Just graduated from Darden with my MBA. Have a Masters in Finance from a few years back as well. Spent ~4 years at Booz Allen doing public sector consulting and just hit 3 years doing M&A Advisory (client facing) at a multinational IT consulting and outsourcing company. I'm interested in moving to MBB when hiring kicks off in the fall. Was wondering if anyone was available to potentially have a conversation?

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^This. As an experienced hire you’ll face a much tougher job trying to make inroads. But good luck I guess.

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This is good advice and very true! I have an offer from a Deal Advisory & Strategy group at a Big 4. Just figured I would try my luck!! But it's not the end of the world, as you mentioned! Deff great experience to be earned at many places!

You still can make it. I also studied part-time MBA (still do not like this word since we had the same workload on top of full-time jobs and families) and pivoted to BCG as experienced hire after graduating (no campus recruiting). It is possible, good luck!

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Thank you so much, this means a lot!! Thanks for showing it's possible!!

Hiring for on campus kick-offs late summer / early fall, in many cases it’s harder to join as an experience hire in this window because the recruiters are slammed with campus hiring.

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Of course! That makes sense, and is in line with what I've heard!

Curious why you didn’t recruit through Darden? Becomes quite a lot harder to recruit outside of school channels

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Great question! I was actually in their first PT MBA program. The opportunity for internships just wasn't there for us. Since we graduated they just created a path to do an internship in the program. I wish it was the same for us. In retrospect, I probably should have quit my job and gone full time. Figured the opportunity cost of losing 2 years of employment was too much. But I guess time will tell!

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