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Consulting firms tend to use case studies while interviewing candidates to assess whether they possess the desired skills. Make sure that you are well prepared for case studies at the interview stage.
At FreshMinds, we’re committed to helping our candidates prepare well for their interviews. So here’s our top 5 guide to interview research.
Our star candidates, and the ones we successfully place, have all been keen to meet and accommodating enough to ensure a face to face meeting happens. We may have met candidates three or four times in some cases over several months before we’ve placed them into their ideal role.
With demand for high flyers returning to more healthy levels, we are certainly seeing more and more of our candidates facing a range of interview requests. With busy work and often heavy travel schedules to boot, finding the time to attend, and more importantly to adequately prepare for challenging interviews, is no easy task. Throw into the mix a variety of interview formats, from case studies and presentations to competency based questions and assessment centres, and it can all very quickly become daunting and confusing.
Thinking very directly about the key skills you need to thrive as an Interim employee is a great way to shed a lot more light on what sort of path an Interim interview is likely to follow.
“At some point during this interview, I’m going to ask a particular question. Your answer will be the largest factor in determining whether or not you get this job.” 30 nerve-racking minutes later…
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Interviewers occasionally like to throw in a leftfield question, to see how candidates react. Our experience suggests that these questions fall into two camps.
Interviewers occasionally like to throw in a leftfield question, to see how candidates react. Our experience suggests that these questions fall into two camps. They either test the ability to think laterally and creatively, or linearly and analytically.
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