When you’re applying to consulting firms as an experienced hire, what criteria do they use to determine at what level they should hire you at? For example, Senior Consultant vs Manager, or Manager vs Senior Manager

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Depends. Are you coming from industry or another firm?

Sales experience is the deciding factor on what level someone gets at Deloitte, IME. No consulting sales experience = generally gets SC. Hires from MBB and other boutiques or MAMAA can get M easy. But I’ve seen GPS personality hire people without sales/consulting into SpecLeader positions to attract more gov contracts. Really only seen people hired into SM roles as boomerangs or other B4 hires that pulled a connection string/nepo.

If you’re a specialist, really push/demand a higher position even if you don’t have sales. I wish I would have known that. Had 15 YOE industry and didn’t know better that I should have come in as manager. But then again I probably would have rage quit because manager level sucks horrifically.

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Normally there’s a leveling down industry vs B4 consulting, usually case by case basis, plenty of exceptions.

Outside of big tech and pharma, typically a director in industry is equivalent to a manager. Senior manager/manager equivalent to senior consultant.

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