Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking
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Firmsconsulting maintains a 80% success rate at placing clients within McKinsey, BCG and Bain. This is the highest in the industry and the rate is higher if we include other firms. We achieve this rate because we only use former partners from McKinsey, BCG et al to develop our clients. This makes us unique. We never use analysts, associates, engagement managers or associate principals. We also carefully select and develop clients on their communication, image, technical and case interview skills. This podcast channel describes our lessons from training our clients.
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May 28, 2015 • 21min
265: Client Lessons: Stanford Masters Student
This podcast was prepared for clients in our case coaching program. Each week I will consolidate the main questions and challenges clients are facing in the program and use these podcasts to communicate suggestions and advice to your unique preparation needs.
May 22, 2015 • 29min
264: From Siberia's winter plains to an elite university
The Firmsconsulting Emerging Fellows program is a program we run whereby we find and mentor promising young students from impoverished parts of the world. Working with them over several years, we guide them into elite schools and eventually into McKinsey or BCG.
May 16, 2015 • 14min
263: How to read to improve reasoning
We have a section on the website where I list all of the articles I read on a daily basis: What Firmsconsulting is reading. The thinking was that readers could replicate the reading of a former strategy partner at an elite firm by reading what I read.
May 10, 2015 • 27min
262: BCG / McKinsey to Private Equity: 4 Client Experiences
If you wanted to move from BCG / McKinsey to private equity, how do you make the career change?
May 4, 2015 • 16min
261: McKinsey US No, McKinsey Moscow Yes, Wants US
This very insightful and unusual podcast discusses the unique situation 5 of our clients face.
Apr 28, 2015 • 13min
260: Billable Hours Are Not Bad
This podcast addresses a major misunderstanding about billable hours. The concept is not bad at all, but works only in certain circumstances. This podcast carefully explains those circumstances, and crucially examines how billable hours hurts consulting assignments. It has nothing to do with the focus on profits, but rather who has the focus on profits.
Apr 22, 2015 • 19min
259: What Happened to Irina?
In September 2013 we published the inspiring story of Irina who worked her way from a Ukraine vocational school into McKinsey. This podcast tracks her progress since joining McKinsey and explains the mistakes she made which ultimately led to her leaving McKinsey.
Apr 16, 2015 • 6min
258: Using TCO 1 and 2
This is a short podcast offering subscribers advice on how to best use the enormous amount of information in both seasons. In particular, the podcast offers some important reminders and explains how the watch cases will allow you to write the strategy MBA exam at any major business school.
Apr 10, 2015 • 9min
257: The Trap Of Being Too Logical
In Season 2 of The Consulting Offer, you will regularly see Alice breaking down the case problem into the correct logical components. She is impressive at doing this. However, you will also see Kevin pushing her to offer more. This podcast explains what Kevin was looking for. In other words, being logical in a case interview is insufficient to impress a partner in the final round interviews.
Apr 4, 2015 • 12min
256: 2nd and 3rd Order Insights
We insist candidates read extensively to improve their business judgement. However, we find candidates really struggle to demonstrate they have indeed read the article, and more importantly, have improved their thinking in some way as a result of reading the article. This counter-intuitive piece demonstrates how to generate 2nd, 3rd and 4th order insights when communicating with partners.
