Thoughts on exiting to public finance investment banking? This is distinctly different than pure investment banking, curious to know if any of you 🐠 have exited here and what your experience is like.

Recommendations on the best podcast, book, or other medium to learn more about “entrepreneurship through acquisition”?

Do you ever regret leaving agency life?

Would you rather work at McKinsey or in a Product Manager role at a company like Cisco / Indeed / Atlassian as a new MBA grad?

(1/2) Hi all, based in the UK 🇬🇧, would appreciate your advice on how I could break into product management.

Context: Graduated in 2019 (Finance), 2 years at EY as a business consultant on mix of pmo projects and tech projects where I was developer (data vis, power platform, sql, vba, data analysis etc.). Joined Google on a 6 month contract as a data analyst.

Should I be applying for product analyst roles? Should I apply for strategy consulting? Could I go straight for prod mgmt roles?

I’m a tax senior in big 4. Which role in the industry has a better career trajectory in terms of growth and pay: senior accountant or senior tax accountant? I do a lot of tax provision and starting to find tax interesting but I’m not having a lot of luck finding openings for in house tax roles.

I joined TCS 2 days back. Today I got the better offer from Deloitte. What should I do? Should I resign from TCS and joined Deloitte or stay with the TCS.
Please suggest.
YOE:6yrs
Stack: Cloud

Doing some career planning and wanted some advice. I have 4 years for project management experience in production and I just started PMing at an ad agency.

1.How long should I stay in this position before making my next move?
2. What should my next move be?! (Stay in the company and try to scale up or move on.)
3. Would getting my PMP at this point be helpful?

Hi all! I recently finished my Masters in Biology. I worked on a few studies with human subjects as well as animal work. I am hoping to get a job in clinical research as either a CRC or CRA. I previously worked at a doctors office as a care manager for 4 years, but outside of my academic work I don’t have experience in research. What advice do you all have for entering the field in my position?
Thanks!!

I’m an incoming associate in a tax group this upcoming summer/fall in Chicago. Super nervous to start. What are some advice you wish you knew in your first year or would give to a first year?

Hi Folks,
How do you think is the future of Google Cloud.
I am trying to switch to GCP so please advise.

What are good exit opportunities that exist for someone who has worked 1 yr as an analyst at a boutique firm?

I'm a Communications major and a Management major. I have a Marketing concentration and a System Information & Business Analytics concentration. I accomplished this in 4 years and will be graduating this semester.

I have experience working as a Business developer and account executive at a start up company in the robotics industry.

Questions:
What type of job should I be looking for?

What type of certifications should i be looking at?

Any over all advice in to my career path is welcomed.

Employer is 100% sponsoring MPH and decided to take it to further expand network and it's decent (T20). Wondering if Epidemiology or Healthcare Management would be a better concentration? I'm currently in pharma and the goal is at graduation I'll have a good amount of experience and a little bonus (MPH) to be competitive for experienced hire roles. ZSers, what are your thoughts?

Hi,

I will be joining PWC AC bangalore soon.
Is there any policy for higher education support(executive mba) or support/reimbursement for certification like TOGAF, scrum, PMP or other certification to take our career development forward.

Thanks

Karen what is the creative best work of your career? What work propelled you to your current role?

Dear Partners-
Have any of you switched firms to make P? Worth it? Tips? Have always planned to make at my firm, but my firm isn’t keeping up their end of the deal, so I’m job hunting....

Anyone else feel like Chicago has very limited "upward" exit options, especially for tech? It seems like outside of consulting, most people who earn a higher incomes are in trading/banking/PE 😕

How important is prestige for exit opportunities compared to actual work done? Will a big name firm always trump a smaller less known firm that your average person doesn't know?

How many people get promoted to S1 from A2? Didn’t do well in A1.

What are exits for tech transfer? Have an opportunity, but idk if I want to work for university commercialization offices for the rest of my life

Feeling like it's only a matter of time before I have to tell the new marketing dept head that the snazzy jargon just makes him sound like a tryhard and alienates our customer base

Do you find your flexibility is exploited now that travel is banned and you're working from home? Specifically tech consulting I.e..
> 50-60+ Hours a week
>10+ hour days
> Regular weekly nights/weekend/on-call

Who hires junior strategists? Where should I start looking? I’m loving my planning internship right now, but I want to apply elsewhere in case I don’t get an offer, but I’m not seeing anything open.

