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The opportunities seem to get better as you climb the tree with Kearney. When I was a BA, there was a point where I was searching and trying to leave. Opportunities I found felt mostly limited to what you describe.
Now that I’m an Associate and looking again, I’m having better luck. Going through the interview process for several different business strategy roles in industry.
Give it time. The path you forge for yourself here will open up more doors and better roles
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I imagine any exit op for a BA is going to be limited...especially with that attitude.
What job is it that you think you want? Or do you just want “more”?
And the “Exit Op” for a BA is SBA. At Kearney, you don’t even start learning certain skills until the manager level.
My recommendation: a healthy dose of humility and gratitude.
OP, there are two other letters in the acronym that you can shoot for lol. Also, if you did in fact have an MBB offer and you chose Kearney for any reason that’s on you 100%
As a BA at Kearney right now, please stop OP. It’s a small firm and you’re giving out information that could dox you pretty quick, and this is the wrong thing to burn your current bridges over
There are close to 500 Kearney alum at FAANG companies currently. Op have you considered that maybe you just aren’t that great?
Yeah and in what roles compared to MBB!
You’d find better exit opportunities if you were a better analyst
🙄a bunch of my Kearney friends have left for tech; can only think of one who left for an operations/procurement/supply chain role and that was with Apple.
Mostly s&o
Really? I thought you guys did a lot of strategy work
I’ve been at Kearney for several years (started as an analyst) and all but 3 months of my time have been working on top line strategy projects for blue chip firms. A good amount of that work was won against MBB in direct competition. I am fully aware this is not the case for all projects and much of what we do is NOT strategy, but don’t generalize your experience as a BA (indicating you’ve been at the company for a year or less, unless you weren’t promoted..) to be representative of all the experiences at the company. Also, wouldn’t it be more productive for you to just leave the company instead of post something like this? Lateral moves to MBB from Kearney are very doable, I personally know many folks who’ve done it at the junior levels.
Three of my closest friends (Associate/Manager) exited to Corporate Strategy at Netflix, Google, and Nike in the past year. Idk if you’re still at the BA level, but that’s probably what’s limiting you.
lol that’s funny^ must be a small company
I’m ex ATK (8 years with the firm) who then went to tech and now at MBB.
Kearney was an amazing place to work, learned so much, great foundation for my career. My spouse at MBB as well.
OP, make your own destiny vs wallowing in envy.
Yeh this BA is a bit immature and spouting off nonsense on this thread.
I know number of former Kearney folks who have exited into strong roles into strategy and ops roles. Maybe you’re not from a top tier b-school? That may have made a difference for these folks
Sorry for the confusion D1, I was addressing OP, not you.
I mean, COO is an operational role. I wouldn’t lose sleep over that exit opp.
Right and how many of K consultants are CEOS
Same
If I can make it to strategy at FAANG coming from KPMG then you can definitely do it from Kearney. If anything it’s a you problem buddy.
Same for MBB. They somehow have access to better exits because their name is just so HUGE.
A simple search of ex Mckinsey or BCG vs ex Kearney will show you difference in quality of opportunity
OP from your posts - I am not sure why you chose Kearney. However, there are great exit opportunities that are available by working at Kearney; assuming you are a high preformer.
It's a glass half full type of mindset.
Sounds like OP is a troll just poisoning the well as opposed to taking constructive feedback.
No one is saying Kearney is the best in the world, but it can get you pretty much 90%+ of the same opportunities that an MBB exit could get you.