PSA: if you are interviewing for a specific practice or a specialized consultancy, please do your due diligence and have a good answer to “what is your understanding of our line of work” (doesn’t need to be ground breaking, but at least read the website and put it in your own words). It’s a really stupid way of scoring negative points in the interviewer feedback.

*if you have <1 YoE, we’ll cut you some slack

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If it’s a no name consultancy like say Efficio, reading a website does nothing. The company has to sell their brand to consultants, and pay a premium on salary, not the other way around.

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I used to work at Deloitte UK and now at Efficio. Can confirm Efficio is a much better firm with better pay, better management, better culture, more diverse and more robust methodology. Some Deloitte people are just horrible and this post shows! I definitely don’t regret leaving Deloitte.

OP are these candidates who initiated the recruitment or were they poached by your company/a recruiter? I always love when I get poached and am in interview they ask me, "why do you want to work here" and I tell them. "you contacted me to work for you, why do you want me to work for you and think that I'm a good fit?"

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A1: agree, and fwiw we also give feedback about this to recruiters and our own HR. At the end of the day though, I still expect someone to have a good sense of what they are interviewing for.

"I understand that you're in the line of work of employing people for pecuniary remuneration, and I am in the line of work of seeking said moneys"

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That’s honestly more on-point than some response I’ve gotten from candidates 🤷🏼‍♂️

How hard are people fighting to get into procurement...?

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Exactly. Who cares about procurement. Entitlement at no name consultancies dissing candidates is amazing.

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