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Still struggling to decide on PEI stories

Hi, 

I wanted to ask a question regarding the PEI stories.

I have 6 months of work experience, so I think I should include a work story for at least 1 dimension. What do you think?

Overall, I am struggling with the following:

1. For the inclusive leadership story, the story that I can most likely most passionately tell is a story about my final master's school project, BUT I could alternatively also talk about a work story that is quite good

2. For the personal impact story, I do think that also a story during my masters is the best story that also shows my values (fighting for fairness), but I can also tell a story about work where I convinced my boss of something, as I do think that this is more applicable to consultant life.

Now I am unsure which one to use as the main stories..

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Clara
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am 6. Mai 2022
McKinsey | Awarded professor at Master in Management @ IE | MBA at MIT |+180 students coached | Integrated FIT Guide aut

Hello!

These are good questions, and ones with which most of us struggle, so I am sure this post will help many people. 

The answer about which story to pick, whenever you have prepared two for dimension (as it should be) is simple: the BEST one. Not the one that is related to work, not the most recent one, not the one that talks about something that you still haven´t mentioned in the other interviews… the best one simply. 

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am 5. Mai 2022
#1 rated McKinsey Coach | top MBB coach

Hi there, 

My advice would be to focus on the stories which fulfil two conditions:

  1. They tick the boxes of what is expected from that dimension (e.g., inclusive leadership)
  2. They generate the highest enthusiasm in you. 

Based on your short description of the stories, it's rather difficult to comment on the first one. However, it seems like you are more enthusiastic about some stories than others. It's critical that you tell stories that you're actually moved by because this will come across very clearly in your answer. Passion is something very difficult to fake and very difficult to coach, so use it to your advantage.

Ian
Coach
am 5. Mai 2022
Top US BCG / MBB Coach - 5,000 sessions |Tech, Platinion, Big 4 | 9/9 personal interviews passed | 95% candidate success

Hi there,

The big caveat here is I have not heard your stories, so I don't know!

But, from what you're saying, it sounds like #1 should be your final master's school project and #2 should be your work story (with your master's a backup story).

Be careful though, we are only getting a piece of your overall situation - ultimately there's a reason coaching is coaching!

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am 5. Mai 2022

If I were you the way I would approach it is. 

1. Pick the masters story which you have more conviction in 
2. Pick the work story you have more conviction in

Hopefully one is an inclusive leadership example and the other a personal impact story. 

With 6 months of work experience, I would suggest picking at least one work story. 
 

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Ken
Coach
am 5. Mai 2022
Ex-McKinsey final round interviewer | Executive Coach

It’s hard to have a view based on such high level summaries of your stories.  I would spend time thinking about what the sub dimensions of each PEI dimension (put yourself in the interviewers shoes) and choose the story where you feel has sufficient challenge behind those sub dimensions.  That said, it’s best practice to have two stories prepared per PEI dimension and so I would definitely work through both.

Maikol
Coach
am 6. Mai 2022
BCG Project Leader | Former Bain, AlixPartner, and PE | INSEAD MBA | GMAT 780

Let me just give you a bit of very straightforward advice: focus on what you say more than the topic you want/need to cover. 

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