Nine top tips for success in the case study exercise at interview

Nine top tips for success in the case study exercise at interview This is definitely assessment centre season. Lots of you will be researching your prospective employers, polishing your answers on why you want to work for them and getting ready to be proactive without being domineering at the group exercise. But what about the case study exercise beloved of many “City” employers? Here are 9 top tips on how to approach it. 1.Think Structure. It really helps if you can go into the exercise with some thoughts on structure in your mind. For example you might have to advise on the possible takeover of a company. What would you want to consider? This might include transaction financing, synergy (or otherwise) between the businesses, competition laws, real estate, plant and machinery, employees, how is this going to play in the markets. Get some rough headings in your mind. 2. Don’t panic if there’s too much to read in the time. Giving you a weighty file of papers and woefully inadequate time to read it all is a common tactic. Don’t panic, that’ll only cause you to lose reading time!