Note: This guide was designed with the McKinsey PEI in mind, but can be used as a storytelling framework when preparing for personal fit interviews with all consulting firms.
The average candidate invests only 10-20% of their total preparation time for the PEI. They struggle to understand the expectations from McKinsey PEI stories, what granularity is required and how to go about developing them. As a consequence, candidates often fail because of the PEI instead of the case component of the interview.
This package is an end-to-end solution for your McKinsey PEI preparation and the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource on the market. It aims to be straight to the point: no fluff.
The core material is a ~50-page guide, including a 1.5h video walkthrough presented by me. The course will enable you to:
a. understand how the PEI works and what is being evaluated
b. how to identify, develop and prepare your PEI stories
c. how to deliver your stories on interview day
The package comes with two other assets:
- A collection of 3 recordings of PEI stories told during real McKinsey interviews by successful candidates of mine (each recording includes not only their story but also my developmental feedback on their story).
- The StoryBuilder, which contains a story structure template and the top 10 most common questions for each PEI dimension (that I have personally collected from my candidates who interviewed across +40 McKinsey offices worldwide).
This guide is the only one available on the market that also details anomalies in PEI interviewing formats such as the ‘Values Alignment Question’ and the ‘Personal Value Proposition Question,’ including the role and office where these were asked.
Lastly, I developed this resource after coaching 1-on-1 over 200 candidates and having listened to over 1,000 PEI stories, and refined it with feedback from current McKinsey senior interviewers.