Difficult International Business Consultant Interview Preparation Guide

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Hitting targets and achieving goals is your main motivation. Say that you are motivated by the desire to do a great job and to help improve business.

Benchmarking is about measuring performance of an organization to compete in the industry. In this process a company may measure its policies, performance, rules and other measures.

Agile Manifesto is a guide for software developers about the development principles to ensure iterative solutions.

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) matrix is developed to analyze several of business processes and new product offerings from companies. It is a useful tool that can be used in portfolio analysis, strategic management, product management, and brand marketing.

It is one of the agile methods, used to develop iterative information systems. In this method a small team works on the assigned tasks for a time period of 30 days usually.

It is a term derived from use-case. Unlike use case, a mis-use case is something that shows -what kind of malicious activities can be performed by an actor that may result in system failure.

It is a decision making technique, also known as 80/20 rule. It is used for quality control and defect resolution. It explains few factors that can be responsible for big problems. It is named as 80/20 rule, because as per this rule, 80 % effects in the system, arises from 20 % causes.

If you did get one, that is a positive answer. Explain why you got the offer, and why you’d rather work in Consulting instead.
If not, find a way to logically explain why you did not. Do not go too deeply into negative details surrounding your work performance, unless you have a well-thought out way to explain how this will not happen in your next job.

When we perform any activity in a database, such as addition, deletion, modification, searching etc. is said to be a database transaction.

OLPT stands for On-Line Transaction Processing; such systems are capable to perform database transactions and are meant to provide good speed for database transactions. These systems are mainly used for data entry and retrieving data from the database.

Analysis of sales data should help to identify possible new markets. This would be followed up with some market research.

Teamwork is central to most roles today; few people work in isolation. Answer that you like seeing how a group of people with a wide skill set can work together to achieve results not possible by any individual.

For the least enjoyable part of teamwork, try to keep it positive by saying that you sometimes prefer to concentrate on more complex problems in a quiet environment so there are times when the team environment can be a little distracting.

This question is less common today, largely because the answers to it tend to be pretty bland.
However, be prepared with an answer that shows an accomplishment that is not necessarily the standout point on your resume. It allows the interviewer to learn about another accomplishment that is not as obvious, and thereby gain more insight into you and respect for your abilities.

INVEST means Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Sized Appropriately, Testable. It can assist project managers and technical team to deliver quality products/services.

The pair-Choice Technique is used to give priority to various items in a process. It is mainly used when distinctive stakeholders are involved in the project. This technique asks from the group to compare each item with the other and select the one having highest priority.

Personas are used instead of real users that assist developers and technical team to judge the user behavior in different scenarios, more clearly. Personas are basically social roles, performed by any actor or character. It is derived from a Latin word meaning character. In marketing terminology, it represents group of customers/end users.

It means Failure Mode and Effects Analysis. It is a failure analysis, that is used mainly in product development, system engineering and operations management. This analysis is performed to figure out various failure modes and their severity in any system.

Fish model is comparatively very costly and time consuming, while, V model requires less time and cost. Moreover, Fish model is used when there were no ambiguities in the customers' requirements. Otherwise, other model is preferred.

Say that you enjoy working in a team environment. Describe the environment in such a way as it sounds similar to the work environment you believe the company has adopted.

To answer this you need to show a good understanding of the company and say that you are keen to be part of a dynamic team to help the company grow and develop. The aim of business development is to develop growth opportunities, so you must show a keen interest in working with their products and services.

The answer to this question can go a lot of ways, but be cautious not to be too dramatic. Use the questions as an opportunity to highlight your skills, experience and interests—especially as they may apply in the Management Consulting profession.

There are primary and secondary actors. Primary actors start the process and secondary actors assist them. Moreover, actors can be of four types such as Human, System, Hardware and Timer.

As the name implies, activity diagram is all about system activities. Main purpose of activity diagram is to show various activities taking place in an organization in different departments.

Say that you listen to their needs and then propose a solution that will meet a majority of their needs. If there are any gaps in the product offering, explain that workarounds can be developed to ensure that business runs smoothly.

If you have an example from work experience this is ideal, however, do not be concerned if you do not. You could give an example from your private life, such as persuading a friend or family member to get involved with something they were not really interested in. Good sales skills are transferable to life.