4 YOE at EY Parthenon experience and I primarily feel like I had a glorified PMO experience. Has anyone else struggled answering strategic questions for industry interviews ? If so, how did you go about it?

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What type of strategic questions you couldn't answer.? Example ?

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Yup. That’s why I left consulting

Taking a “step down” role but that has the skill set you aspire to have

At least EYP pays $$$

Time you used data metrics to enhance a business process?

Where did you implement a strategy thats not M&A related?

What metrics to track success?

I’ve did market research but mostly execution.

Overall, I think I am struggling to articulate problem solving experiences outside of execution and not sound like I just collect updates.

DM’d to ask more!

Your experience is going to definitely be more than that, you just need to substantiate it. Reflect a bit on the engagements you’ve supported and determine what specific business problem your team was brought on to solve. Every major initiative, project, whether it be deal based or transformational, needs to be managed from a PMO perspective, you just need to qualify it beyond mundane tactical tasks like tracking actions items.

Honestly that’s the problem with TSE work. It’s largely PMO driven not insights driven hence not valued much outside. I’d try two options: network heavily to get on a non-TSE work like growth strategy or software strategy/DD or exit to a not so well known firm first but good function like corp strategy or biz ops and move from there.
Good luck!

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