Category: consulting clubs

3 Main Types of Fit Interview Questions

The fit interview is like a behavioral interview for the consulting industry. Within that, there are distinct fit interview question types a candidate should be aware of. Today, we're sharing about 3 types of fit interview questions. The direct questions, story questions, and what we call "tricky" questions. Intrigued? Good! Read on as Jenny Rae,…

Profitability Case Walkthrough- BCG Style

Profitability cases are very common in case interviews. Many businesses are looking to consultants to guide them toward increased profitability. That of course means firms are looking for candidates to be familiar with how to handle this type of case. In particular, BCG has their own style when it comes to these profitability cases. See…

Winter 2014 East Coast Tour Recap

On our January 2014 Consulting Bootcamp tour, we travelled to several universities up and down the East Coast - Duke, Georgia Tech, UGA, Penn, Harvard, McGill, Dartmouth, Columbia, and Cornell. **** In the beginning of the trip, Jenny Rae was intern-less. What did this mean? No pictures! By way of a quick words-only recap, we…

Final 2013 West Coast Adventures: Bain, Berkeley, and Stanford

We've been busy. After spending the last 5 months traveling to top colleges across the planet (Canada, U.K., and the East Coast - Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Georgetown, Duke and Georgia Tech), we decided to end our year off with one last trip to the Bay Area. This time we visited the Bain office in San Francisco, held 2 bootcamps at Stanford, and 1 bootcamp…

2013 Canada Tour Recap – Ph.D.s, Snow and Vintage Chocolate

If this is your first time joining us, we've spent the last 5 months traveling to top colleges across the planet - check out news from our latest gallivants to the U.K., the Bay Area, and East Coast (Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Georgetown, Duke and Georgia Tech). **** Our trip started off with a sparse few hours of sleep on two red-eye flights…

West Coast Mini-Tour – Berkeley, Bootcamps and Ice Cream Sandwiches

The West Coast is the Best Coast - I thought that was ridiculous. Until I moved to California. Yes, we busted our a#$es visiting Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Georgetown, Duke and Georgia Tech (click the links for highlights). The East Coast schools are organized - all competing with one another, all beating to the same drum. West Coast?…

Tour Recap – Day 7 (New York Consulting Bootcamp)

Welcome...to the final day, the crowning achievement, of our 2013 8-day East Coast (we counted our final travel day too). If you're just joining us, check out Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Georgetown, Duke and Georgia Tech's highlights. **** To check out a video with in-person testimonies, make sure to read on to the end of the…

Tour Recap – Day 6 (Harvard)

Welcome back to Tour Throwback Week. We hustled up and down the U.S. East Coast, visiting Georgia Tech, Duke, Georgetown, and Columbia, Yale, and Harvard. Check out our adventures and misadventures before reading today's post. If you want a small group setting to accelerate your case interview performance (like, 0-60 in a day) join us next weekend in San Francisco -…

Tour Recap – Day 5 (Yale)

Welcome back to Tour Throwback Week. We're recapping our lives as road warriors via planes, trains and automobiles...we visited Georgia Tech, Duke, Georgetown, and Columbia before rolling over to today's campus...Yale. If you missed us, we are generally funny. Go back through our previous posts and laugh with us. If you are convinced that -…

Tour Recap – Day 4 (Columbia)

We're on a Tour Throwback trip...welcome to Part 4. If you missed our recaps of Georgia Tech, Duke, or Georgetown, read those first. If you are just joining us, we are holding our next 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp in San Francisco on September 21. Or, invite us to come present a 2-hour Bootcamp Lite (60 attendees minimum, lecture) or 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp (8-30…