Case Solving Associate
The case interview, practised properly rather than memorised.
Add it to your LinkedIn profile with the insiderOne logo, verifiable by anyone.
What you will be able to do
- Open a case with a one-sentence playback and the clarifying questions that change its answer
- Build a tailored issue tree for a business problem instead of reciting a framework
- Size a market top-down and bottom-up, and test the estimate against a second route
- Break a profit fall into price, volume and cost effects that add back to the total
- Turn a chart or table into one so-what sentence with a number in it
- Close a case with an answer-first recommendation, three reasons, risks and next steps
Students preparing for consulting, strategy, product or founder's office interviews, and freshers who keep being handed a vague business problem and asked what they think.
What is in it
- 1What a case tests, and how to open one10 min
- 2Issue trees and MECE, built not recited11 min
- 3Market sizing with Indian numbers12 min
- 4Profitability: finding the box that moved12 min
- 5Case maths under pressure11 min
- 6Reading exhibits and saying the so what11 min
- 7Synthesis: the answer first10 min
- 8Other case types, and how to practise11 min
Rasoi Lane: why profit fell
A written case solution: the clarifying questions you would ask, your issue tree, the maths worked step by step, and an answer-first recommendation with its risks and next steps.
About 125 minutes in total.
Two levels
Finish the units and the project and you get the Certificate of Completion. Pass the live skill challenge on Case Interviews at Practitioner level or above and it becomes a Verified Certificate, which anyone you send it to can check for themselves.
Questions
What does it cost?
Nothing while insiderOne is in beta.
Can an employer check it?
Yes. Every certificate has its own page, and the code printed on it resolves there without anyone needing an account.
Do I need any experience?
No. These are written for students and people in their first job, and they assume nothing.
What do I actually walk away with?
The certificate, and the piece of work you made for the project. That goes into your insiderOne profile as a proof item, private until you choose to show it.
Know someone studying this?
It is free while insiderOne is in beta, and the certificate is checkable by anyone they send it to.