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Hi! Thanks for your comment. Growing into new geographical markets or expanding into new businesses are things that Anna ruled out in the beginning (see where she crosses out the branch "Growth from new markets or business models" at around 7:15. Absolutely, the company could expand their target market by growing in this way, but Anna already asked clarifying questions in the start that made it clear that that's not in scope. Hence, the breakdown of growth into market size and market share that you see at 10:10 only refers to the existing market that they are already in. Hope that clarifies things a bit!

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Hi! Nothing wrong with using frameworks if you know why they are structured the way they are and they are MECE. In the case of the 3Cs, the best way to describe it in a MECE way in the context of a growth case is the following: Growth = growth potential x company's ability to capture that potential. Growth potential = market growth x potential market share gain. Hence growth = market growth x potential market share gain x company's ability to capture the potential. Which in a simplified way then translates into CUSTOMER x COMPETITION x COMPANY.

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Thank you for the suggestion. We have been getting questions about this topic and will be adding it to future content!

Absolutely! Top management consulting firms hire based on your problem solving skills, your drive and your people skills, not based on which specific educational background you have. Architecture and civil engineering are obviously great platforms for building your problem solving muscle! You might find that they spend more active recruiting efforts toward students from finance backgrounds or industrial management engineers etc, but that is just because limited capacity is prioritized where the hit rate is the highest (i.e. where they find the biggest proportion of interested and interesting candidates). So go for it!

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Thanks for the kind feedback! To be fair, we also sell a course :-) Wish you the best of luck as you embark on your McKinsey journey!

Hi! Thanks for your comment! A couple of reflections: 1) Yes, as Anna points out in the beginning of the video, this is just a small part of the PEI interview, specifically covering how she goes about influencing others. The remaining parts of the Personal impact interview, where we go into other elements that are being assessed, you can find in our course along with all other materials we have on PEI. The curriculum is here: buildaskill.co/mckinsey-pei-digital-course 2) Yes, 7-8 minutes is a reasonably good target for how long your story should be as you prepare it. But don't expect it to be a monologue once you are in the actual interview. As you tell your story, you will be interrupted, asked to go deeper in certain areas, talk about specific events in your story that you may not have planned for, etc. So see it more as a conversation than a monologue.

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Hi! There is a full video on inclusive leadership in our PEI preparation course. You can find the curriculum and sign up here: buildaskill.co/mckinsey-pei-digital-course

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Hi! We will publish video materials for courageous change on our site -> buildaskill.co/ within the next week. Go check it out!

Thanks! Good luck with your interview on Friday! You can find more material and a few articles here -> buildaskill.co/blog <- if you need more inspiration!

Awesome. Good luck with your preparations!

Generic questions like that may very well come as part of the initial setup, as a conversation starter basically. We will post a video on this specific topic tomorrow - stay tuned :-)

The "tell me about yourself" prompt is typically just part of a warm-up. To make sure the candidate gets a bit more relaxed before getting into the interview. So think of it just as how you would introduce yourself in any interview setting. Try to make it quite short, don't get into too much detail about stuff that can anyway be read from your CV. And of course, it's also a good opportunity for answering the implied question: "why are you here? what is it about consulting that interests you?" And thanks for reminding us about another FAQ we should answer in a short video :-)

Thanks for the nice feedback! We will be adding more content - meanwhile, check out this article: buildaskill.co/blog/mckinsey-pei-questions-answers-mistakes and more similar content on our site!

Hi! Thanks for the nice feedback! We will be publishing more video content on other PEI dimensions - for now, check our site, e.g this article here: buildaskill.co/blog/mckinsey-pei-questions-answers-mistakes or reach out to us on info@buildaskill.co for 1-1 coaching!

Looking forward for the videos, thanks!

Update: I was able to get an offer from McKinsey. Thank you so much for the videos! They were so helpful :)

That's really great to hear! Congratulations on the offer and enjoy the world of top tier management consulting!

@@michaelmike13 Hey man, I'm trying to get an offer from McKinsey myself. Can you share how you prepared for the case interviews and how many reps you had to do to really know you're ready? Would appreciate hearing stories about how the interviews went as well.

Thanks for the nice feedback. Happy to hear the content is helpful! We will keep adding FAQ videos, so thanks for the questions! Quick answers here though: 1. Yes. In most interview processes (differs slightly by office) you will have more interviews than there are dimensions, so by default you will get the same more than once. 2. If you do, it's good to inform the interviewer that it the story is from a situation you have already talked about with another interviewer, since they will talk to each other. Some interviewers might then ask you to pick something else, but most won't care. Everyone will ask their own follow up questions, so it's not that big of a deal. 3. No. But interviewers will note down if there are things they pick up that are outside the dimension they are currently interviewing for.

Got it, thank you so much for the reply!

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