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soo my sleep schedule is effed up, i keep trying to wake up early-ish (7am) but i’m lacking motivation and i wake up tired 😴
i stumbled upon this article that talked about this book. we always hear about the “secret” of strong leaders is that they wake up early. has anyone read this/tried it out?
5 AM Club, The: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1443460710/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_n2GdFbJJEFKSN
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Guys there’s this boot camp that I came across that trains people to get jobs in Top consulting firms and has a fee plan wherein you pay once you get placed. I just wanted to know if someone here has any experience with this ?
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Just check out JDs for any sort of bizops, strategy, bizdev, etc. type role at prestigious companies... they will almost certainly cite consulting or IB experience as requirements. Consulting and IB experience theoretically validates you as a competent, hard-working professional, which takes some of the legwork out of assessing candidates on a resume basis. It's not foolproof but there's logic to it. I'd advise sticking around long enough to get a promotion and then head out. Having a promotion validates that you actually succeeded in your role; a lack of promotion may call into question whether you were good enough at your job to earn one (folks may assume you're leaving before being promoted because you are being nudged towards the door due to subpar performance). All just my opinions.
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The best advice I can give you is research the FAANG opps that you want to target and make sure you build those experiences into your resume from the big 4. Almost every exit opp requirement at FAANG is available for you to learn or gain experience from at the big 4 so you have to be conscious of getting those skills on your resume. Tech / cloud and data skills are in high demand at FAANG, with typical title of sr product manager or technical application manager.
I’m trying to get into cloud! Trying to get the AZ-900 and AWS Cloud Pract. before I graduate so I get into a cloud team.
Data scientist here.
In my experience, the name brand helps. Big 4 isn't the top of the world but it's solid and a known quantity. I've gotten pings from recruiters at solid exit ops (unicorn startups, PE looking to grow their data science teams, etc.). Like many job hunts, my best exit ops (FAANG) are coming through referrals. And while interviews aren't guaranteed through referrals, but Deloitte is well-known enough I think to get me past that resume screen after a referral for those too.
You can do well especially if you develop a marketable skillset.
In terms of how long to stay, there's no right answer, but from what I hear, exits may be quite a bit more difficult certainly at the SM level. The longer you stay the more you lose when exiting, especially at pre partner level. But aside from that, everyone comes and goes at all levels and over all timeframes, some after 2 years and others after 7 or more. Play it by ear. If you find a really really good exit op and or you feel your progress is slowing, maybe that's your signal.
If you want to be a partner (which you can be in 10 years) or learn diverse skills (and find your ‘passion’) before you jump to industry then it could be a great choice for you.
Exactly at Deloitte Consulting if you do 2-2-2 you’re a manager by six years in and are doing above average. At that point the promotion from M to SM varies greatly; and SM to PMD takes at least a couple years. The youngest SAP partner Chip I think was something like 34 meaning it took 12ish years for the fastest and youngest partner
I think it really depends if you want to do management or actually be really technical. I am a data engineer and the second I left D for a unicorn startup the asks for interviews skyrocketed. It took a while to leave D but moving from one startup to another with a 20k boost in salary and small promotion was super easy. If you want to be in management it is a very different story but some tech companies do not trust consultants to actually have tech skills.
this. if you want to leave for something technical, companies do not trust consultants at all and I don't blame them
As others said, consulting provides a lot of optionality, so you can switch careers later more easily than you could from other fields.
Advice: be somewhat intentional with the industry or function your projects are. You are likely to get linkedin messages from recruiters looking to fill roles related to your project background. So don't spend 3 years on utilities projects if you're interested in retail.