As a new director who grew up in consulting, my leadership is expecting me to open the door at new accounts and bring them new work. I don’t even know where to begin without a mentor or MD/Partner to show me the way. Any advice on how to approach this?

When do we get salary ?
Last day of month?

How much salary should be for..7 years exp .
Domain - integration/middlware.
Skills - 2.5 yrs in mulesoft. ..??

Hi new to dfw area looking to buy a house. How’s the commute downtown from Frisco/McKinney area?

Interesting debate with a colleague: which is more personal/intimate: oral sex or intercourse?

For those that are home grown (at least 2 levels) into the PPMD level, how has your relationship with juniors that you’ve been close to from the start evolved? Have you had to pull away from them (intentionally or not) or are you just as close? Is the saying “it’s lonely at the top” rung true for you?

Hello fishes, is it a red flag when I'm the ONLY one on my team who's happy with the management, meaning my boss and my boss's boss? Other than the two bosses, we have 6.

What are some most common guesstimates asked from PM's?

Anyone with connections to the BBDO recruiter who can help a fishy out?

Has anyone lost a job opportunity because your counter offer was too high?

Anyone know what the interview process for the Strategy & Innovations analyst at CVS Health is like? Anything specific I should prepare for?

What are MBA offers now in consulting starting next year ?

Has anyone successfully used an education benefit? What's the process?

Im interested buta little nervous about my firm because you have to pay up front and then get reimbursed.

Hi, Required reference in Accenture for Program Service Coordinator post. If anyone can give reference please let me know.

You’re either not valuable to your company and/or your job isnt that important if you’re able to take PTO and not at least send some e-mails.

Anyone at M&A strategy at KPMG willing to connect?

I think KPMG has a pretty good training and onboarding process for new FDD hires (Lakehouse bootcamp, reading and training materials for review, and the shadow program). How’s onboarding and training looking like for PwC / EY / Deloitte?

This is my first yr having access to an FSA through my wife’s benefits. Trying to decide on an amount to contribute and it’s tough. We may or may not get pregnant this year and that’s a huge. Cont..

Best way to get a home improvement loan? Any red flags/tricks to know? Is it worth it if o have the cash (would wipe out a lot of savings). Kitchen and removing walls is about $80k

Any clue when the scatter plots are out?

There is an opportunity in another office to build out their business in a large industry that I identified. The office has very little client base within the industry. The partners do not have experience in the industry and there are no senior managers or managing directors in that office. As a SM4, how do I go about asking to build out that business with the hope that it’ll build a strong case and accelerate my path to partner?

Anyone got the skinny on Alix consulting?

Got pinged by a recruiter for an MD role in digital transformation

He claims they compete with MBB and Alvarez.

Thoughts?

How do you identify potentials in people?

Partners: where do your clients come from? Do you spend more time acquiring new clients or using your network from past projects/peers?

Who has started business travel? How many trips have you made post lockdown?

Looking for advice in context of being a EY SM that will be part of NewCo if it goes through. Would I be better off shooting for MD this year vs waiting 2-3 years for Partner?

Joined EY 6months back as a tech consultant. My feedback so far has been great. What should I do to get the company sponsor my mba? I haven’t initiated the talk yet

How did you find out what you want in life? Feeling lost mid-career..

Does the concept of local and high value role exist is Deloitte, Accenture or PWC?... been consulting for 13 yrs

Just heard FY23 partners at PwC are getting only 40 shares vs.60 last year. Looks like new partners are being shown the middle finger by Tim Ryan in favor of increasing stock price and getting more catalyst hires. Sucks!!

How early in someone’s career do you generally identify if a homegrown person is partner material or not? M and up or earlier?

Big 4 partners, can you provide any insights into the Partner v MD decision when you were up? Were you given the option? Can you share the pros v cons, especially from salary and pension standpoint.

Partners - do recruiters/headhunters ever reach out to you? What types of roles/levels do they reach out for?

When you independently search for other opportunities (if you do), what types of roles do you look for?

Heard that partners at MBB that focus on public /social sectors (higher education institutions, government, non-profit orgs) get lower salaries than peers. Is that true and by how much?

Partners/Principals - how do you focus and continue to work at the same rigor, if you have made your numbers or 75% of your numbers? Do you take it easy or continue to grind/ work long hours as usual?

Folks - Which is a better option .. Deloitte MD or ZS Partner? Similar comp.

For the partners/mds/directors etc how are you protecting your money with the new administration? I’m assuming Biden’s plan will help the lower class but for the upper class I’m sure there have been strategies your advisors have been telling you. I currently have 20k in savings and feel like it’s just getting inflated away.

For KPMG PPMD, how long did you spend at the director level before making it to MD? How long at MD to Partner?

When do we typically know if we made it to Destination in PCLDE?

And what is worse - getting another lap now before going into destination or going into destination and getting another lap then?

Are all 529 plans not allowed if one makes partner at PwC? Seems like everything is showing up as not permitted on independence checkpoint.