2.5 Hour Case Interview Training

CASE INTERVIEW — INTENSIVE WORKSHOP

Wednesday, March 22, 2023 : 6:00 – 8:30 pm Eastern or 9:00 – 11:30 pm Eastern

Build Your Confidence and Case Cred in 2.5 Hours

We start with the basics, demystifying the process, then quickly ramp up.

Learn to communicate like a consultant — data-driven story telling

Develop hypothesis-driven structured problem solving

Create hand-crafted structures

Focus on high-impact issues

Fine-tune your critical thinking

Defend your answer without getting defensive

Sell your recommendation

Why Start Now?

Full-time hires will slow next year, but consulting internships will still be active as ever. They always need great talent in the pipeline. And these are life-changing jobs.

You need to start thinking about this soon. Undergraduate application deadlines and actual interviews will be even earlier this year.

Think April – June for application deadlines. MBAs will be a bit later.

Purpose

This intensive program is designed to help students and recent grads, as well as career changers gain the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to excel during fall recruiting season. We will demystify the process. You will learn the hypothesis-driven structured problem-solving approach used by many of the top strategy consulting firms. You will begin to have the confidence to engage with the interviewer and be yourself while being transparent about your thought process.

Training Objectives

  • Familiarize yourself with what consultants do in practice
  • Demystify the networking and case interview process and help you gain confidence
  • Give you experience with hypothesis-driven problem-solving approaches
  • Provide you with tactical skills necessary for consulting success
  • Help you avoid the most common pitfalls
  • Have fun

JOIN US!

Choose between two times.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22
6:00 – 8:30 pm Eastern

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22
9:00 – 11:30 pm Eastern

Success

Required Reading

Case in Point 11: Complete Case Interview Preparation
by Marc Cosentino

Please read the first four chapters.

Session Description

Part 1

What do consultants do?

Do case interviews really match up to working as a consultant?

Realizing that there is no one way to approach and solve a case, I start by going over some of the basics to every case interview, as well as the commitment it will take to get multiple offers.

 

  • Who gets the offers?
  • What recruiters look for
  • The importance of working through the case prioritizing the client’s interest
  • The similarities of a case interview and a consulting project
  • Math skills

Part 2

A review of the different types of cases the student will see:

  • Market-sizing cases
  • Interviewee-led v. interviewer-led cases
  • Written cases
  • Team cases
  • Presentation cases
  • Partner cases 

How to approach the cases:

  • First 5 steps
  • The importance of case notes
  • The importance of a complete, non-pedestrian recommendation
  • The most popular types of cases

Structures

  • New take on basic structures
  • How to hand-craft your structure
  • How to quickly lay out a complete structure

Part 3

3 case starts. (Video)

  • Students lay out their structure in 90 seconds and compare it to the one on the screen. Analysis and questions.

Part 4

 

  • How interviewees are evaluated
  • How to prepare
  • Networking
  • Q&A

JOIN US!

Choose between two times. 

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22
6:00 – 8:30 pm Eastern

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22
9:00 – 11:30 pm Eastern

Success

Instructor Bio

Case Questions founder MARC COSENTINO has trained more than 150,000 people. Each year, Cosentino leads in-person workshops at 45-50 top MBA programs and colleges. He coaches career services professionals. He trains science PhDs at Fortune 500 companies to think more like businesspeople. And he consults to a range of private sector firms, government agencies, and nonprofits. Santa Barbara-based Cosentino is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School and the University of Denver.