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At ADAPTOVATE, interviews serve as a great opportunity for both parties to better understand if skills and competencies align with respective needs and motivations.

For candidates, ADAPTOVATORs would love to know more about you and your journey. Since we partake in Business Agility Consulting as well as Agile Coaching services, these are several aspects that we look for in our interviews:​ 

  • Identifying key information​ 
  • Prioritizing issues​ 
  • Ability to structure a problem​ 
  • Drawing conclusions from facts​ 
  • Resilience/motivation​ 
  • Tolerance for ambiguity 

Being an ‘ADAPTOVATOR’ means being part of an incredible team and having opportunities for personal and professional growth. In line with our feedback culture, throughout the interview process, ADAPTOVATORs from the Talent team and/or interview panel will help to navigate your path towards progressive improvement.

ADAPTOVATE interview process

Thank you for joining this journey with us.

1
Talent scout interview

On this call, the talent team will want to learn more about you, your motivation to apply for the role and experience in consulting and agile.

2
Case interview 1

This round of interview will be led by a Project Lead to assess your consulting and agile skills through a case study.

3
Case interview 2

This round of interview will be lead by a Principal or Partner to assess your consulting and coaching skills through a case study.

4
Managing director partner interview

Decision round!

Partner interview will assess your skillset in relation to the role

5
References

Before we can give you a job offer, we will talk to two references who have worked with you in the past.

6
Offer

Congrats, ADAPTOVATE is giving you a job offer! We hope that you’ll make the decision that’s right for you, and we’re excited for you to join our team!

7
Onboarding

Welcome to ADAPTOVATE! New hire onboarding will help you to get all settled in for the first day.

8
ADAPTOVATE training

On week extensive internal training to learn the ADAPTOVATE ways of working and getting you ready for your first client assignment.

Career Interview Tips 

At ADAPTOVATE, we embrace innovation. There are no “right/model answers” for case interviews. Our recruitment style promotes diversity at all levels, including diversity of thought, which underpins the values of ADAPTOVATE. To help you out, these are a couple of recommendations:​ 

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  • Identify the case interview question category​ 
  • Clarify the question the interviewer is asking​ 
  • Identify the missing information and ask for it​ 
  • Don’t be afraid to ask for time; it is ok to take 1-3 minutes to gather your thoughts​ 
  • Share initial thoughts and ask for feedback​ 
  • Restructure final solution, identify next steps and logically frame them 
  • Time period (short term, mid-term, long term)​ 
  • Plan to implement / find out information​ 
  • Bucket and group information together 
  • Write proposed solutions down, so that it is easier to frame your thought process​ 

Sample case study – Client

The client has been in business close to 90 years. The original founder started in the whisky business and over time expanded the product line so that today it is a multi-million dollar business with less than 5% of sales coming from whiskey.

Background

Last year, however, several possible internal / external events happened that caused our client to pay attention to their whiskey brand. While the market declined at 2% our client’s brand declined by 15%, despite selling 10 million bottles.

  

The whiskey market size in the U.S. (our relevant market) has been declining at 2% over the last 20 years and our client’s brand sales has been declining at the same rate. The company has neglected the Whiskey brand for many years as they were focusing on other products. 

Question

What is going wrong that has made sales of the client’s brand suddenly decline? 

Poor performance
Average performance
Superior performance
Structure/Framing problem

“I don’t think whiskey demand is poor – my family drinks lots of it” 

“Poor performance in whisky could be due to competition from other brands. I would look at what other competitors are doing”

“There are a number of factors for declining sales, which can be categorised into demand factors and supply factors. For demand factors, the main ones I will examine are: a) consumer substitution (i.e. drink other alcoholic drinks, b) brand substitution (i.e. drink other brands c) seasonal impact, d) economic impact (i.e. in a poor economy people cut back)” 

Identifying relevant information

Starts asking for a variety of information – no clear logic

Asks a series of specific questions related to a single logical line; can process answers and move on

Defines information needed, including rationale; lays out plan for how to gather that information 

  • Internal interviews 
  • External benchmarking
Drawing conclusions from facts

Cannot calculate breakeven correctly 

  • In face of contradictory evidence, recommends price decrease 

Correctly calculates breakeven; may account for fixed costs 

  • Recognises that lowering price fails to meet goals

Calculates breakeven correctly, sees implications for pricing, moves to logical alternatives 

  • Potential price increase 
  • Alt. marketing approach 
Identifying key implications and next steps

Limited or illogical additional recommendations on where to improve; formulaic approach

(eg, spend more on marketing)

Needs to be asked for ideas on potential solutions 

  • A few ideas for how to improve

Drives to potential solutions on their own 

  • Prioritised list of alternate opportunities

Locations

CANADA

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Canada

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AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND

Sydney


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Sydney NSW 2000

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Melbourne


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Melbourne VIC 3000

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Auckland (Tāmaki Makaurau)

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Grafton, Auckland 1010

New Zealand

UK

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London W1W 5PF

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SINGAPORE

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Singapore 039190

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POLAND

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USA

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Costa Mesa, CA 92626

USA

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