Hi there, 

I would suggest to tell your story to someone who doesn't know you very well and test if:

1. Let them tell you in their own words what they understood: are you telling stories in comprehensive way?

2. Test a few stories to see which one seems “more exciting”

Beyond that, recapitulate different stories you could say and try to think what capabilities you would like to get out of that, then choose the best suit. 

Last but not least, learn the methodology we do tell stories in MBB, you can leverage resources here https://www.preplounge.com/en/bootcamp

You also have option to go for a coach, with one hour you should improve significantly. Feel free to reach out. 

Good luck,

Lucie

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On top of other responses:

• Prepare 2-3 good stories for each dimension (only team work in your case)
• Make sure your stories are relatively recent (no more than 2-3 years old) to remember as much details as possible
• Before the interview, practice how to share your stories using a situation-complication-resolution framing (starting with context, explaining the challenge and detailing how you solve it)
• During the interview, start high level giving 1-2 minutes overview of the situation and the big steps you took to solve it
• From there you can ask your interviewer if he/she wants more context or would like to focus on a specific part. Then share your story as you practice before (situation-complication-resolution)

Best,

Alberto

Hi there,

It's hard to say without knowing your stories and hearing them.

You literally have two options:

1) Find better/strong stories

2) Use the same stories but improve how you tell them

If going with #2 you need to figure out what is wrong with them. Ideally, get a coach so that you can go through the stories with him/her and edit them live!

I would take the specific feedback more around your storytelling and delivery than the sorry itself.  Having said that, if you feel you have stronger stories or if you feel you can better articulate different sub dimensions of each PEI dimension then I would definitely do so.  It’s worth remembering that many first round interviewers on average have only done a small handful of actual interviews (some actually for the first time!) and so I would take their feedback as the law either.  Good luck!

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Hey there,

Regardless of your feedback in the first round on PEI, you should always prepare new stories for the second round.

If you want to know how, have a look at this article I wrote or also happy to work on your stories together in a session. :-)

https://www.preplounge.com/en/articles/mckinsey-pei

All the best,

Florian