Case Prep Lifecycle
Case prep is a 4 phase lifecycle:
Basic Learning: candidates familiarize themselves with the different types of cases and become accustomed to various frameworks; they identify their preferred frameworks and learn to deploy them during cases
Repetitions for Fluency: as they do cases with partners, candidates become familiar with quickly using their preferred frameworks and improve their recommendations with sprinkles of business-specific insights
Good to Great: candidates realize what marginal improvements they can make to deliver a great case interview
Peak: candidates do a few cases a week to sustain their peak performance; doing more than this can lead to burnout where candidates sound robotic and lose their enthusiasm when doing cases
Basic Learning includes drills and practice cases without a partner including following along with videos
Threshold for peak: the number of cases a candidate needs to do (with a case partner) to hit peak can be a very individual value; many candidates with a good business background hit their peak after 15 to 20 cases with a partner if they are strategic with their approach while others I have interviewed have hit peak at around 30 cases; there are exceptions and I know some who did 50 cases
Where Case Boost adds the most value is during the Good to Great phase because the cases we pick are moderate to high-level of difficulty and we provide a lot of detailed feedback. Generally, the feedback portion of each session is longer than average and we often cover all the paths that a candidate could go down during a case.