Hi,
I have a management consulting interview in 3 days due to a expedited recruiting process. It's a first round consisting of two one hour long interviews - I don't know if that will be one case or 2 cases.
Having briefly googled what is required, it has only made me more stressed seeing people say practice makes perfect and people prepping for months on end.
How can I sufficiently prep in 3 days? Any advice is welcome.
I bought Case in Point and I'm going to use Youtube videos - but beyond that I have no idea.
Couple of extra points:
- I have no prior experience with consulting interviews or cases
- The interview outline says 'no business knowledge required' in regards to the case
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but three days is going to be tough. For context it's said preparing within 2 weeks is hard.
That said I think you're taking the right path. The number one most valuable thing you're not doing would be to do some practices with someone who has successfully done the process - if you can find someone. Apart from that try to get a couple of frameworks and then practice applying them.
While it might say 'no business experience necessary' they consider many business concepts 'common sense' like profit = revenue - costs, competitive reactions, etc so don't expect a pass if you don't know those.
I've obviously try to prepare myself best but should I make the interviewer aware of the interview was short notice and I haven't had time to prep sufficiently?
I already hinted strongly to it during my first interview when I said I only started interviewing VERY recently and avoided milk round all together.
Hmm, difficult one...
Hasn't it always been your dream to be a consultant? Why weren't you prepared already? (An interviewer might say)
On balance, I might mention at the start that it was very short notice. I would not mention it at all after that (e.g. I bet I could have got that with more prep) or it makes it sound like an excuse.
Ideally you'd get someone else's opinion who done the job.
Even if the interview is short notice, the people who typically get these jobs start preparing long before interviews roll in - because they're committed to landing them. I'd concur with reasonableman on the fact that 3 days is hardly enough time and it'll be very tough for you to learn everything you need to, unless you are a natural at cases.
I wouldn't say I'm bad at them over the little practice I've done with a friend. I don't believe I'll be able to learn these frameworks to a level where I can use them as second nature.
My current game-plan is to learn some basic formats for various question types that I can use to add structure, then use my intuition from there. Are there any frameworks I should look at in use to structure my case?
A good case interview doesn't rely on frameworks - it relies on being able to craft a new one specific to the case on the spot.
Most mediocre case interviews rely on frameworks, and most of those candidates don't get offers.
That being said, here are some resources to start thinking about some frameworks: Victor Cheng (flip through his stuff) - LOMS is great, case interview secrets is already Case in Point by Marc Costentino
It's been three days - how'd it go?
I did good on the fit side but not so great on the case lol. I was told I did 'OK' so I guess a lot more practice is needed. Honestly seems banking is easier to break than consulting.
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