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The fit interview is where more offers are lost than candidates expect, usually because preparation went entirely into cases. These articles cover the behavioural side of the process: choosing stories that carry real difficulty, structuring them so the interviewer can follow without effort, handling the follow-up questions that probe what you actually did rather than what the team did, and answering the why-consulting and why-this-firm questions without reciting the recruiting page. The guidance here is specific about structure, because that is what makes a story land: situation, the complication that made it hard, what you personally decided, and what happened as a result, including what you would do differently. Prepare fewer stories than you think you need and prepare them deeply enough to survive three layers of follow-up. That is the standard these articles work to.
Fit interview questions fall into four recurring families — motivation, experience, self-assessment and your questions for the interviewer — and each rewards a different kind of answer.
Continue Reading Questions and Responses for Fit InterviewThe Personal Experience Interview is McKinsey's structured behavioural round, in which one story is probed in depth across a single dimension rather than several stories being sampled briefly.
Continue Reading Acing the Personal Experience InterviewA behavioural interview in consulting asks you to describe things you have actually done, on the premise that past behaviour predicts future behaviour better than stated intent does.
Continue Reading The Ultimate Guide to Behavioral Interviews in ConsultingThe results speak for themselves. Our preparation works.
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