What exactly are the questions asked during the personal experience part? Is it:
x Personal Impact: How did you persuade sb?
x Entrepreneurial Drive: How did you achieve a goal?
x Leadership: Where did you take the lead in a specific situation?
And how many of these questions are asked per interview?
Thanks a lot in advance!
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Hi there!
The good news is that it is much easier than lots of candidates assume. Most of the times, it will be very clear from the beginning what the interviewer is looking for. Or in other words: you should know immediately whether it will be Leadership, Personal Impact or Entrepreneurial Drive.
The most basic questions your interviewer can ask in your McKinsey PEI:
The full and original blog post you can find here: https://pei.consulting-case-interviews.com/blog/typical-mckinsey-pei-questions/
In addition, there is another answer in the forum listing more typical PEI questions:
Entrepreneurial drive
Leadership
Personal impact
Hope that helps for a start!
Robert
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Dear A,
I'm sure, Robert explained it nicely. What I can add is that for proper communication of your personal stories you can use this structure:
1. Situation (background)
2. Problem (Complication)
3. Your approach (how did you manage this problem)
4. Results (Outcomes of your approach)
5. Your learnings (what you take from this situation)
If you can apply this framework to every of your PEI stories and communicate in a top-down way, you would definitely leave great impression. For more details, feel free to approach me.
Good luck,
André
Hi there,
Mostly each interviewer spends around 15 min for behavioral part meaning that maybe you will hear a couple of those questions.
However, it is more about how well you are prepared for that kind of questions. For example, if you are talking about your leadership story, I would suggest you to first think about the dimensions of leadership. For example, those can be some of them: empathy, taking responsibility proactively, stepping up but also stepping back and letting others grow, focusing on value etc etc... It is great to think all of your stories in a way that how you are addressing those dimensions. Then your stories will be impact stories. In this method, you can sell yourself without sounding that you are selling. Most of the times, it is not about what story you are talking about but it is more about how you are talking about. Hope it helps.
Cheers
Serhat
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