Management consulting recruitment
Consulting interview coaching built around your target firms and markets
Selected through Harvard Business School’s Careers Service to coach first year MBA students preparing for consulting case interviews, Deep creates original cases tailored to the candidate’s target region, industry and firm focus, drawing on active consulting experience in project scoping, Excel modelling, PowerPoint storytelling and client-ready delivery.
- Selected through HBS Careers Service to coach first year MBA students preparing for consulting case interviews
- Original, bespoke cases built around your target region, industry and firm
- Detailed written feedback, PDF session notes and targeted practice resources
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Preparation
Bespoke cases built around the role
Deep creates original consulting cases and adapts preparation to the candidate’s target firms, markets and areas of interest.
Rather than relying only on standard casebooks, he can build exercises around the commercial and policy questions a candidate is more likely to encounter. Previous themes have included sustainability, housing, economic development, real estate, travel and tourism, market entry and public-sector strategy.
Cases can be tailored according to:
- The geography in which the candidate is applying
- The industry or practice area
- The style and focus of the target firm
- Whether the interview emphasises strategy, implementation, analytics or public policy
- The candidate’s current strengths and weaknesses
This helps candidates practise transferable case skills while engaging with contexts that feel relevant to their actual recruitment process.
Firm-relevant preparation without relying on confidential or improperly obtained interview content.
Breadth
Experience across cases, sectors and markets
Deep has worked through and coached a wide range of consulting cases across different sectors, geographies and types of commercial problem. This breadth allows him to help candidates recognise recurring analytical patterns while adapting their approach to different markets and industries.
- Sustainability and climate
- Housing and real estate
- Economic development
- Public policy
- Travel and tourism
- Market entry
- Growth strategy
- Organisational and implementation questions
- International and emerging markets
He has supported candidates pursuing roles across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Spanish-speaking markets.
Judgement
The techniques that distinguish strong candidates
Having reviewed and coached a large number of cases across sectors and international markets, Deep is familiar with the patterns that repeatedly distinguish stronger candidates.
He helps clients recognise what the interviewer is testing, prioritise the analysis that matters and avoid common mistakes such as over-structuring, excessive calculation, weak synthesis or recommendations that are not supported by the evidence.
The emphasis is not on shortcuts. It is on developing the judgement, flexibility and communication habits required to perform consistently across unfamiliar cases.
- Identifying the real decision behind the question
- Structuring without forcing a memorised framework
- Prioritising the most important branches of analysis
- Forming and updating hypotheses
- Recognising when an interviewer is offering guidance
- Interpreting exhibits efficiently
- Avoiding unnecessary calculations
- Checking commercial plausibility
- Synthesising rather than merely summarising
- Giving a clear and defensible recommendation
- Communicating confidently when information is incomplete
Programme
What coaching covers
- Case-interview structuring
- Market sizing and estimation
- Profitability and growth cases
- Mental maths and data interpretation
- Exhibit and chart analysis
- Synthesis and recommendation
- Presentation and written cases
- Project scoping and Excel modelling
- PowerPoint storytelling
- Behavioural and personal-experience interviews
- CV and cover-letter positioning
- Firm and practice selection
Notes
Clear notes during and after each session
Deep regularly works through cases, calculations, frameworks and presentation structures live on his reMarkable 2.
This allows the candidate to see how the problem is being structured in real time, rather than receiving only verbal feedback. Where appropriate, the resulting notes can be shared as PDFs after the session, giving a practical record to revisit between sessions.
- The case structure developed during the session
- Calculations and analytical steps
- Feedback on exhibits
- Key strengths and recurring weaknesses
- Alternative approaches
- Suggested wording for synthesis and recommendations
- Priorities and targeted exercises for the next stage of preparation
PDF notes are shared where useful and appropriate to the engagement.
Resources
Resources built through years of coaching and consulting
Deep shares relevant preparation resources developed and refined through years of consulting work, interview practice and candidate coaching. Depending on the engagement, these may include:
- Original case prompts
- Structured case frameworks
- Industry and market context
- Exhibit-analysis exercises
- Market-sizing practice
- Presentation-case guidance
- Excel templates
- PowerPoint and storytelling principles
- Recommendation structures
- Interview feedback notes
- Tailored exercises for areas requiring improvement
Active, relevant resources selected for the candidate’s current preparation needs.
Feedback
Feedback that makes progress visible
Deep provides specific, actionable feedback rather than general encouragement.
