How much time did you spend preparing your stories and answers for the fit interview?

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The behavioral interview with HR before case interviews

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I always felt like this was the moment that would tell me if I enjoy them so I’d prep by knowing what I want answered. It’s not always them interviewing, take that with a grain of salt.

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I prepared it on the go, as I started my interview journey with those firms that were bottom of my priority list

The mck stories are vastly different to a regular Personal fit Interview though, so I prepared them for around a week in total

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Fit interview maybe 5 hours. These are the questions I’ve noticed the most at this stage
- Tell me about yourself
- Tell me about your skills
- Why (company)
- What is your expected comp
- Logistics (i.e. when you could start)

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I freestyled

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As McK 1 said, I prepared on the go, as I practiced. For every company that I received an interview invitation, I created a story for it.

My story is almost always made of 3 parts:
- My background (how I got to want consulting)
- Why consulting
- Why company XYZ

I can vary all 3 components on length and topic. For an example: I recently received an offer for an unicorn to CoS that I basically freestyled why "unicorn" based on my "Why consulting" answers but without saying the word consulting lol

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~5 seconds. Usually the 5 seconds after they asked the question.

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I spent many months compiling questions and answers to behavioral interviews until I finally got the EY interview. I faced many rejections but from each rejection, I took something and made my resume and behavioral answers better. I have a whole document in case you need something to look at.

Hi, do you still have that document , please may you share it with me , that would be so helpful !

~6 hours. But I tend to overwork when I’m nervous, you probably don’t need that long

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