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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 is a group of n people. A serial killer comes and kills every kth person from the group and keeps on repeating this until there is only one person left and he spares the life of that person. Write an equation/algorithm which takes n and k as input and give the position of the guy who will be alive after the complete process. For eg: Let us assume there is a group of 13 (n) people and the serial killer kills every 3rd (k) person. The positions on which they are standing are marked 1 to 13. The order in which he kills will be: 3, 6, 9, 12, 2, 7, 11, 4, 10, 5, 1, 8. This way the guy on 13th positon will be saved.
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Java Consultant

Interviewed at Xebia

3.8★
Mar 5, 2016

There is a group of n people. A serial killer comes and kills every kth person from the group and keeps on repeating this until there is only one person left and he spares the life of that person. Write an equation/algorithm which takes n and k as input and give the position of the guy who will be alive after the complete process. For eg: Let us assume there is a group of 13 (n) people and the serial killer kills every 3rd (k) person. The positions on which they are standing are marked 1 to 13. The order in which he kills will be: 3, 6, 9, 12, 2, 7, 11, 4, 10, 5, 1, 8. This way the guy on 13th positon will be saved.

Tell us about your previous education/work in 90 seconds. Why AMP? Why are you fit for this role? Tell us a time you received bad customer service? And how would you have resolved it if you were person giving bad customer service? Tell us a time have you multi-tasked?
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Customer Service Consultant

Interviewed at AMP Limited

3.2★
Mar 18, 2019

Tell us about your previous education/work in 90 seconds. Why AMP? Why are you fit for this role? Tell us a time you received bad customer service? And how would you have resolved it if you were person giving bad customer service? Tell us a time have you multi-tasked?

What have you done in a new situation where you have to produce something but do not have a lot of ideas on a specific matter and how would you deal with the situation (not the exact question but something in a similar line).
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Graduate Business Psychology Consultant

Interviewed at Arup

4★
Feb 23, 2017

What have you done in a new situation where you have to produce something but do not have a lot of ideas on a specific matter and how would you deal with the situation (not the exact question but something in a similar line).

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