What kind of consulting did you all do and where if you exited to PE investing roles? Every single head hunter I’ve spoken to says these MM firms want banking experience

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Strategy consulting at LEK. Did a lot of growth strategy, M&A screens, and DDs. Definitely had to kinda fight my way in and prove I had technical knowledge down. I think if you’re at a Bain PEG or McK PEPI, you may be able to target funds like Advent, Berkshire, Bain Cap which are a little lighter on technicals / modeling and understand where consultants are coming from in terms of skill set. I had to do 3 hour modeling test and get through technical interviews.

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What type of fund are you at?

Yeah echo the above. If you’re MBB lots of UMM firms are open to it. If you’re not your mileage may vary - just work hard building connections w all the HHs

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MBB and some T2 if you are a tippy top performer with a good story. Everything else is hard.

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It all depends upon if you are going in Operating roles vs Investing roles

I’m only looking at investment roles

pre-MBA many MM funds will hire more consultants than bankers, especially MBB. The other post listed a few examples

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