The case interview: analytical, quantitative, creative, challenging... but isn’t that what consulting is really about? That’s why consulting recruiters use the case interview as a primary means of evaluating interviewees. This follow-up to WetFeet’s popular Ace Your Case® guide provides 15 more case questions that you can use to practice and sharpen your case-cracking skills. It is designed to provide more detailed explanations of different case types and offers recommended answers you can use to assess your progress. This WetFeet Insider Guide offers Fifteen more practice case questions that will challenge you a little more than those in Ace Your Case®. • Explanations of the different case types. • Sample questions of all three types of case questions. • Insight into what a case interviewer may be thinking when they ask certain questions. • Detailed examples of good and bad answers for each practice question, along with tips for improving your own answers and recovering from mistakes. • Insider tips for handling various case scenarios. »Download
All consulting candidates will face some form of the market-sizing case. Designed to test your facility with logic and numbers, the market-sizing case may stand on its own or be part of a larger case. Either way, you'll need to juggle your skills in quantitative analysis-and common sense. Fortunately, by studying up on the case process and honing your case interview skills through practice, you'll soon be able to impress interviewers with your explanations. This WetFeet Insider Guide provides • Fifteen sample market-sizing case questions representing a variety of business scenarios and industries. • Detailed examples of good and bad answers to each sample question. • Suggested frameworks for handling the various types of market-sizing questions. • Tried and true tips for mastering market-sizing questions. • Insight and explanations to accompany the sample answers, so you know why certain answers are stronger than others. »Download
For most consultants, business strategy is the fun stuff. It's where you really get to show off your creativity, along with your business savvy, and elegantly blend the two. But business strategy questions can also be the most challenging. Make a bad recommendation and you could run a company into the ground. With stakes this high, you better start practicing. Fortunately, by studying up on the case process and honing your case interview skills, you'll soon be able to impress interviewers with your explanations. This WetFeet Insider Guide offers • Fifteen sample business strategy questions that represent many of the scenarios you are likely to face. • Detailed examples of good and bad answers, along with tips for improving your own answers and recovering from mistakes. • Suggested frameworks for handling the various types of business strategy questions. • Insider tips for mastering business strategy questions. • Insight and explanation to accompany the sample answers, so you know why certain answers are stronger than others. »Download
Business operations cases test your practical abilities to get things done. From logistics to human resources to distribution to financing, operations questions cover the core issues that make companies run. But just because they're practical doesn't mean they're easy. Fortunately, by studying up on the case process and honing your case interview skills, you'll soon be able to impress interviewers with your explanations to business operations questions. This WetFeet Insider Guide provides • Fifteen sample questions that cover key operational issues. • Detailed examples of good and bad answers. • Suggested frameworks for handling the various types of operations questions. • Tips from real consultants for handling possible case scenarios • Insight and explanation to accompany the sample answers, so that you know why certain answers are stronger than others. »Download
The most dreaded part of the consulting interview: the case! Like it or not, if you’re hoping to get a job in consulting, you will have to learn how to handle the case interview. Although different firms and different interviewers have very different approaches to the case question, all of them use it as an important tool in selecting and screening out job candidates. Indeed, you may have to clobber as many as ten or more cases on the way to landing a job with a major management consulting firm. Fortunately, by studying up on the case process and honing your case interview skills through practice, you'll soon be able to impress interviewers with your explanations, frameworks, and graph drawing skills. This best-selling WetFeet Insider Guide provides • An in-depth exploration of consulting interviews, what to expect, and how firms use cases differently.Tips on surviving the case interview, keeping your cool, and impressing your interviewer. • An explanation of the different case types, classic examples of each, and what your interviewer is looking for in your answers. • Step-by-step lessons on how to attack the case question, including developing frameworks, recovering from mistakes, and using industry lingo. • Seven sample case questions you can use to practice applying your new skills. • Detailed examples of how to answer each type of case question, including how to choose a framework, key talking points, and sample interview scripts. »Download