Can someone explain the LTA policy? What happens if I don't claim any travel bills? Can I claim it as a taxable component monthly?

For new hires of Jpmc,
Only get a MacBook if you already have a windows pc, citrix workspace works best on a windows. In mac you cannot use shortcuts like Alt+tab inside the VDI. So choose wisely

Which firm has the best deals practice?

Anyone have any suggestions for a horse professional expert? Preferably located in the northeast.

What point do should send the "not into you" text to someone you've just started dating? I try not to disappear without a trace

What are some good phone apps to use for practicing case math?

I’ve worked at the same well known tech company since I graduated school 8 years ago. I’ve been promoted 3 times so I’ve held a few different jobs within my org.

BUT .. I’ve applied to a few companies and getting no responses. Is it a deterrent for hiring managers/recruiters that my experience is based primarily at one company?

Does TCS employees get any special discount in Croma stores?

Anyone from JLR ?

Going into my first weekend sober. Kind of nervous TBH. I know I can do because I've decided I'm going to do it, but I will definitely be feeling temptation. Wish me luck and share your coping strategies

Favorite VC fund for tech startups? Any that you've heard terrible things about/that I should avoid like the plague and which ones am I more likely to have interested in me? Fintech product, with a social aspect to it.

Marketing Career: When should I move to the director level? I have 4-5 years of Growth Marketing experience and my salary is stuck at $100k. I want to make $200k within the next year - what should I do?

I hope everyone is doing good.
I am looking for a role in Alteryx , power BI, sql , python. It would be great if I could get a referral.
I am a immediate joiner with 1.7 years of experience.

Anyone looking to sublease an apartment in downtown Chicago for the month of June ? I have a 1 bedroom in the aqua building(225 n Columbus) corner unit, fully furnished. 850 square feet, with a balcony and amazing views. Steal deal if someone is interested with an option to extend the lease.

Anyone joined Non-technical teams or about to join ?? This week or next week

Interested in a San Francisco/Bay Area networking/support group for consultants that have been laid off?
See comments for more details

For those that have been laid off, how’s the job search going? Have you gotten offers fairly quickly (I.e. 2-4 weeks after getting the notice)?

Hello! I’m going to BSchool in August. Any recommendations on books / websites / videos to be more prepared for management consulting interviews?

ACN people where can I find discount programs for employees? Looking to see if there's anything special specific to home owners insurance.

Here's a question I wish I never had to ask. Is it better to use the code for bereavement leave or just burn pto I'm going to lose anyway? Does it make a difference from a utilization standpoint?

Poll: What dress code do you follow at your home office?

Question for D fish here: any idea why Verizon’s iPhone 8 is $150 more expensive that ATT’s (on DNet?). Previous iPhone prices were at same level. I want to switch from ATT to V ...

Any good business/consulting books on amazon kindle that y’all have read that has helped you in your job?

Food for thought: if we all woke up on Monday and decided not to work that day, all of our clients would continue to exist and operate without us.

Is there a secret code word to use when wanting to strike up a conversation with someone you suspect to be a fellow consultant e.g. at an airport?

Syncron. Integral Partners. McBee.

All these companies I only know exist because they’ve like my posts...

What are your thoughts on the fact that there are multiples posts asking for your thoughts on the recently introduced tax plans? I'm fiscally curious.

Book recommendations? All genre welcome but I usually read nonfiction

Thoughts on thoughts on thoughts on MBA?

Not motivated to go out on the weekends because travel has you feeling all type of ways

Nothing worse than being sick on flyday. Any tips to make it through my flight?

do we need to disclose etfs/index fund investments in GIS?

Latteraling to new firm. Do you share your current Non-disclosure Agreement with HR during the recruitment process?

Best consulting firms with best WLB? Do they exist? Young professional starting to think about where I'd like to work hard to end up in the next 5-10 years.