Consulting Advisory

Consulting Advisory interview prep.

The library content Coach uses to tailor reports for this role. Generated reports personalise this against the candidate's CV + the firm's context.

Behavioural questions to expect

  1. Walk me through your CV.
  2. Tell me about your most impressive project or accomplishment.
  3. Tell me about a weakness, a failure, or feedback you've received and worked on.
  4. Why consulting advisory? / Why this role over an in-house strategy or analyst path?
  5. Why the firm?
  6. Why now? / Why are you making this transition?
  7. What do you think makes the firm distinct from a top competitor?
  8. What does day-to-day life look like for a consultant / advisor at this firm?

Technical concepts to master

  • Case interview — canonical frameworks

    MECE (Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive) · Issue tree · Profitability framework · Market sizing — top-down · Market sizing — bottom-up

  • Advisory craft — translating analysis into client-actionable recommendations

    Top-down synthesis (the SCQ format) · Hypothesis-driven analysis · Translating analysis to recommendation · Working alongside the client team · Executive communication + reading the room

Practical drills

  • Size the annual revenue of the sector in geography. (E.g., 'global toothbrush market', 'US dog walking market', 'UK gym membership revenue'.)
  • Your client is a the sector company. Profits have declined {X}% over the last two years while revenue has been flat. The CEO wants to know what's driving it + what to do. Walk me through how you'd approach this.
  • Your client {does X in Y geography}. They're considering {entering market Z / launching product W / repricing their flagship}. How would you advise them?

Smart-question anchors

  • Office-specific case mix - sectors + case types the candidate would likely staff on in the first 12-18 months
  • Advisory craft development - how the firm develops the analysis-to-recommendation translation skill
  • Practice area entry vs generalist track - how the firm handles the transition from generalist to sector specialist
  • Recent landmark engagement - dynamics behind one publicly-cited engagement (without asking for confidential info)
  • Client team co-design model - how the firm partners with client working teams to ensure recommendations stick

Sourced from

Case Coach (casecoach.com) · PrepLounge (preplounge.com) · Crafting Cases (craftingcases.com) · Case in Point (Marc Cosentino) · Management Consulted — consulting roles + advisory work

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