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Chief
You should leave at Manager. Senior is fine, but you'd have more leverage as a Manager to jump to a higher level.
My career advisor said that three levels are the perfect exit in consulting:
- 1 year in, as you'd have more experience than any 1 year experienced person outside of consulting
- Manager, as you can get to director in industry
- VP, to get to C level positions.
All other levels are sub optimal exits.
Chief
Sub optimal doesn't mean bad exit 😉 I think as a rule of thumb those three exits (C, MC, VP) are optimal in terms of time in consulting and possible exit-bump, both for title and pay.
How do people stay past 2 years? After the 2 year mark, I feel compelled to leave. I start hating everything at that point. Sure there are pro’s and con’s to leaving as a first year senior but this is all made up really. Bigger picture, it doesn’t matter.
Yeah I’m dreading this next year.
Rising Star
Do what’s best for you, OP. Advice like MC1 gave may work for them, but not everyone. I left ACN for EY right after my promotion to Senior for a big pay raise. It worked for me. May not for others since I had a lot of previous experience. I personally think that Senior and Manager are probably the optimal times to leave (for me) since I can own a product/work stream and use that to move into product management. If you’re looking to move into sales, then manager or senior manager (or Director at KPMG) would probably be best so you could really leverage BD work.
Consulting provides a very structured pay and promotion cycle. Moving to industry may provide greater comp initially, but tends to have fewer and lower promotions/raises.
Rising Star
That’s what I did. The best time to leave to a competitor tends to be right after a promotion since you should be able to pull a back to back 20+% raise and you won’t reset your promotion timeline. Obviously, politics can change that up significantly
Pro
Dang. I guess I should’ve gotten out way earlier.
With another offer*