Anyone else finding their generalist consulting skill set just isn’t cutting it anymore with potential employers? Think I might be stuck.

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Stuck like me! Welcome to the partner track my friend.

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Awareness is the first step and youve already completed that.

Consulting over glorifies moving around projects to get varied experience. While seeing different industries and projects is important, you still need to have a story coming out of these experiences. If you jumped around multiple industries but stuck to a specific function like M&A, ops etc, that's good for an exit to industry. Or you stuck to an industry and tried different functions. You have to decide for yourself if you want to be a functional or industry expert and stitch together project experience to truly be considered for an industry role.

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Good point!

What do you experience missing?

What would you like to be doing? I went from consulting to S&O and feel like the skills I’ve gained would allow for a pivot to product also

When’s the best level to exit

Undergrad

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