Best major for a kid who is interested in consulting
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Anonymous
| What is it and why? |
Anonymous
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Finance.
Yes consulting puts you thru a bootcamp and teaches everyone the basic finance they need in the first few weeks. Yet if you've already learned it in school as well as mastered Excel/PPT, you'll find consulting substantively easy. |
Anonymous
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Information systems
You can go tech or management/strategy side. Our entire major was scooped up by consulting firms when I graduated. |
Anonymous
| Philosophy is attractive - problem solving and structured thinking are critical skills |
Anonymous
This or data analytics |
Anonymous
| Clients are impressed by prestigious school names. If it’s HYPS, then anything, including Music would be okay. Anywhere else, best do Finance or Econ. |
Anonymous
Yep. I was an information systems major 15 years ago, but today I’d probably major or double major in data analytics. |
Anonymous
| These jobs are a scourge on society |
Anonymous
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In all honesty, what high school or early college kid is prioritizing consulting in 2023?
Start dates are delayed, hiring is down, and prestigious companies have less interest in consultants. Leaders have to explain their past consulting days rather than bragging about them like 20 years ago. Give the kid When McKinsey Comes to Town! |
Anonymous
| Finance, Econ, Policy, CS, Data, there is no shortage. |
Anonymous
Why? |
Anonymous
| Accounting degree from UMD. |
Anonymous
| I think most people here are missing a vital aspect of consulting, and that is positioning oneself as a trusted advisor to the c-level. This requires certain intangibles to be sure. But an ability to understand a business, business processes, cost centers, organizational dynamics, change management, key performance indicators and scorecarding, training, employee unions, negotiation, facilitation, and communications are all skills of a good consultant. In my experience, the most valuable (or perhaps I should say most difficult to come by) of these is change management and facilitation. |
Anonymous
| Can't say I've ever come across a kid (18, 19) that was interested in "consulting" as a career. The ones I know were simply looking for post college employment and happened to meet with on-campus recruiters during interviews. |
Anonymous
| How can an 18 year old be interested in "consulting?" I'm 49 and I'm not even completely sure what consulting is or what they do. |