Career advice after leaving big 4 in the advisory/consulting service line?

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If you're in risk leave ASAP. Your only exit op is IA unless you network and upskill hard. Took me a lot of work to get out.

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Agreed. I see no lies here

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This will highly depend in what advisory/consulting service line you’re in?

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currently in IA/enterprise risk with my CPA

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Gotta move to IA at a big company, do it for a year while networking with other departments, and then hop to another group.

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What about technical accounting (TAC, AAS, FAAS)?

Or is there some other type of consulting you could switch to? Maybe at a smaller firm?

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