McKinsey & Company Hi McK 🐠 I am joining next month as an associate and my PD just reached out to get my industry and functional priorities. 1. Could you help me to shed some light on how important this decision is? Will this be set in stone / actually influence my staffing that much? What if I want to change the priorities? 2. Could you share your experience about certain industries / functions? E.g. how the culture is, what type of projects are common etc.
thanks a million in advance McKinsey & Company

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Are you joining as an experience hire or as a fresh out of Bschool hire?

@OP if you’re an experienced hire you gotta hit the ground running. I’m sure you can talk your way into getting 3-6 months without honing down, but after that 3 month make PD will be expecting an answer fast.

PD asked me but staffed me on something I wasn’t interested in

PD will staff You on a project with local leadership. Staffing is crazy right now so it truly doesn’t matter what you say you prefer right now as a new hire
If you get something you absolutely don’t like you can push back

This is not super important- often times they’ll try to match you with a first project that matches your background to try to help ease the transition. You’re not picking your path or anything. Many folks do what we call a “random walk” when joining to explore a bunch of different industries and functions.

Don’t feel obligated to pick anything - but if there is a specific area you know you’re interested, then maybe PD will try to get you a project in that space if available & a good fit for your development.

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