808: Advice for deeply experienced candidates (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
For this episode, let's revisit a Case Interview & Management Consulting classic where we look at the profile of an older MBA candidate who has extensive oil and gas expertise. We offer some counter-i...
20 Elo 202510min
807: Never start training with McKinsey cases (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
This is a mistake common to most case interview candidates. They start with the McKinsey approach. This is a very, very bad idea. McKinsey cases are those were the interviewer leads the case. If you a...
18 Elo 202514min
806: Networking with more junior consultants (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
We use the terms junior consultants to loosely refer to anyone at the engagement manager level and below: senior associates, associates, consultants and analysts. Our history of working with so many c...
13 Elo 202511min
805: Taking resume feedback (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
Taking resume feedback is one of the most fundamental steps as you begin your application process and case interview preparation. If done badly, no matter how well you practice for cases, you will not...
11 Elo 202514min
804: Stressful interview situations (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
This podcast examines the typical tell-tale signs candidates show when placed under stress in a case interview and offers suggestions on how to manage these situations. The key to managing this proble...
6 Elo 202515min
803: Invisible presentation technique (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
Solving a case while talking an interviewer through your thinking (written or otherwise) is, for the interviewer, a little like trying to understand a presentation without seeing the slides. Or at the...
4 Elo 202511min
802: Confidence and content traps in case interviews (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
This podcast is about the impact of confidence on cases and the importance of avoiding the content trap. We use simple ratios to explain why you need to be confident and how the content-trap sinks man...
30 Heinä 202510min
801: Structure fails at 60% McKinsey cases (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
At least 90% of aspiring management consultants assume that all McKinsey et al cases MUST be solved with frameworks. That is a dangerous myth. At least 60% of all McKinsey full cases (we are not refer...
28 Heinä 202511min
