dimensions or skills make your case better

Here are just a few other dimensions or skills that could surface for you to better make your case:
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3 A7 u5 o( x1 a2 XSynthesizing research offline. Suppose you were the sort of person described above, where you were decent at case interviews but exceptional at thinking about information and processing it after a few minutes alone? What if you were really good at spotting trends within a lot of data? The presentation case format could make you shine.
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6 h6 F5 |6 O& w) A6 N) r3 NPresentation. You also don't get the opportunity to present content during a traditional case interview that you get during a presentation case interview. Some people are really good at making presentations, and such speaking skills are crucial to client project work. An important aspect of this is presentation structuring.
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7 K/ f2 K( x2 i  hTeaching ability. Consultants are often the experts who have to teach content or explain complicated topics to clients. Again, during a traditional case interview you don't get the chance to show off your teaching skills, whereas during some versions of the presentation case interview you do. 2 g/ Q7 y( h; L% S1 |

) V$ ?  S: X8 R9 S- n. M' ~Team skills. Some firms are using the group interview format mixed into all of this; occasionally you will need to work with other interviewees to structure and present a recommendation to the mock review board. If you are particularly good at building team consensus and playing well in the sandbox, this will work in your favor.
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; }  V0 g" t" h; Y. e' ^The upshot is that you might have to do some or of all of these things during an interview. The fact is, you are going to have to do all of these things as a consultant. You might as well see what it's like to do some of them during the interview process. And you might get some extra points for it. All in all, we think the presentation case interview is a good thing. It makes everyone in the process better informed, and that's better for everyone involved, especially you.