Hey yall currently a newly promoted Staff 2 in audit, if I wanted to make the move to advisory/consulting, what would be the best moves to do so without going back to school?

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First is understanding the difference between advisory and consulting and being able to tell when things called consulting are actually advisory. Put it this way, if someone is willing to hire you as you are into consulting, it’s probably actually advisory. Actual consulting, not to mention strategy consulting, is a game of OCR or late career contributor roles. Maybe if you went to a consulting target you could switch. Advisory, just kill yourself for good ratings and switch internally through a referral or internal piepline rotation that will take a year, or change firms.

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