What is the most effective way for a MBB/T2 manager to transition from the Middle East to Europe?
Should I rely on online applications and networking, or are there specialized headhunters that could help?

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If you’re not an EU national and don’t speak the local language of the place you’re applying to, then you can forget about it. Basically practically impossible.

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What if I am and speak the language?

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WLB is not great in consulting anywhere parts of it are growing. But why would you want to do that? Pay in ME is much higher, even before the taxes.

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Consulting there is not like booming, most of the incomers are: internal transfers, people brought by new partners and juniors from the business school majority of current partners went to

The other thing is that the pay is literally peanuts.

IMO, Europe is good place for retirement but not competitive career-wise. The wlb and life outside work is nice though, no doubt about that.

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