Consulting Firms Provide the Best Career Opportunities

Do consulting firms provide the best career opportunities?  Well, according to Glassdoor, it seems so.  Every year Glassdoor publishes a list of 25 companies that are rated best for career opportunities.  Glassdoor is a US-based job and career site where employees anonymously provide feedback on the pros and cons of  their companies and bosses.     These 25 companies are selected based on those anonymous votes and comments by the employees. ...  read more

Finding Your Career Path in a Company

One of the things I love most about writing this blog is being able to help professionals from all of the world with their career success questions.  I am honored to be able to help my readers directly.  Here is a question about how to find your career path I received that may be faced by many people out there.  I wanted to share the question and my response to help others. ...  read more

What are Case Interviews and How to Ace Them

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Consulting companies like McKinsey and BCG invented the case interview method.  Now pretty much all consulting firms as well as many hiring managers outside of consulting use the case interview to help them identify the best candidate for a business job opening.

So what is an case interview?  Simply, it’s when the interviewer gives you a scenario (like a business situation or an interpersonal situation) and ask you questions about how would you go about addressing it.  This method works well in interviews because the scenario and their related questions (aka the case) often has nothing to do with the interviewee’s past work experience.  It is designed to be a complete surprise so that the interviewer can test your true capabilities as a business candidate ...  read more