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Any Aon pension actuaries who could help my friend understand the hierarchy of titles? Let’s say my friend has 10 years of experience, FSA and EA credentials, was a consistently high performer over his career, what would his expected title be at Aon within the core retirement actuarial business? Thanks in advance.
Read Case interview secrets first to get a feel for case interviews. Then read Case in point to learn cool brainstorming/market sizing tricks and also go through the example cases in that book. Then do 20 live cases (make sure you also give interviews to others too. I learned more by watching others do it to understand what not to do).
Then, watch practice runs done by Management Consulted. There was one by a Bainie who did really well, and there is also another one done by a girl on M&A case (the name of the simulation case is Margaritaville) . It sounds really harsh, but she was absolutely horrible in the video, and it gave me a really clear perspective on why many people fail case interviews (stuttering, not asking relevant questions, not using good transition words). Watch that video, and try to really understand what leads to bad case interviews. (She works at Bain now, so that just shows you can go from awful to killing it with enough practice)
After that, just keep reading bunch of NYT, Economists articles to understand macro trends in various industries so you can drop them in your actual interview; shows that you actually care about the economy/consulting.
I’d say 20-30 practice cases are where you maximize time put in vs things learned. I’ve found that rather than focusing on how to do a good case interview, focus more on what makes a bad case interview and try to be conscious of not making those mistakes. Good luck
Crafting Cases (the fundamentals course) and RocketBlocks
I just used free case books from bschools. It’s arguably more important to find good casing partners than good cases
Casecoach.com . The brief courses and practice rooms did it for me
Managementconsulted.com and rocketblocks is everything you need