COMPLETE Roadmap to crack Consulting Interview in 90 days | Ex-Mckinsey interviewer | Free template

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In this video, I discussed the complete roadmap to becoming a management consultant. If you are wondering how to crack management consulting interviews, this video will help you. I have interviewed many candidates at McKinsey and this framework shared in the video has helped many candidates I know to crack the management consulting interviews at McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Kearney, and other consulting firms. You will be able to crack a consulting interview in 3 months if you implement the learnings from this video.

There are 3 components to this. The first is industry information, the second is the specific case practice, and the last is personal interview practice. I also have shared a PDF with you and a few templates to help you crack a consulting interview. Please download this PDF for further use. As we open the PDF, you see that you can consume information for your consulting interview from 3 primary sources. The first is related to business insights and the sources are McKinsey Insights, the second is Bain Briefs, and the third one is Goldman Sachs Reports. You can read these reports and they will help you learn a lot from long-form articles talking about industry trends.

This is based on their expertise in this field. When these people are creating these reports, it serves as the information on which they create the case interview questions. So, you are going straight to the source of the information from which the source questions are prepared. The second is the business news that you can get from some good newspapers. These things talk about the trends that are happening every single day. The first is the Business Standard in India and the Wall Street Journal for international business news. This is because the backlinking on both of these is pretty good. That way you will know the full story.

The second source you can information from is NPR. It is the portal from where all the radio channels get their news. So, when you get information from NPR, you are directly getting it from the source. It is the closest to the absolute truth that you can find on social media. The quarterly results reports are the next source of information for you. You should read these quarterly results reports casually for at least 1 month. Because without knowing the information you cannot solve a case problem.

If you have more than 5-10 years of experience in the same industry and you want to become a consultant in that industry itself then your information consumption can revolve around that industry only. But if you don’t have that kind of experience then please go for consuming information from every source you can.

Slowly transition and start taking your own notes and start tracking what is happening in the whole industry. There are not many places on the internet where you can find the cost drivers or revenue drivers for various industries. The industry trends are not available everywhere and because of that, you should prepare your own notes on these topics. Once you start consuming this information and drafting it, you need to start consuming the info in a different way. Take two minutes and think about what could be the commercial real estate risks. Write for your answer and then read the article.

Once you start doing this for every article, you will be able to remember a lot of information. Sharing your knowledge on LinkedIn will push you to express your thoughts. Use the above PDF for the remaining information and watch the video. Hope you find this video valuable, see you in the next one.

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[vaishnavimangnale]

As an undergrad in computing but aiming to break into a consulting role as a fresher, this video gives direction and plan to action, very helpful, thank you !

[krishnakgk]

I am doing project management course at IIM Indore. The group is varied with differnt experience in different industries. Hence took an initiative to start a case study group to understand other industries. Your pointers help a lot on how to take the group forward. Thank you for your inputs

[amitsingh-xple]

Thank you Pavan for creating this. Really helpful!!

[bjs]

very well dissected the consulting interview process and approach. Again a great video which helps many. Thank you.

[sundaryellapragada]

Real value content. After a long time saw a video which has a immediate actionable points. thank you

[vidyadharkamat]

Nice informative inputs for young generation. Additional aspect is working in Business Intelligence space or creating/reading CXO Dashboards, should give a quick snapshot of entire organization.

Also, recommend some following books.
1. Mackinsey way
2. Strategy Consulting by Jeroen
3. One hour strategy by Jeroen

[amimahmad]

Thanks Pavan..really insightful. Will start my journey.

[dsl]

Brilliant consulting tips, must for go getters. Thanks!

[Yash_Ashvy]

Great great
thanks for giving some confidence to the desire. Great help and appreciate the efforts 👏 will share with my friends as well

[rammunireddylevaku]

I am doing an MBA at the University of Liverpool. This is the best material and guide to prepare for an interview as well as learn more about the industry. Thank you very much, sir.

[meghasaraogi]

Very helpful insights, thanks for sharing a comprehensive step-by-step approach.

[pushpavarma]

Pavangaru…. This is brilliant…. I don’t think anyone else has shared such in depth information. You have actually delivered a complete structural solution along with timelines:) I am currently with Deloitte….hope i can crack BCG or Mc Kinsey next!

[thisgetup]

Hi Pavan, Really exceptional research and keep doing these kind of videos. Thank you for this.

[Avinash-lbyv]

I love this practical actionable video.

[kaveripakamsaichandrahas]

Please provide approach for United Nations and Other Multilateral Organization's. And other Social Impact Consulting Firms like Dalberg, Bridgespan, FSG

[JERRRY]

Thankyou sir for this amazing content ❤

[mohammedarfath]

Hi Pavan, great content, i have 10 years of experience in automotive software development and my current role is of scrum master and technical lead, i applied for a role of business analyst at McKinsey and i got invite for the problem solving game from McKinsey. Please also make video on how to solve the problem solving game and i am supposed to complete the problem solving game before 16 may 2024, I was watching out some videos on test pattern from YouTube. please help

[anilnitrkl]

Pavan, can you help to prepare an application to get short-listed for an interview? I have been trying for this since few times i am in Germany. Hoping to hear from you

[anadigautam]

Dear Sir,
Kindly provide similar roadmap for product management also.

[krishnakhandelwal]

Hey Pavan, This is a great video..I shared it with my peers...Can you make a similar one for Venture Capital please..It will be of great help. I know its not your area of expertise, but you might have the right network for the insights so I request you to please create a video on it