Victor Cheng is a former

McKinsey & Company McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm founded in 1926 by University of Chicago professor James O. McKinsey, that offers professional services to corporations, governments, and other organizations. McKinsey is the oldest and ...

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consultant, public speaker, and

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of several books on business. He is a graduate of

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with a BA in

Economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

and an MA in

Sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of Empirical ...

. Victor started his career as a management consultant with

and later held senior management positions with Live Person and Art Technology Group (since acquired by Oracle Software). As a business consultant, Victor advises owners and CEOs of

small business Small businesses are types of corporations, partnerships, or sole proprietorships which have fewer employees and/or less annual revenue than a regular-sized business or corporation. Businesses are defined as "small" in terms of being able to ap ...

es and

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caliber companies in their corporate decision-making. He is a contributor to

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and writes on topics of leadership and

human capital Human capital is a concept used by social scientists to designate personal attributes considered useful in the production process. It encompasses employee knowledge, skills, know-how, good health, and education. Human capital has a substantial ...

in fast-growing small businesses. Victor also serves as an expert source for media outlets including

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, Fox Business Network,

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, Fortune Small Business, Inc Magazine, Entrepreneur, and

The Wall Street Journal ''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...

. He is also the author of "Case Interview Secrets: A Former McKinsey Interviewer Reveals How to Get Multiple Job Offers in Consulting" and the founder of CaseInterview.com, a blog catering to aspiring management consultants. He is a frequently cited expert on the

case interview A case interview is a job interview in which the applicant is presented with a challenging business scenario that he/she must investigate and propose a solution to. Case interviews are designed to test the candidate's analytical skills and "soft" sk ...

, a job interview format used frequently by the

management consulting Management consulting is the practice of providing consulting services to organizations to improve their performance or in any way to assist in achieving organizational objectives. Organizations may draw upon the services of management consultant ...

industry, and serves as a commentator on the

industry.

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