International Business Consultant

This is, surprisingly, another variety of the same question, but it is tricky. The reason is that you want to show that you are a leader and a great team player, so when answering this question be cautious to use an example that does not suggest that you failed to “step up”—i.e., failed to live up to the expectations of those around you. Much better would be to use an example where you were unsure at first whether X was the right course of action, but upon further contemplation, decided that it was—and then did X to the best of your ability.

Say that you feel that business development is the heart of a healthy business and it is extremely rewarding to see a business grow on the back of your decisions and actions.

As long as you’ve prepared and practiced an answer for each experience/interest on your resume, this should not be hard. (In most cases, for college students especially, the answer is easy: it was time to return to school!)

If your previous job was not in Management Consulting (as an intern, for example), you can use this question as an opportunity to compare your previous experience to Management Consulting, and why you think the switch is a better fit for you.

For this question, in a Management Consulting interview, there is no grey area in your response to this question. You believe integrity is important and that business people should go out of their way to avoid any questionable situations.

You also could suggest that maintaining client confidentiality and prioritizing the needs of the client are highly valuable and necessary priorities for any successful businessperson—especially a Consultant. (For Consulting firms, these attributes are critical to their business.)

Firms want to recruit future leaders, and so a small part of the interview process will be around “shows signs of leadership.” These questions appear to be becoming less common, but they still occur.

You need to draw on your experiences and have prepared a couple examples of leadership and of obstacles faced, and how you overcame them as the leader. It can be in sports, in a college experience, or even in your previous work experience.

Similar to the previous question, firms want to recruit future leaders, but they also want to hire good team players, so there will also be questions around how you act in a team environment (remember, all Management Consulting projects are done in teams).

You need to draw on your experiences and have prepared a couple of solid team examples and also examples of issues you faced and how you dealt with them as a team player. Showing solid initiative is also evidence of leadership; knowing how to navigate a difficult situation in a team dynamic will earn you big-time points with the interviewer.

Be prepared with an answer that uses examples from your previous work and educational experiences to highlight your strengths. Be specific. This is a question you should be able to respond to automatically and flawlessly.

Agile is basically a technique that uses several light-weight methodologies such as Rapid Application Development (RAD), Extreme Programming (XP) and SCRUM. All these methodologies focus on the development of iterative solutions.

The two documents are FRD (Functional Requirement Document) and SDD (System Design Document).

As a business analyst, I would develop a document stating clearly that no change will be accepted after a certain period of time and get it signed by the user.

This is just another version of the team and leadership questions. Rather than answer directly what you would do, give an example of your own when you were faced with such a situation and describe how you dealt with it and how it might apply to the current situation.

A good idea for this variation of the question is to note that it really does depend on the situation and that the most important things to keep in mind as you weigh your options are respect for all individuals involved, and honoring the needs and priorities of the client.

It is a process of comparing and determining the difference between two things or processes.

It means Joint Application Development.

It is the alternative solution or activity in a use case that should be followed in case of any failure in the system.

BPMN Gateway is a processing modeling component that is used to control flow of interaction, sequence of processes.

Extends are actions that must take place in a use case.

This is a silly question, because who would answer “no”? But this is an opportunity for you to highlight specific examples of you working well under pressure. Be careful to avoid examples where you could have prevented being under pressure, such as by procrastinating.

As for managing your time, the interviewer wants to hear how you prioritize key tasks, set specific time and action goals, maintain to-do lists, etc. If you keep a detailed, organized planner, show it to him or her and explain your system!

They are three in number, namely as Unexpected Delighters, Performance Attributes and Must Have Attributes.

It means Software Engineering Body of Knowledge.

These are the unexpected situations or results in an application.