ChannelPulse
The McKinsey PEI
A twenty-five-minute behavioural interview that asks one question and then follows it with ten to twenty-five probes on the same story. Depth, not breadth — which is why a rehearsed answer that works everywhere else falls apart here, and why the preparation is a story bank rather than a script.
What you'll be able to do
- Explain how the PEI differs structurally from a standard behavioural interview, and why that changes preparation
- Map a story to the right dimension of the four McKinsey assesses
- Build a story using the three-part structure, with the bulk of the airtime on your thinking
- Survive the follow-up phase by knowing the six probe types and where a thin story breaks
Before this: synthesis-and-recommendation
The rest of this lesson is in the app
A twenty-five-minute behavioural interview that asks one question and then follows it with ten to twenty-five probes on the same story. Depth, not breadth — which is why a rehearsed answer that works everywhere else falls apart here, and why the preparation is a story bank rather than a script. This walkthrough runs about 24 minutes, with runnable code you can edit and re-run as you read.
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