Can someone explain why everyone wants forensics disputes and investigation but not fema or compliance? Just want to get an understanding of the difference.

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Feedback I’ve generally heard:
1. Passion - Disputes/investigations are more interesting for people who want to do forensics (is FEMA or compliance really even true forensics?)
2. Pay - for people who want a long term career in forensics, disputes/investigations are where the $ is (look at the stark difference in comp between EY and other firms)
3. Pigeonholing - for people who want to keep exit opps open, disputes/investigations are where the learning opportunities and transferable skills are (why would advisory/consulting or a Fortune 100 company want someone who’s only experience is churning out niche paperwork for grant programs?)

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So…golden handcuffs? Theres a huge difference between not having exit opps and just making so much money you don’t want to exit to begin with. Kind of weird to be complaining about making too much money lol

The work is a lot more interesting/fulfilling in investigations, disputes, compliance, and insurance claims. FEMA work right now is driving a lot of business right now and it’s pretty basic cost recovery. If you know how to read contracts, procurement doc’s, then you can do FEMA cost recovery work. It’s more consistent than the other work streams and the teams are usually filled with pretty good people. But the work is dry and it’s not very transferable to other areas of practice

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Great thank you for the advice EY1, are you in forensics yourself you seem very knowledgeable !

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