Congratulations! You managed to have an interview scheduled with your dream Consulting firm. Whether it is McKinsey, the Boston Consulting Group, or Bain & Company, you successfully went through the resume screening and you have an interview planned in a couple of weeks.
And now let’s jump in time. Your interview is scheduled in 3 days. Hence you can feel the pressure increasing and many questions pop up in your head:
Am I ready? Have I done enough cases during my preparation? What’s the case I am going to have? What are the questions that the interviewer will ask me?
Imagine if you could know the type of case you will have during your interview. It would be pretty cool, isn’t it?!? As a result, you could have more time to think about your structure or about the questions to ask during the case.
In this article, you will find how you can guess the type of case you might have for your interviews.
Call to confirm your interview
Call your contact (HR most of the time) one day before your interview to confirm the meeting.
Make a brief phone call, politely confirming the time and place of the interview the following day.
As a result, you will look professional, organized, and engaged, putting you on a positive footing before you even start your interview.
But of course, it does not stop there 
You can use this call to grab some useful information
Here is the trick:
During that call, besides confirming the time and place of the interview, ask the name of the person you will have an interview with.
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Leverage information on LinkedIn
Firstly, if you managed to get your interviewers’ names, check their profiles on LinkedIn.
Secondly, if their LinkedIn profiles have been completed, it’s a gold mine of information!!!
For instance, perhaps your future interviewers mention their functional expertise (for instance, cost efficiency) and their industry expertise (for instance, insurance).
On the other hand, if their LinkedIn profiles are incomplete, search for their names on Google, or read articles they wrote or newspaper interviews they gave.
Therefore, you will find information about their functional and industry expertise.
And guess what…
You will likely have a case with a cost-efficiency issue in the insurance sector!!!
I have been advising my clients to do this for 5 years, and 60-70% of the time, it has been verified: they had the type of case they expected after checking their interviewers’ names.
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All the best for your interviews!
Sébastien
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It seems so simple to use LinkedIn, but using it intentionally is a science! Great break down.
Thank you Greg