Booz Allen Hamilton: An insider guide - Gymkhana

Interviewing Tips1. Booz Allen recruiters tell us that candidates often earn dings longbefore the case arrives. Many don’t know what’s on their resumes, can’texplain why they want to work for Booz Allen, slouch in their chairs, andotherwise project a low-energy demeanor.2. Practice case questions if you’re applying to Booz Allen’s commercialbusiness. Booz Allen won’t necessarily be looking for the right answer asmuch as for evidence of how you think. Your interviewer will also want tosee that you’re comfortable with numbers. One tip from our experts: Ifyou get a question that requires discussing numbers, be sure to pick thosethat are easy to handle (e.g., 1, 10, 100,000, 250 million).3. Demonstrate your enthusiasm for the intellectual side of consulting.Consultants really get turned on by coming up with excellent solutions todifficult business problems. If you can talk convincingly about how thatwill turn you on, you may convince your interviewers that you’re BoozAllen material. (Then again, you may just convince them that you’re nuts!)4. Take the time to structure your response. “A lot of the time, I seepeople giving their gut answers right away. You should take a problem,break it apart, and analyze,” says one insider. “If you can quantify things,that’s great.”5. Know your resume. “Your resume is supposed to be a list of the mostimportant things you’ve done on one page,” a commercial-side recruitertells us. “But it’s all a list of actions and results. It’s not a list of how youactually did those things. So if you sit down for an hour with your resumeGetting Hired69