Currently I'm working as a business consultant (advisory role, not management consulting), mostly in digital transformation practice. I'm looking to pivot to a more M&A advisory role.

Where and how should I start preparing? I'm thinking of learning about fundamental analysis of stocks on the stock market first, is that a good first step??

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Is there truly no hope? I felt like joining advisory on digital transformation has just ruined my career path

Clarifying questions: What do you like & dislike about the current work? What are your core competencies?

- what I like: the environment;
the working environment provides me with leniancy of making mistakes, learning from it, and improve myself

- what I dislike: the work being done and competency of managers above;
throughout my digital transformation projects, there have never been any insightful data analysis. Most of the time, problem definition and solutions are frequently dictated by the client without supporting data, leading to frequent and arbitrary design changes by the same person even if they have approved it before.

- Core Competencies: I was a data scientist before pivoting to consulting, where I initially expect to use my data analysis skills to identify pain points and recommend data-driven improvements. However, it turns out that most of the time we only interview the client for pain point gathering and solutioning, without any meaningful data analysis. Thus, I believe my skills are particularly well-suited to finance-related fields, such as investment banking and M&A advisories, offering a more robust analytical approach than the client-interview-based methodology on my current work.

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Hhhmmm wont be easy esp. if u dont come from a corporate finance background... Try to do it in 2 steps or so.. so first step perhaps through PMI with a focus on IT? Or at least TechDD... Then next step would be more M&A related

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