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The Interview Client Aims to Cover 80 Percent of the Job's Scenarios
· New York time
McKinsey's planned AI client simulation aims to reflect 80 percent of scenarios its consultants might encounter in daily work, according to The Wall Street Journal. Some entry-level candidates would converse with it for ten minutes. The 80 percent figure describes the exercise's intended scenario coverage, not demonstrated hiring accuracy or a measured share of consulting judgment. Breadth of situations and quality of assessment are different ambitions. That makes the simulation's design especially consequential: a brief encounter is being asked to represent a wide professional landscape. Applicants may be meeting a fake client, but the compression is real. Consulting has finally found a meeting that claims to contain most of the other meetings.
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