Consulting help Five brainstorming tips for case interview candidates Many case interviews include a section requiring the candidate to brainstorm a variety of ideas. These could include identifying new product ideas, ways to improve profitability, risks to consider, causes of cost increases, etc. When asked to ...
Consulting help Five framework tips for case interview candidates Here are 5 tips specifically about frameworks for case interview candidates. Take Your Time As a rule of thumb, you should take 90-120 seconds on your initial framework. In a real case, that amount of ...
Consulting help Paper presentation in case interviews Since I have to give most practice interviews over the phone, I rarely get the opportunity to see the candidate’s paper. As such, I figured I would just give some general tips that helped me ...
Consulting help Five more quick tips for case interview candidates I’ve been giving more practice cases and a few more things popped up that most people can do to improve their performance in case interviews. Here are 5 more quick tips for case interviews (see ...
Consulting help Five quick tips for case interview candidates The case interview format required to get a management consulting job at a major firm can be daunting and brutal. I was lucky enough to successfully navigate Boston Consulting Group’s interview process after a fair amount of ...
Features Time to reorganize the U.S. military Our Military Today comes from Yesterday As I covered in my last post, not a lot has changed in our military structure since President Truman signed into law the National Security Act of 1947. This ...
Features Current military reorganization primer Gaius Marius reorganized the Roman military in a way that made the soldiers more dependent on their generals than on their civilian leadership. Then, the Roman Republic fell into tyranny. OK, so there’s more to the story, ...
Features Modern U.S. fighter jet primer Is there a difference between all the different fighter jets you hear about? Does the Army or Navy fly fighter jets, or is it just the Air Force? How many different fighter jets does the U.S. fly ...
Features Trip to New York Day 0 We took our trip to New York over July 4th weekend. Since I had accumulated a bunch of Amtrak reward points from one of my projects at work, we decided to use them ...
Features Trip to Japan Trip to Japan, Day 1 We woke up at ~1:30am to start our adventure to Japan (why did we even sleep?) After getting ready, we caught an Uber to the airport, making it by ~3:00am. ...
