Ace Your Case! Consulting Interviews (WetFeet Insider Guide) (Paperback)

by WetFeet (Author) "You're pacing nervously back and forth in the career center, waiting for the interviewer to come out and call your name..." (more)
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Product Description
The most dreaded part of your consulting interview: THE CASE! Like it or not, if you're planning 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/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 organization. Fortunately, by studying up on the case process and honing your case interview skills through practice, you'll soon be able to amaze friends and family alike with your explanations, frameworks and graph drawing skills. In this best-selling Insider report, WetFeet.com will help you ace your case!

What the Heck Is A Case?
Let's start with a simple definition. The case interview is essentially a word problem based upon a real life (or simulated) consulting situation. Cases come in all shapes and sizes, from the simple, straightforward question designed to see how you think about a problem, to the highly complex business strategy issue that takes twenty minutes to explain and involves graphs and charts and buzzwords up the wazoo. However, they all have one thing in common. (No, it's not to inspire fear in the hearts and minds of would-be consultants!) The consulting firms tell us that the case interview is an excellent way to test a candidate's analytical abilities, his or her resourcefulness and way of thinking about problems, and, ultimately, his or her aptitude for consulting.

Are you ready to ace your case interview? Among the topics in this information-packed report:

• What to expect in your interview
  
• How to impress your interviewer
  
• Seven steps to surviving the case interview
  
• Five categories of cases
  
• Buzzword bingo for the consulting case interview
  
• Consulting frameworks
  
• Consulting frameworks: The second stage
  
• What to do when things don't go as planned
  
• The judge's scorecard/How you'll be evaluated
  
• Sample cases for consultants-to-be
  
• WetFeet worksheet for case analysis
  
• Suggested answers to common case questions

Product Details

• Paperback: 118 pages
• Publisher: WetFeet, Inc.; 2nd edition (February 28, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1582072477
• ISBN-13: 978-1582072470
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #762,193 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding case interview prep..., March 12, 2002

By	Matthew Percy (On the el next to a morbidly obese person, Chicago, El-eh-nwah) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Consulting Interviews: Ace Your Case (Paperback)

Anybody interested in consulting or facing a case interview should definitely check out Wet Feet's series. Their case interview guides are outstanding, providing a thorough guide of what to expect, how to tackle a problem (providing you with a quick refresher course on basic business concepts, frameworks, etc), and what behavior/ideas your interviewer will likely be looking for. I found this book to be absolutely essential when I got into strategy consulting a few years ago-considering the current job market, it's almost a must-have if you've never had the pleasure of being grilled with cases before.

18 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Yes that's outdated!!, March 20, 2004

By	Ken (Kirkland, WA USA) - See all my reviews

I am majorly disappointed with this book. I was really shopping around for Case In Point / Vault Guide to Case Interview, but since those books aren't carried by my local bookstore and I need that quickly, I end up choosing this as it has an electronic version. It's no good. FULL STOP. It's like a random summary of a MBA courses, Porter's five forces etc.. But I don't think this book is helping with dealing with case interview at all, rather it's confusing the candidate especially for those non-MBA students who didn't know about those infamous business framework. It's giving them a incomplete and useful illustrations. Disappointed...

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Deconstructing the Case Interview, April 9, 2003

By A Customer

Definitely worth the money. I bought this one as well as Ace II (just heard there's now an Ace III), and used it to prepare for my consulting interviews. No matter what case got thrown at me, I kept my wits about me since i'd seen it all before while working through the WF guides. And now I'm going to work for one of my top picks in consulting. woohoo!