Consulting firms, like McKinsey especially, use the Personal Experience Interview, or PEI, to assess whether your career and life experiences would enable you to work with clients effectively. Consulting is a relationship business. The case interview tests analytics.  So the PEI is used to measure whether you can handle the interpersonal aspects of a job in consulting.

Succeeding at the Personal Experience Interview is critical for passing the interview and obtaining an offer. Based on its importance in the interview process and all the questions I have received over the years on succeeding at the PEI, I have developed a Guide on how to do just that.

While my Guide is not available to the general public, it is available to you for a short window before this recruiting season.