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Case Study Interviews - Part 1

Manager Tools

Mike Auzenne

Management, Leadership, Strategy, Feedback, How-to, Skills, Advice, Development, Careers, Coaching, Business

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Part 1 of our overview of Case Study Interview techniques, questions, and preparation.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Manager Tools. Case Study Interviews Part 1. Here we go. Today's cast answers these questions. What is a case study interview? What kinds of questions are there in case study interviews?

0:15.0

How can I prepare for a case study interview?

0:18.0

Well if we want answers to these questions and more, keep listening.

0:21.0

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0:27.0

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0:32.0

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0:35.7

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0:40.6

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0:45.0

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0:51.6

Today we're going to talk about the question that often comes up on interviews, which is you're five inches tall and you're the size of a nickel and you're at the bottom of a blender, what do you do?

1:05.0

Yeah, that's a particularly bizarre.

1:10.4

Particularly bizarre.

1:11.4

Yeah, question. Yeah, you're referring to one type of case interview questions, case study interview questions, which most people don't realize the estimation questions or the math questions that we'll talk about are actually part and

1:27.6

partial of the larger idea of case study interviews that one about the blender and being able to jump out and so on I find

1:36.3

just bizarre. But many people will learn on this cast that the rest of those estimation

1:40.8

questions will walk through one today are not bizarre.

1:45.7

They're absolutely normal and in fact case study interviews are just a specific form of

1:52.2

behavioral interviews.

1:53.2

That's all they are.

1:54.4

Yeah, and people wouldn't listen to manager tools if you just thought of managers as

1:57.6

Dilbert, right?

1:58.6

So there are ridiculous case study interview questions, and then there are those that make absolute sense and after

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