Spring Break
Cox event helps with interviews
Austin Reed, Contributing Writer, atreed@smu.edu
Issue date: 9/14/07 Section: News
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Click stressed that consulting agencies would typically look for well-rounded, pleasant people who would work well in a team, and that number-crunching and a heavy knowledge of statistics and formulas were only about a third of the qualities by which applicants would be judged.
He encouraged students and future applicants to think outside the box and be unique in their answers and their problem-solving skills.
Helpful pointers were also given on different methods of taking notes and the types of business-related questions which the students would be given.
"Great answers are made by logical thinking and process, not necessarily the 'correct solution,'" Click said.
Lastly, students were invited to take part in a mock case interview in which they were presented the problem of two fictional oil companies who had merged and were looking for ways to increase revenue and cut labor and technology costs.
Students took the part of an outside consulting firm who had to conduct a full evaluation of all costs, profits and management-related items to decide what had to be changed in order for the new company to gain money.
He encouraged students and future applicants to think outside the box and be unique in their answers and their problem-solving skills.
Helpful pointers were also given on different methods of taking notes and the types of business-related questions which the students would be given.
"Great answers are made by logical thinking and process, not necessarily the 'correct solution,'" Click said.
Lastly, students were invited to take part in a mock case interview in which they were presented the problem of two fictional oil companies who had merged and were looking for ways to increase revenue and cut labor and technology costs.
Students took the part of an outside consulting firm who had to conduct a full evaluation of all costs, profits and management-related items to decide what had to be changed in order for the new company to gain money.
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