15 Questions: More Practice to Help You Ace Your Consulting Case (Insider Guides Series : Company Insider) [Paperback]

Wet Feet Press (Author), Gary Alpert (Author), Steve Pollock (Author)

Book Description

Series: Insider Guides Series : Company Insider | Publication Date: March 1997

Do you want to know what a job in this industry is really like-and do you want to know it quickly? WetFeet has the best research (and writing) team in the business. WetFeet guides are the industry standard--based on thousands of insider interviews and written with humor and skill, our materials are recognized by candidates and companies alike as the insider guide of choice.

So, you've scoured the Ace Your Case report from WetFeet.com, you've attended four company presentations on cracking the consulting case, and you still think you need a little more practice before you're ready to start slam-dunking those consulting interviews. Good thinking! If there's one thing we hear again and again from consulting recruiters (and candidates), it's that practice (and preparation) makes perfect. In this report you'll find a number of practice case questions which are designed to help you hone your case interviewing skills to a razor-sharp edge.

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Gary Alpert and Steve Pollock are the founders of WetFeet.com, a San Francisco-based research and Internet publishing firm that produces the leading series of Insider's Guides for job seekers. The WetFeet Insider Guide series is used by top caliber job seekers worldwide to prepare for their interviews with leading management consulting, financial services, consumer products and high technology firms. Alpert and Pollock have recently been recognized by the New York Times, Forbes, Business Week and Fortune Magazine as founders of one of the most influential information resources for top-tier job seekers. Alpert and Pollock are 1993 MBA graduates of Stanford Business School.

Product Details

• Paperback: 74 pages
• Publisher: Wetfeet.Com (March 1997)
• ISBN-10: 1582070105
• ISBN-13: 978-1582070100
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,380,274 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Do you really need more cases?, March 26, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: 15 Questions: More Practice to Help You Ace Your Consulting Case (Insider Guides Series : Company Insider) (Paperback)

The problem with these cases is that they tend to be oversimplified.
Consultants are not looking for you to regurgitate someone else's
thinking in the form of a framework. It's not a matter of recognizing
this case as a Seven S and this one as a Four P, etc.

While I
think this book will help you if you're just not feeling comfortable
with cases, most would be better served going through the cases
prepared by the Consulting Club at your school (or buying the case
book from Wharton's or HBS's Consulting Club). Then spend your time
talking to second years and alumni who either worked for top-tier
consulting firms before school, over the summer, or after
graduation.

The Wet Feet Press... reports are very valuable
for researching companies, and the Ace Your Case book is very good,
but this one was rather redundant.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars out of date, September 23, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: 15 Questions: More Practice to Help You Ace Your Consulting Case (Insider Guides Series : Company Insider) (Paperback)

While this guide may have once been useful, in my opinion it has
become out of date. In my experience consulting firms have recently
dramatically changed the format of case interview questions and more
recent reflection of the new trends in case interviewing can be better
found...

3.0 out of 5 stars fairly useful, November 17, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: 15 Questions: More Practice to Help You Ace Your Consulting Case (Insider Guides Series : Company Insider) (Paperback)

This guide is fairly useful though a bit repetitive. Still it is worth a read. Also recommended is the Vault Guide to the Case Interview.