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You are starting a management consultant? Do you plan to interview with top management consulting firms like McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Bain, Booz Allen Hamilton, Mercer, LEK Consulting, AT Kearney, Roland Berger or others? If you answered yes to both questions, then you are guaranteed to face several rounds of case interviews. So how do you answer interview consulting case?

When answering questions consulting case interview the most important thing all of this to demonstrate his intelligence and ability of the interviewer to solve problems. There is a good chance that you will not even produce an answer and will not be true. Often the case interview may just end up being a case study with the interviewer will take you to one of the many possible paths that allow you to formulate solutions to problems, give advice or assessment “ball park”.

With this in mind can never go too fast because you can ignore the important elements of the problem and take the focus is too narrow. Be sure to work at a steady pace, however, to make sure that you can at least give a definitive answer, if required by the interviewer.

Interaction with the interviewer and ask questions, to measure the extent of the problem or fill in missing information gaps. Often the specific details of the case will be reduced intentionally to see if you can determine what additional information would be useful. This shows that you both want to know, and thoroughly.

Do not be afraid to be creative because management consulting requires a large element of “thinking outside the square” and innovative ideas. Be enthusiastic, confident and comfortable. Always let your personality come through. You can get away track in the event of an interview, and I think that there’s no way you’ll make it to the next round, but your personality is what you will often be beyond the line.

A good point to make here is the importance of bringing structure to solve your problem. General methods and structures, such as porters 5 forces, Matrix BCG, SWOT-analysis, revenue and cost modeling analysis of the business life cycle, Mind Mapping, the key issues, gangs, and problem decomposition is a great way to bring the structure of their thoughts, but feel free to structure your decision in any case, you may recall, that feels good, that given the nature of the case question. There’s nothing worse than trying to implement some kind of framework methods to the problems at inactive or inappropriate context. It’s like trying to fit square pegs into round holes.

The last aspect that needs to be done from the standpoint of the appearance of your strengths. Companies hire consultants from different backgrounds and degrees, including engineering, science, law, business, economics, governance and trade. They accept those who show the right attitude and mind to work. Management consulting firm is looking very smart man, “generalists” in the competence and interests in different disciplines, and although the education or experience in one or two areas that they will provide better training and education to bring you up to speed. This is important, therefore, that if you are a company or person-oriented trade, you should be sure to indicate the ability of creative problem solving and the level economists to think outside the conventional number or accountant mind set of numbers. Instead of someone like an engineer needs to show the level of business acumen, at least some knowledge or interest in the commercial world. Playing on their strengths, but do not show the interviewer that you are only strong in dealing with one particular approach or based on one learning style. Having said all this, the number and math skills must therefore make sure that you can add, subtract, multiply and divide large numbers around in your head or on paper without using a calculator.