Hi recent grad here and wanted to learn more about strartegy consulting. What do you guys help clients with? What fundamentals must you know for this career? Why strategy?

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This is going to sound rude and I really don’t mean for it to be. I think In order to be a good strategist you need significant on the job experience (be it industry or consulting). Every campus recruit I interview wants to do strategy and my advice is always the same. Become a deep SME in a particular industry or domain and then you’ll be prepared to help clients with strategy. I haven’t seen it work well the other way around.

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💯 EY1. Consulting firms with strategy have been slowly moving back to MBAs without much world experience. I’ve worked with them and would rather do the work myself.

Make fancy slides convincing clients to go with a strategy that has no real chance of being implemented.

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Fancier the slide, unlikelier will get implemented. We still get paid.

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Step 1: spell strategy correctly

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