Was laid off last month. Currently in the last round of an interview process, which involves building a PowerPoint presentation. Didn’t realize how much the templates at Deloitte helped, now that I don’t have access to them, with the slide design, tables, charts and overall features...

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Glad to hear you are in last rounds. Good luck.

PowerPoint has a feature called design I think
That works pretty well and they have all the icons built in as well

Google ppt templates for ideas.

Lastly keep it simple to tell your story.

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C1, we have an entire PPT plug-in in the form of an application tab with like 80 different features...

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To be fair QPT has useful functions for working on the page/document but the included slide templates are useless, except maybe the map shapes. I thought most groups had their own reference templates with a few dozen approved slide designs, distinct from QPT.

Moving from Accenture, which has barely anything to a whole separate toolbar at Deloitte with everything was amazing 😍

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Honestly rarely ever made slides at Accenture. I was a TC not MC though

Seems like more and more of the companies want free consulting in their interviews. Which role are you interviewing for?

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You exec and some other sites should have lots of potential templates - may not be perfect but can at least avoid complete slide design. Best of luck!

Have a friend email you the timesaver to a burner email

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You can find certain firms’ templates online

I think some links used to be on the /r/consulting wiki on reddit

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Slidecow.

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