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While there's no set list, businesses are pretty clear about qualities they like to see demonstrated by their employees and applicants. Generally, a consultant interviewer is looking for evidence of confidence, communication skills, your ability to gain a client's trust, overall leadership skills, and knowledge of your subject matter to name a few. There are generally two types of consulting interview questions: fit — designed to find out about your personal experience, motivation, and soft skills, and case — designed to assess your analytical consulting skills.

Top Consultant Interview Questions & How To Answer

Question 1

Question #1: Why do you want to work for this firm?

How to answer
How to answer: This question is asked to reveal your motivation for choosing a specific organization and to test your knowledge of the industry. Research the firm you're interviewing with and make sure to highlight some of your key points of interest. Additionally, mention any ways in which the company's values align with your own.
Question 2

Question #2: Give an example of a time you lead a team.

How to answer
How to answer: To answer this question, choose an experience in which you made a meaningful impact while managing or working with others. Provide context regarding the situation and objective, describe your leadership role, what actions you took, the outcome of those actions, and what you learned about yourself during the process.
Question 3

Question #3: How would you help a local cafe recover from a sharp profitability decline?

How to answer
How to answer: Breaking down complex business problems is one of the hallmarks of consulting. For questions like this, there's no universal framework — you'll have to create your own. Ask questions, define the problem clearly, create Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive (MECE) categories, show how you would analyze each category, and define your next steps.

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There are three buckets, one with apples, one with oranges, and one with a mixture of both. They are all labeled wrong. You can pick one piece of fruit from one bucket, what would you pick to determine what is in all three buckets?
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Project Manager/Implementation Consultant

Interviewed at Epic

3.3★
Jan 26, 2011

There are three buckets, one with apples, one with oranges, and one with a mixture of both. They are all labeled wrong. You can pick one piece of fruit from one bucket, what would you pick to determine what is in all three buckets?

I was given a puzzle which tested my analytical abilities and had to solve it in 10 secs. The puzzle was that there are 61 tennis players, where each plays the other only once and the loser of the match is out of the championship. How many no. of matches need to be played to get a single winner?
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Consultant

Interviewed at EY

3.7★
Jan 21, 2013

I was given a puzzle which tested my analytical abilities and had to solve it in 10 secs. The puzzle was that there are 61 tennis players, where each plays the other only once and the loser of the match is out of the championship. How many no. of matches need to be played to get a single winner?

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