Consulting Case 101 Pdf Download

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I will with month, as I was googling 'Accenture case interview', hoping to find some clues what kind of cases Accenture usually use, this website came first on google's search results:.Has anyone used this website before? I'm asking because they only, but hide the answers, and I have to pay to see their answers. Is it really worth it to pay 96 bucks for this site?

I mean they did a great work to categorize all the case questions by type and by consulting firms, but do you think it really helps to prepare case this way? Anyone please share your thoughts. Oh wow, I can't believe they put a pay wall up lol! I was using that site for case prep a couple of months ago and you could see all the answers for free. Honestly though, if you're practicing cases with a partner, just get one of you to make up the answer that you want the interviewee to get and make up some information that will lead him or her to your conclusion.

The answers they had on there before were pretty general, and I made up extra information when I practiced with other candidates most of the time.Best of luck. I have seen that site before, I posted a message there when I was looking for partners to practice case with a few months ago and got a hell lot of response (and spam emails too, lol). They used to be good and free, both the and answers. I don't know when they started to charge people money for access the case solutions. Others may have different opinions, but personally I think some of their provided answers are not well structured, poorly presented, they only have value in the sense that they give you some hints how to approach certain cases, but again there is no right or wrong answer for question.

Good luck in your case prep! Hey consulting4fun! I was just going to close my account here on wallstreetoasis. I got a job offer eventually at and one week ago, and am joining in Italy as of January next year!

Hope my reply here is not too late, but quite sure it is.The 3 books I had bought for were:1) Case In Point on (was around 40 USD)Feedback: Good resource, but overvalued. It didn't necessarily feel close to what actual are like. Good for practicing first round; but no more2) Case Interview Success, on aceyourcase.com (30 USD if I remember well)Feedback: 4 business frameworks that work for about all cases, great insights into how the process is. The author works for Bain, and it is very clear he went through all the rounds; his learnings are structured in the book3) Ace The Case (25 USD)Feedback: Was highly listed in google, website looked a bit crappy, book was even more crappy, a waste of money.

Though 25 USD was not a lot to get to know this.I feel I should write a little booklet about my experiences myself!Best of luck! Question about consultingcase101 ( Originally Posted: )Dear all,I would like to ask for people's views on a website called consultingcase101 and whether you would pay for their stuff.This is a website that is said to provide loads of case practice materials for something like $100 for a 1 year membership. I was thinking whether it is worthwhile signing up to them.Material deleted(To those of you who read this post earlier, I have been asked by the people involved to remove the material that was previously written between the dashed lines. Sorry for the inconvenience caused.Webmaster, if possible, could you just delete this post alltogether? I have managed to get the answer to the question I asked in the post so this has already served its purpose.

Consulting Case 101 Pdf Download Free

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Same here, I also found the resources provided by their website very helpful, not just for McKinsey PST, but also for consulting case interviews in general. They have created a highly-structured cross-referenced database of case questions and answers. I can see their way of categorizing case types is probably influenced by Cosentino, author of case in point, and they further expand Cosentino's 12 case types into 18 or 19, although there are certainly some overlap between the 18 different case types:add capacity & growthbusiness competitionbusiness turnaroundestimate/guesstimatefinance & economicsimprove profitabilityincrease sale/revenueindustry analysismarket entrymarket sizingmath problemmerger & acquisitionnew businessnew productoperations strategyorganizational behaviorPE & investmentpricing & valuationreduce cost. Hi all, I'm currently a US sector Healthcare Analyst with McKinsey, and have worked out of the New Delhi India office for 2 years before moving here to our new Costa Rican center as we're building new teams here. The procedure, test, and number of rounds differ considerably based on the position you are applying for.I can share my interview experience with you:1) They called 15 of us in for the joint Problem Solving Test at 8am, we all wrote in one room.2) Based on the result, 5 out of the group were asked to leave right after the test.3) The rest of us went on to individual cases.Note, I don't have a traditional consulting background, so this was a big challenge for me. I managed to get ahold of some older Harvard Business Case Study manuals from a friend (who himself was an Engagement Manager with KPMG, from a top Indian B-school). These basically gave general overview tips on cases, how to build assumptions etc.

I interviewed with Booz prior to this and BOMBED that interview, it was positively awful, they grilled me to death and I was not mentally prepared for it.I can share some of the cases thrown at me by McK, note, these will vary GREATLY based on the role you apply for, but they all test your ability to analyze, develop a concise thought process, and provide reasonable assumptions for your calculations.1) Easier one: What kind of fast food do you like? Ok, estimate the average daily sales for the KFC outlet down the road.2) Tougher one: Estimate the average annual health insurance premiums generated for all commercial health insurance companies in India, for 2010 (this was tough and i dont think the interviewer, who subsequently became my boss, like my answer). A friend of mine who applied for the full blown consultant (Associate) position in San Francisco was asked to estimate the probability of him meeting a celebrity at an airport on a Saturday etc. He was a Haas grad.A few points to keep in mind:- Domain knowledge is not necessary, you can answer the above without knowing jack-all about the industry.- In between, if you get a particularly tough interviewer, they will cut you off in mid calculation and say 'ok you just entered the elevator with the CEO, give me your pitch in 2 minutes flat'. That tactic is more applied to Associate and above roles.

Most of my colleagues did not have this happen to them for the Analyst position, but my interviewer did throw this at me, he told me I had 20 minutes to solve the tough case with full listed assumption, but came back in about 7 minutes and asked for the summary.If you feel its useful, I can share overview steps on how I anwered my case interview questions, though would like to inform you that they are definitely not the best way to do it, and there are always multiple approaches. They are basically testing how you think on your feet and what assumptions you come up with.Feel free to throw questions at me. I can also share the questions the Booz consultant threw at me for the Associate, I was TOTALLY unprepared for that but can at least share the question types.Cheers. ASSUMPTION TECHNIQUESome of you messaged me about this separately, after my 2nd round, I thought I had bombed the case and it was over. The interviewer (my subsequent boss) told me to erase what I was doing on the board mid-way and just sit down (After I got hired I found out he was a notoriously brutal interviewer and was testing my stress response). I asked him if he could give me one tip on what I could have done differently before I left, here's what he said:'When stuck on a problem solving phase of your answer, particularly when you don't have enough knowledge or data to get to the next step, base your assumption on your own observations.'

Sounds like common sense I guess, and for the rest of you seasoned interviewers these are probably redundant tips, but it helped me clear the next 2 rounds really well.Also, I tend to disagree with the extent to which you should do that, but then again the interviewer is now almost a Partner with Bain so go figure!Cheers. You can try on My Consulting Coach, they have a free test and in general they are quite good value for money.I tried them for the interview service and they were absolutely great. Their whole value proposition is about learning to think like a consultant vs. Learning frameworks.

And in my experience, that's exactly what consulting companies are looking for. They taught me to structure problems on my own (no frameworks) in a simple, clear and analytical way, like a real consultant (your interviewer) would do.So, take a look.

And do a case interview with them, you won't regret it.