Consulting recruiting in Canada runs on the North American calendar but through a smaller market, where office choice, language and work authorisation matter more than they do elsewhere.
Consulting digital assessments are the online screens firms run before the interview rounds — behavioural game batteries such as Pymetrics, and aptitude and situational tests such as SOVA.
BCG Casey is a chatbot-led online case that BCG uses to screen candidates, running a compressed case conversation with multiple-choice, chart and written-response questions.
McKinsey Solve is the digital assessment McKinsey uses to screen candidates before the case interview rounds, built around scenario games rather than questions with recallable answers.
A market sizing case asks you to estimate the size of a market from a handful of known facts, building the number from a stated structure rather than recalling it.
A full practice case with the interviewer's prompt, the data released on request, the arithmetic and a model recommendation — an airline consortium with a budget and a perception problem.
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.
An M&A case asks whether an acquisition creates value at the price offered, which turns on four questions — strategic rationale, target quality, valuation and integration.
The 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.