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Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
The ability to navigate a wide array of strong personalities is vital in any role within the management consultant industry. Therefore, your interviewer is curious about your approach to building relationships with difficult personalities. Showcase your ability to learn from others despite differences in perspective or opinion. Exhibit your enhanced communication skills, negotiation and mediation skills, team mentality, and positive attitude and outlook on the world.

Kimberly is a freelance writer and editor with a decade of experience in the education field, including her time as a pre-kindergarten teacher.
"One of my coworkers and I were doing a joint presentation to a prospective client. It was a high-stakes presentation, and he and I have very different styles of performance and preparation. Luckily, we both identified this as a potential obstacle from the get-go and came to the table with our ideas on how the outline would go and who would say what. Because we were both able to identify that we could clash and took a proactive approach to delegate tasks and distribute the presentation, we worked very well together and hit our performance out of the park."

Kimberly is a freelance writer and editor with a decade of experience in the education field, including her time as a pre-kindergarten teacher.
"Recently, we received a project from a client that required my department to collaborate with another department. It was up to me to ensure that everyone worked smoothly together. The other departments' manager and I decided to start with a team-building night out, and that helped a lot. Once everyone found common ground, we could focus on the task at hand."

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