Consulting Case Interviews & Guesstimates (CV tips included)

Name: Consulting Case Interviews & Guesstimates (CV tips included)
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Crack management consulting case interviews at McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Deloitte, Accenture. Course includes solved examples

Created bySankalp Chhabra

Last updated 11/2022

English

What you'll learn

Expectations of interviewers and preparation strategy
Basic fundamentals of preparation of case interviews
Critical frameworks and more importantly, their applications with examples
How to develop structure, analysis and recommendations and how to communicate with examples
Step by step approach on solving guestimates with several examples
Examples of candidates solving cases and guesstimates, so there is opportunity to learn what works and what doesn't
Detailed CV tips with several examples
Bonus Cover letter and networking tips

Course content

7 sections • 47 lectures • 8h 54m total length

Overview of the course9:46
Resume Part 16:37
Highlight resume and cover letter guidelines, common mistakes, and the essential resume sections from the session, guiding you to craft a concise one-page resume with readable content for interviews.
Resume Part 26:10
Resume Part 33:52
Resume Part 43:42
Resume Part 56:03
Resume Part 66:36
Resume Conclusion2:07
Cover Letter6:35
Networking Tips14:21
Identify relevant connections and build your network through personalized LinkedIn invitations and informational interviews. Prepare by researching roles and companies to speak with confidence and reduce interview stress.
Closure & Next Steps14:37
Master next steps for consulting careers by evaluating and quantifying resume impact, drafting targeted emails, building a network, and iterating with peer and senior feedback.

Overview of Guesstimates Session6:32
Introduction to Guesstimates11:50
Master a step-by-step guesstimate framework to tackle vague interview questions, learn to make logical assumptions, structure your approach, and clearly communicate reasoning recruiters expect behind approximate estimates.
Step by Step Approach (Part 1) to Solve Guesstimates13:20
Step by Step Approach (Part 2) to Solve Guesstimates14:03
Step by Step Approach (Part 3) to Solve Guesstimates11:06
Apply a step-by-step approach to guesstimates, prioritizing demand-side reasoning, clear problem scoping, and revenue-focused estimation for consulting case interviews.
Step by Step Approach (Part 4) to Solve Guesstimates14:19
Step by Step Approach (Part 5) to Solve Guesstimates15:32
Closure & Next Steps4:06
Walk through a step-by-step approach to case interviews and guesstimates, emphasizing clear communication, precise equation, and quick sanity checks via business sense and supply-demand perspectives.

Quick Recap4:41
Weddings in India in which horses are used19:17
Number of mens suits in US sold every year12:41
Disposable diapers market size in India10:43
Number of people visiting New Delhi railway station daily21:22
Apply a supply-side guesstimation to count daily visitors at New Delhi railway station by modeling trains, occupancy, platforms, and seating capacity, while defining scope and distinguishing travelers from staff.
Count of footballs that could fit in a swimming pool9:07
Estimate how many footballs fit in an Olympic-size pool by computing pool volume, ball volume, and adjusting for gaps and occupancy using cuboid-depth approximations.

Practicing Clarifying Questions and Proposing Structure Example 122:13
Clarifying Questions and Proposing Structure - Practice Example 214:11
Practice clarifying questions to diagnose a bank's profit decline, exploring regions, customer types, NPAs, and costs, then propose a structured revenue and cost framework.
Clarifying Questions and Proposing Structure - Practice Example 37:41
Closure & Next Steps6:42
Develops a practical framework for closing consulting case interviews and outlining next steps, emphasizing clear communication, implementable guesstimates, and profitability.

Introduction and Quick Recap14:47
Master case interview fundamentals through peer practice, clarifying questions, and structures, applying quantitative and qualitative analyses on customers, competition, and stakeholders, then deliver concise recommendations.
Blood Bank Profitability Issue Problem: Part 114:12
Blood Bank Profitability Issue Problem: Part 29:58
Explore how to structure a profitability case for a blood bank, set clear targets to breakeven, analyze revenue streams, costs, customers, competition, and stakeholders through a practical interview approach.
Blood Bank Profitability Issue Problem_Part 318:29
Blood Bank Profitability Issue Problem: Part 415:40
Analyze blood bank profitability by examining revenue, fixed and variable costs, and breakeven. Evaluate pricing strategies, volume changes, and customer mix between private and federal government hospitals.
Blood Bank Profitability Issue Problem: Part 519:21
Analyze blood bank profitability by assessing volume changes and price shifts to break even, accounting for variable and fixed costs, demand and supply dynamics, and feasible recommendations.
Closure and Next Steps12:01

Introduction and Quick Recap3:37
Market Entry Case Interview Practice: Part 112:17
Market Entry Case Interview Practice: Part 218:18
Practice market entry case interviews by defining a launch strategy for a pharmaceutical product in the Middle East, detailing break-even, revenue, costs, competition, customers, and stakeholders.
Market Entry Case Interview Practice: Part 314:19
Market Entry Case Interview Practice: Part 418:16
Assess a market entry for a drug in the Middle East by evaluating a 30-dollar unit cost, 50-dollar pricing, pricing strategies, and tender barriers to win government contracts.
Market Entry Case Interview Practice: Part 59:19
Cost Reduction Case Interview Practice11:49
Master cost reduction case interviews by analyzing cost structure, clarifying questions, and benchmarking fixed and variable costs against competitors to target sales and marketing and operations overhead for data-driven reductions.
Closure and Next Steps4:28
Learn to use sources, casebooks, and partner networks to practice with a 10/20/70 hour plan, and build crisis-related case structures by region, platform, time, and products.

Requirements

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Description

This course is appropriate for those looking for a comprehensive approach to prepare for consulting interviews. It covers the fundamental approach and substantiates it with wide variety of examples.

The BEST part about this course is that you could see concepts being learnt and applied by candidates within the videos. This helps you practice along with those candidates, speak aloud, learn from their mistakes and it feels like you're attending a live class.

This course will cover the following -

Session 1 - Resume, Cover Letter, Off-campus Networking Tips
Session 2 - Step-by-step Approach to Guesstimates
Session 3 - Guesstimates (Advanced) & Introduction to Case Interview Basics
Session 4 - Case Interview: Profitability Framework & Examples
Session 5 - Case Interview: Market Entry, Business problems & Examples
Session 6 - Case Interview: Pricing & Other examples

Another amazing part about this course is that it is detailed to depth. Be it the examples on Resume improvement, Guesstimate discussions or Case Interviews Preparation, you would find that concepts have been explained through multiple examples. This ensures a thorough understanding of the concepts.

You are invited to join the course and experience the preparation journey of several candidates who eventually got selected at McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Deloitte, ZS Associates, PwC, Praxis, etc. Yes, these are real candidates who gave interviews later and got selected.

Who this course is for:

Candidates preparing and aspiring for consulting job interviews.
Students/Professionals looking for a job switch.

Consulting Case Interviews & Guesstimates (CV tips included)

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Course content

Resume Development, Cover Letter and Networking Tips11 lectures • 1hr 20min

Guesstimates: Step-by-step Approach8 lectures • 1hr 31min

Guesstimates - Practice Examples6 lectures • 1hr 18min

Case Interview Basics3 lectures • 38min

Practicing Clarifying Questions and Proposing Structure4 lectures • 51min

Application of Case Interview Basics in Typical Case Formats7 lectures • 1hr 44min

Case Interview Practice8 lectures • 1hr 32min

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