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Consulting and professional services sell judgment.

Consulting and professional services sell judgment. Prelim measures analytical rigor, client communication, and problem-solving through realistic work samples — so you hire people clients trust.

The hiring problem

Case interviews are only as good as their consistency.

Professional services firms already know that case-based interviewing works — the problem is that quality varies wildly by interviewer, making it hard to compare candidates fairly across a pipeline. Prelim standardizes the case exercise itself and scores analytical reasoning and client communication against one rubric, so the firm's hiring bar doesn't depend on which partner happened to run the interview.

  • Analytical & case reasoning
  • Client communication
  • Problem-solving work samples
  • Judgment under pressure
Real hiring scenario
Senior Consultant, management consulting firm
Challenge

Traditional case interviews measured performance under artificial pressure but varied wildly by interviewer, making offers hard to compare fairly.

Approach

Prelim standardized the case exercise and scored analytical reasoning and client communication against one rubric across every interviewer.

41%
reduction in offer-decision time
FAQ

Questions teams ask us.

Can case exercises be tailored to our practice area?+

Yes. Analytical cases can be built around your firm's actual practice areas rather than generic consulting scenarios.

Does this work for lateral and experienced hires, not just entry-level?+

Yes. The rubric and case complexity scale to seniority, from analyst through principal-level lateral hires.

How does Prelim assess client-facing communication specifically?+

Scenarios include client-communication components scored separately from analytical reasoning, so both signals are visible.

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