School-age students and parents
Where appropriate and agreed, feedback can help parents understand the topics covered, areas of progress, recurring academic weaknesses, examination-technique priorities, recommended work between sessions and appropriate next steps.
University applicants and professionals
Feedback can track interview performance, structure and communication, analytical strengths, recurring case-interview weaknesses, presentation quality, Excel or PowerPoint development and preparation priorities before the next assessment.
For adult clients, all feedback goes directly to the client unless they explicitly request otherwise. Written notes or PDFs can be shared after sessions where useful.
Process
How preparation runs
01
Initial consultation
Clarify the target role, firm type, geography, industry, recruitment stage, assessment format and deadline.
02
Diagnostic
Assess case structure, numerical confidence, commercial judgement, synthesis, presentation skills and communication.
03
Bespoke preparation plan
Select or create cases suited to your target firms, markets, industries and development priorities.
04
Live practice
Work through cases, exhibits, calculations, presentations or project-scoping exercises with direct coaching.
05
Detailed feedback
Identify specific strengths, weaknesses, missed opportunities and improved approaches.
06
Notes and resources
Where useful, share PDF notes, relevant exercises and active resources for focused practice between sessions.
07
Final refinement
Strengthen consistency, delivery and professional judgement before the interview or assessment.
Not every client requires all seven stages; the plan is set around your timeline.
Outcomes
Selected coaching outcomes
Harvard MBA coaching
Selected through HBS Careers Service to coach more than 10 individual first-year Harvard MBA students preparing for consulting interviews.
International consulting recruitment
Regularly supported students and early-career professionals pursuing consulting roles across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Spanish-speaking markets.
L.E.K. Consulting, New York
Coached a British student who subsequently secured an offer from L.E.K. Consulting in New York.
Professional deliverables
Supported clients with case interviews, presentations, Excel modelling, PowerPoint storytelling and client-ready recommendations.
Individual outcomes depend on the candidate’s experience, preparation and performance. Previous outcomes do not guarantee future results.
Perspective
First-hand experience of both the interview and the coaching process
Deep has personally completed a demanding consulting recruitment process and repeatedly coached others through it. He joined Dalberg Global Development Advisors after three rounds of case interviews, and was one of two candidates selected through that recruitment process that year.
At Harvard Business School, he was selected through the careers service to coach first year MBA students preparing for consulting case interviews.
This combination helps him distinguish between techniques that merely sound polished and the reasoning, prioritisation and communication that interviewers need to see.
Deep’s coaching is also informed by experience leading consulting assignments, structuring ambiguous questions, managing analytical teams and presenting recommendations to senior clients.
He served as a lead expert on a BCG-led consortium assignment and managed a nine-person multidisciplinary team.
He has also served as an interim economics director, allocating work and overseeing delivery across multiple client projects.
Why Deep
Consulting judgement built on real advisory work
Deep has advised governments, foundations, family offices, major businesses and technology ventures, and was appointed a Special Adviser to the City of Boston as a Harvard Business School Leadership Fellow. He has coached applicants targeting firms including McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Kearney and Strategy&.
- Asked by Harvard Business School’s careers service to mentor first-year MBA candidates preparing for consulting recruitment
- Selected through Harvard Business School’s Careers Service to coach first year MBA students preparing for consulting case interviews
- Joined Dalberg Global Development Advisors after a competitive three-round case-interview process
- Lead expert on a BCG-led consortium assignment, managing a nine-person multidisciplinary team
- Former UK Government Development Economist and diplomat, including managing UK World Bank shareholding duties and WTO-related work
Careers
Beyond the case: judgement, leadership and impact
Deep has recruited, managed and quality-assured professional teams, led competitive tender bids and advised senior decision-makers.
His coaching therefore covers not only interview performance, but how candidates demonstrate judgement, leadership, ownership and impact.
Through his consulting company, BisImpact, Deep won and delivered a competitive UK public-sector tender, leading the assignment from proposal development and contracting through research, stakeholder engagement, analysis and publication.
Separately, as an independent consultant, Deep has secured and delivered a range of other assignments for governments, foundations, donor programmes, consulting firms, family offices and private companies.
Testimonials
What clients say
“Deep walks you through the thinking process, recommends great resources, and frames his coaching in an intuitive way.”
“Very diligent, thorough, and engaging. Deep’s ability to pinpoint areas for improvement and build a structured curriculum helped me improve and build confidence.”
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