93: Taking Resume Feedback
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...
14 Sep 201215min
92: How to Network with a Senior Partner
Networking with a partner is counter-intuitive. It is much easier to network with a McKinsey / BCG partner for at least four reasons. First, partners always return emails. Second, partners are general...
8 Sep 201213min
91: Networking with More Junior Consultants
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 279 clien...
2 Sep 201211min
90: Never Start Training with McKinsey Cases
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...
27 Aug 201214min
89: Communication does not mean FIT/PEI
We try to get our clients to understand that they are always being assessed for fit. Yet, many only pay attention to image and communication during the formal FIT/PEI interviews and then relapse into ...
21 Aug 201211min
88: McKinsey Corporate Finance
Finding practice material for corporate finance cases is practically impossible outside Firmsconsulting. We have prepared this podcast outlining a training strategy any listener could follow should th...
15 Aug 201216min
87: Five Phrases to Avoid
Communication and image in a case interview is governed by both what you say and how you say. It is true that how you say something tends to carry more weight. However, in some case, certain phrases s...
9 Aug 201215min
86: Using Storytelling In Cases
Storytelling is a very powerful technique to ensure someone remembers you after an interview. In fact, even when we screen people at Firmsconsulting today, we use this technique I applied as a partner...
3 Aug 201225min
