Guides to the consulting interview
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LinkedIn vs Resume 2026: What Each Document Is Really For
BCG uses your LinkedIn URL to match duplicate candidate profiles. Porsche Consulting says the CV is the most important thing. The two do different jobs.
Networking Email Templates 2026: 12 Copy-Paste Scripts
Twelve networking email templates with their subject lines: cold outreach, event follow-up, introductions, referrals, nudges, and informational interviews.
Networking Follow-Up Templates and the Second Message
Berkeley gives the window, one to two days, and the three things the note must express. Five templates for the messages that keep a contact alive afterward.
Consulting Application Tracker: The Fields That Decide
Most trackers log a firm and a date. The fields that lose applications are the assessment you were sent, its sitting rule, and a deadline in your inbox.
Resume Action Words 2026: The Only Published Verb Grid
One firm publishes a three-level grid for a project: participated, led, initiated. It is the only verb guidance a consulting firm gives, and it is enough.
Resume and Cover Letter Kit for Consulting Applications
Harvard calls the cover letter a writing sample and part of screening. Three firms require one, two call it optional, one says none. Build the kit for both.
Video Cover Letter 2026: How to Write and Record One
A video cover letter is a short recording sent with an application. Here is the 60 to 90 second script, the recording setup, and which employers ask for one.
The 3Cs Framework 2026: Where the Cost Line Should Go
The 3Cs framework run at a renewal case where a seven point churn move erases 88 percent of profit, and where no C of the three holds the cost to serve.
The 4Ps Framework 2026: Price Each P Before You Rank
Product, price, place and promotion, each converted into one number on a subscription launch. The list order and the ranking that results do not match.
Accenture Strategy 2026: Six Offerings, No Separate Track
Accenture Strategy names six offerings on its own page and sits among twenty capabilities. It publishes no separate recruiting track, and one advert proves it.
AI Case Feedback 2026: Instant Scores Without a Model
Our drill grader has no model in it. What the scorecard returns, the four blind spots we measured, and the firms' published rules on AI during an assessment.
Airline Cases 2026: Break-Even Load Factor, Worked
A route pair worked in seat kilometers, the two points of load factor that shift profit by 34 percent, and why a break-even load factor needs its yield.
Analysis Group Case Interview 2026: Bring Your Own Project
The Analysis Group interview runs two rounds, and the firm never writes the words case interview. What it does ask for, read from its own pages and postings.
The Ansoff Matrix 2026: Put a Probability on Each Box
Four growth routes ordered by risk, which is really a claim about success rates. Calder Instruments, and the exact rate at which that ordering reverses.
Ansoff vs Growth Share Matrix 2026: Two Grids, One Firm
Both grids filled from the same four business units, and the two places their answers part company. One of the two axes has been disputed by its own author.
Arthur D. Little Case Interview 2026: At Least Two Layers
Arthur D. Little prints five case instructions, four scoring criteria and a full practice case. We read every line, and its own worked numbers do not close.
Automotive Cases 2026: Plant Utilization Arithmetic
One assembly plant costed at five utilization rates the Federal Reserve publishes, plus the total cost of ownership ceiling McKinsey asks for in Talbot Trucks.
Banking Cases 2026: Two Rates and a Capital Ceiling
A retail bank case worked in basis points, where the profit is a spread between two published rates and the size of the balance sheet is capped by capital.
Behavioral Examples: The Follow-Up Breaks the Story
Fit answers usually survive the question and fail the probe. Fourteen behavioral examples with their probes, three spoken formats, and a timed rehearsal loop.
What Is a Break-Even Analysis? Three Firms Disagree
What is a break-even analysis? Fixed cost over contribution per unit gives a volume, and three published firm cases put different things above that line.
Case Books 2026: Where to Get One, and How to Drill It
We host no case book file. Who writes one, which school routes hand you a legitimate copy, how old the public copies really are, and five gestures that work.
ESADE Case Book 2026: What the School Really Publishes
ESADE's own 22-page clubs brochure never uses the word case book. Here is what the school does publish, who owns such a file, and where licensed prompts sit.
Case Interview Frameworks 2026: A Complete Prep Guide
Seven case interview frameworks, each with its categories and a worked example recomputed by hand, plus the rule that picks one inside the first minute.
Marketing Cases 2026: Blended CAC Hides the Real Cost
A blended acquisition cost of $25 conceals a paid cost of $39.47, and an unmeasured retention rate decides whether either figure is affordable at all.
Operations Cases 2026: Find the Bottleneck, Then Size It
A three station line where a 20 percent gain at the wrong post buys nothing, the same gain at the constraint lifts profit 120 percent, and a second buys 1.9.
Software Cases 2026: Churn Sets the Ceiling, in Numbers
Two percent monthly churn caps this business at 10,000 customers and $90 million of ARR, whatever the sales team does. The arithmetic behind that ceiling.
Clarifying Questions 2026: The Test That Filters Them
L.E.K. puts clarifying questions first on all three prompts it publishes. The test for which ones earn the time, and a market sized twice to show the cost.
Consumer Goods Cases 2026: The Promotion Arithmetic
A 20 percent trade promotion on a 30 percent margin needs volume to triple before it pays, worked through with the published consumer goods case from ZS.
Cost Benefit Analysis 2026: Only Incremental Cash Counts
A $14.6M warehouse automation worth $5.29M, until three incremental tests turn it negative. Plus the 7 percent real rate the US government still publishes.
Cost Reduction Cases 2026: Find the Addressable Base
Why a 5 percent savings target is really a 6.7 percent cut, the Deloitte step that doubles your answer if you skip it, and a case that does not reconcile.
Cost Structure Analysis 2026: Same Profit, Two Shapes
Two bakeries at $40M of revenue and $6M of profit. The same 10 percent revenue fall costs one of them 26.7 percent of profit and the other just 13.3 percent.
Customer Lifetime Value 2026: Why Retention Rules It
A subscription worth $290.29 a customer, and why three points of monthly retention cost 32.8 percent of it while three dollars of margin cost 14.3 percent.
Customer Profitability: Cost to Serve Decides the Ranking
Customer profitability ranked two ways on one book of business: cost to serve, a cumulative profit curve that peaks at 114 percent, and four moves that work.
Customer Segmentation 2026: Does the Answer Change?
A published water park case where two ticket classes move revenue per head by 16.7 percent and an unsegmented operating variable moves the total by 30 percent.
Decision Trees 2026: Expected Value Before Opinion
A catalyst pilot priced as an option: $36M to commit now, $40.1M to test first, and the pilot budget above which the information stops paying for itself.
Deloitte Case Interview Prep 2026: Ten Unlisted Cases
Deloitte case interview prep starts with the ten practice cases it hosts on a page search engines cannot see. What they contain, and where the process splits.