Practice interviews
Video interviews are becoming increasingly popular with graduate employers in the early stages of recruitment. To help you prepare for them, it’s really useful to practice to get a sense of what it’s like before you do the real thing. The Careers Service subscribe to two platforms to help you with these.
Graduates First
is especially useful if you have a video interview coming up - but also for face to face, skype or phone interviews too. Now you can practice those interview skills any time day or night!
CaseCoach
CaseCoach is the leading online case interview prep platform, created by former McKinsey interviewers and headhunters.
CaseCoach provides everything you need to prepare for case study interviews used by top consulting firms and other employers, including:
- Bite-sized video lectures covering the 12 key skills assessed by the firms across both the fit and case interviews with tips and techniques on how to build and demonstrate these skills.
- 27 interview videos featuring real candidates who went on to join Bain, BCG, and McKinsey, with detailed commentary on their performance.
- A library of 80+ exclusive case studies with solutions, with a scorecard like the one your interviewer has on the other side of the table.
- A practice feature, to organize mock interviews with other students, within Cambridge or at other schools, and track your performance.
- Math, structuring and exhibit drills to hone in on critical skills.
