750: Evaluating your firm's training (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

Last week, an associate we placed at BCG emailed with a dilemma. A senior partner and managing director of the firm was visiting her office and she wanted to meet him. Her colleagues told her to forge...

17 Juli 20133min

Going into interviews aspiring consultants will be relying an a huge number of people for help: peers, classmates, consulting alumni, consultants, career counselors etc. This podcast offers some simpl...

11 Juli 20136min

A steep hurdle for many candidates is knowing how and when to ask for information / advice from an interviewer. To help our candidates, we developed the barter system / concept to fix this problem usi...

5 Juli 20133min

Editing out cliches from Deloitte and Accenture resumes tends to take up the majority of time when we work with candidates from these firms, and the other accounting firms like PWC, E&Y and KPMG. Typi...

29 Juni 201312min

When learning cases, it is far more effective to watch a person on Skype or in person. The problem with merely practicing over the phone or another verbal format is that you cannot observe crucial man...

23 Juni 20134min

This podcast explains why neatness and writing style is so important. It is really surprising how little care candidates take in writing in an appealing way, considering that is all the interviewer ca...

17 Juni 20134min

Entering BBM with a weak school on your resume can create problems. Though, all of them tend to be created by the candidates themselves. These consultants tend to have so many incorrect preconceived i...

11 Juni 20135min

As counter-intuitive as this sounds, mathematical precision in cases hurts most candidates. Many candidates focus heavily on being mathematically correct because it is far easier to see if your answer...

5 Juni 20134min