Commonly Asked Consulting Interviews Questions

The Commonly Asked Consulting Interviews Questions is all about “getting to know you.”

They will ask you to come up with several examples of times when you influenced or persuaded a group, about your relationship-building style, and about career goals that you set for yourself and were successful in meeting. Interviewers will ask you several questions drawn from your resume (anything on your resume is fair game). They may even ask, “Your life is a newspaper article. What’s the headline?” These interview questions are also applicable on junior consultant. 

What they are looking for:

• a confident, comfortable demeanor and strong communication skills (Are you a nervous wreck?)
• leadership ability and initiative (Forget about the time you organized that keg party.)
• ability to be a team player (Do you play well with others?)
• drive, aspirations, energy, morals, and ethics (Do you have any?)

In this part of the interview you should be responding, not thinking.

If you take the time to prepare and answer these questions before the interviews, you will be more articulate and focused when it comes time to perform.

• Tell me about yourself.
• What are you doing here?
• Why consulting?
• Why did you pick your school?
• What do you think consultants do?
• What do you know about this job and our firm?
• Why would you choose our firm over our competitors?
• How are your quantitative skills?
• What percentage is 7 of 63?
• Tell me of a time you showed leadership skills.
• Tell me of a time you were a team player.
• Give me an example of a time you influenced or persuaded a group.
• Tell me about a recent crisis you handled.
• Have you ever failed at anything?
• Tell me about a time you took the initiative to start something.
• What type of work do you like to do best?
• With which other firms are you interviewing?
• Which other industries are you looking into?
• What accomplishments have given you the greatest satisfaction?
• What experiences/skills do you feel are particularly transferable to our organization?
• Why should I hire you?

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