I’m one year in consulting and feel like I’ve learned nothing tangible or useful technical skills. All I know is slide design. My buddies at IB all at least know how to model in excel. Is it just me?

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Not just you.. I will leave this industry and never come back

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You know how to design ppt slides and they know how to design Excel workbooks. It’s really not that different.

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Do you want to join them? Do you want to learn modeling? Not sure what you are asking for ;)

Not just you. We are glorified PowerPoint artists.

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Artist is it

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Not just you. Starting to look for exit opps but they all list some sort of technical skills which I haven’t learned in consulting

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Can you list what some of these skills are? I’m curious to see if I have any of them haha

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Is the slide design moving things around and making stuff pretty? Or have you learned about storyline and how to do the analysis to support it?
The latter is an especially valuable skill (in my humble associate opinion - tell me if I’m wrong😅)

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In my experience everyone can work on their storytelling. Look up "Pyramid Principles" by Barbara Minto and think about your horizontal and vertical logic flow whenever creating content, even an email

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I was told I would using sql and python. I have forgotten my skills since I’ve come in. I was better at my last except it had worst pay.

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Maybe try to get a more technical role? My first project was just slides, now I’m an Anaplan model builder and don’t even touch PMO. There’s pros and cons, but it’s a lot more tangible of a skill.

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Advanced excel skills are critical even if you don’t use any right now. Good news is it’s a very teachable skill - I suggest you get cracking

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LinkedIn learning has some really good, thorough material. YouTube can help with specific point you want to practice more / get a deeper understanding of (and often link to those practice sheets). On that note, try google searching for excel based interview practice. Also sites like investopedia have online learnings / trainings. If you don’t want to stay in consulting forever and want to later pivot elsewhere, that’s a good way to frame / target those resources too. It’s great you’re taking the initiative!

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If you are interested in a technical role then I would express that to your coach (or equivalent). In the meantime I would recognize that while it feels like a useless skill, learning how to convey the story of a project or tool to a client is very valuable. As you role over to more technical work you may find that being able to convey value and the “why” of a tool is a huge benefit

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May sound harsh but how do you expect to switch to a technical role and be just as valued as you are now? You may want to evaluate if being happy/challenged at work is more important than making more. You also don’t necessarily have to take a pay cut. I know many of the digital roles are on par with Advisory and S&

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