What are som exit opportunities for consultants working in the Federal space? I know most consultants go to industry when they leave the consultant lifestyle, but do us federal consultants go to industry too or are options limited for us with federal jobs?

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Depends on what you do in federal. Your work can be indistinguishable from your Commerical peers or it can be so federal-centric you can literally never do anything outside the federal space. Personally, I’ve been in federal my entire career post military and have had interviews (up to the offer stage in most cases) at The Strategy Group at capital one, Wayfair, had a few interviews with Uber, etc.

It’s all how you frame your experience and how transferable it is.

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Federal-centric examples - memo writing on national security strategy, anything that requires expertise in policy, government processes, etc

Non-fed centric - building a digital transformation strategy for a large enterprise, building a cost model for a client, anything analytics, tech implementation, the list goes on

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To quote a friend: exit “opportunities” are endless (one could, in theory, exit to be an NBA player, police officer, product manager at Google, cult leader, or a struggling musician). I think you’re worried that a specific area or kind of role might be harder or less realistic given your work. Is there something specific you want to do?

I recently jumped to pre-sales engineering and love it so far.

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