Really want to leave consulting but seems like industry roles are few and far between. Any have a similar experience in KSA especially within corp dev and strategy roles.

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Mate just left strat consulting in Europe and took a corp dev job in Riyadh

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That's great news - how did you find the role? My experience has been a lot of it has been networking rather.

I've got a strategy role in Singapore I'm exiting to

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