Associate with almost 1 year of experience in IT Strategy at Big 4. Would technical skills and certifications be valued? Happy to join at entry level. When is a good time to apply to Digital McKinsey / DigitalBCG (focused on these because they’re probably a better target for my skills - would like to do some generalist work too)? Thinking of early 2021. Thoughts and recommendations?

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Few more years, do an MBA, apply.

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DBCG here. I think that’d be helpful but not with 1-2 years of experience unfort. Associating yourself as a D BCG consultant (DAS) is consultant or up, so you’d need 2-4 years of experience at minimum. Even then, you’re better off taking B1’s approach than taking the technical route,which would align you more with our plantinion practice

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Digital McK does hire people for more digital generalist roles at a few years, I would try to network your way into one of those

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Thanks! Hearing that I should either look at entry level generalist roles by showing the standard strategic thinking skills these firms expect, or get a few more years of experience and/or an MBA and then look at more technical roles.

Will probably aim for the former as I’d like to do the generalist strategy consulting role and only thought to highlight my technical skills because I thought they could be a differentiator at the entry level.

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You're off to a good start well summarizing a bunch of "partner" feedback spat at you 😂. Crush it!

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