Online

Management Consulted

What started off as an informal blog about management consulting with just a few readers became interview prep sessions, resume edits, videos on YouTube and Vimeo, books and the presentations we give at colleges around the world. The case interview is the great equalizer. And after all that, even with 1.5M The problem? Who is it for?