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Are you me? I feel like all I've done is format slides, send emails and take notes. It's been 4.5 years 🙃
This got me. Just moved onto a new engagement where the Director's big focus is meeting prep, meeting delivery and meeting notes. Leaves very little time for actual work.
“Consultants are really good generalists but not really good any anything else” - a c-suite exec at a company I was pursuing a FT offer for 😭
My experience with the giant consulting firms is that we spend all day working at a client site doing what we think is the right thing to do for the client. Then at the end of the regular work day we find out we had it wrong and then spend the entire evening redoing everything from scratch. The final act is when your version 42 of the new deck is trashed the next day by the client.
Firm? Practice area? Major? Any interests you like? Favorite projects?
I’m a 2nd year staff and have had chronic anxiety over this same thing. The honest truth to me where I feel you develop your skills is just working in the firm and industry itself. Yes we make PPTs for a living but anyone from Staff - PPED is responsible for or has a hand in understanding staffing(basically hiring processes/HR), finance when it comes to resourcing and cost of engagement management, strategy etc. The real value I find is that I feel like regardless of what I do moving forward I’ve been exposed to/worked on all aspects of a business which to me is so much more valuable than just going through a 2 year SCM/Finance/Engineering rotational program post undergrad
Maybe I’m lying to myself but since I made that connection it’s been a game changer. I wfh next to my gf who is in manufacturing sales and I think the way working at the firm forces you to think allows you to pick up just about any job and be able to understand or at least relate to in some capacity. Job market I haven’t quite tested yet especially when it comes to moving back to industry so I’m interested in insight there
Same just same - and this competitive job market I feel like I can’t compete. Especially coming from the technical side of consulting
i feel the same too and i've been at the firm for ~4 years. i've been trying to be more vocal/reach out about initiatives/projects that interest me but it's just bad timing 🥲
What have been your favorite projects you've worked on? What about those projects did you like the most? What skills were you using that came to you naturally and effortlessly? What accomplishments are you proud of (inside and outside of work) and why? In your time in your current role, have you started to see a theme of needs or talents needed to be successful? I have so many more questions, but those are a good place to start.
The big piece upon reflecting is understanding WHY something was fulfilling and meaningful to you in your work. From there you can identify the types of skills, tasks, projects, values, work environment, team, leader, etc. that you want in your next opportunity.
can you precise which field of consulting ? Strategy ? Management ? Organisation ? probably not IT consulting ...
I feel the same way. In the middle of a masters program hoping it can help me pivot but no luck. Have you been looking for another role?
Dont worry…there are many ex-consultants out there in the C-roles who would be happy to hire you. Look for those companies )