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Deloitte people gonna be TRIGGERED when they finish up 70 hours of PMO work this week and realize they’ve been lumped in with Accenture and IBM 😂😤
So you work at IBM, got it
No harm in starting your search. The whole “you look like a job-switcher” fright is old fashioned. Get out when you get something good
SC1 I’m giving myself 10 months. If I don’t find something by then, I need to stay more and learn how to better bs my resume in the meantime since getting on meaningful projects has proven ineffective 🙄
Must be tiring working for 3 consulting firms.
I’ve been searching for over a year...
The real question is when should you stop.
OP I think you should really wait it out for a year unless you went to at least a semi-target for undergrad.
Remember you are competing against Tier 1 and Tier 2 for exit ops. The smart thing to do would be to really spend some time to prepare for FAANG first rounds. So start planning now, but don’t hastily just apply to roles. Prepare for it!
To avoid “Groundhog Day” of being in the same situation “a few months in” at your new job, spend some time thinking about what kind of work you _really_ want to do.
If that involves the well-trodden path through FAANG, find out what it takes to be an appealing candidate, but resist the temptation of following the herd. That may be what landed you in your current fix
Where do you want to go and what do you want to do? I’d say - start your search now, learn from the interview calls, and sharpen your marketing strategy about yourself. For me, I was in the same boat and started search around half year in. I wanted to go back to industry where I came from. Based on my conversations with some leading companies, I learned what they like and don’t like about people from consulting industry, and the expectations of the tenure at consulting firms for the type of role I was looking for. So I stayed to accumulate some skills (but kept very close observation on job market because it changes fast). Generally speaking, my situation is that I found it useful to have 2 years under my belt which makes story more complete as to why I am going back to industry. But everything me has a different career story so you need to find your own and sell it.
You may as well start. It’s taken me 5 months so far.
OP not in TC so looking more at business oriented ops (think marketing, growth strategy, etc)
Life is too short to be unhappy. Do whatever you want
As long as your story makes duration shouldn't matter a whole lot
A1 what roles are you looking at?
Here’s something that I’m surprised nobody has asked yet, why do you want out?
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