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6 Common Case Interview Mistakes

Strong problem-solving skills are sought by all consulting firms, be it McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Deloitte or any other consulting company. In this article, we will go through 6 common mistakes candidates make during consulting case interviews and we will provide some suggestions on how to avoid them. 1. Giving up It is very common for candidates to give up while solving a case. Yet, it is very hard to recover from this. Clients don’t hire consulting firms to solve easy problems. If it were easy, clients would solve the problem themselves. So, consultants generally deal with very difficult problems in...