Best major for a kid who is interested in consulting

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a recruiter and when I ask college kids what they want to do, lots of them say "consulting" or be a "project manager". For the project manager types, I answer "a construction project manager?", and for the consulting kids, I ask the same question. They can never even tell me what consulting means. In my eyes, these kids just want to jump into roles where they don't have to do grunt work and can either oversee or judge and make recommendations.

You sound like a terrible interviewer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a recruiter and when I ask college kids what they want to do, lots of them say "consulting" or be a "project manager". For the project manager types, I answer "a construction project manager?", and for the consulting kids, I ask the same question. They can never even tell me what consulting means. In my eyes, these kids just want to jump into roles where they don't have to do grunt work and can either oversee or judge and make recommendations.

You sound like a terrible interviewer.

Shh. She needs to feel superior to 19 year olds, let her have her moment!

[Anonymous]

My oversimplification:

History majors go to law school;

Economics, Finance, data analytics, or data science folks go into consulting.

[Anonymous]

anything quant is good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. There's no general "consulting" job, as others have said.

2. In whatever field, one needs to become an expert in that field for their "consulting" to have any value. As others have said.

So if that's true, why do the "prestigious" consulting firms, those that are dealing with F500 clients, hire all these 22 year olds straight out of undergrad with limited (or no) corporate experience? (Real question, not facetious.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. There's no general "consulting" job, as others have said.

2. In whatever field, one needs to become an expert in that field for their "consulting" to have any value. As others have said.

So if that's true, why do the "prestigious" consulting firms, those that are dealing with F500 clients, hire all these 22 year olds straight out of undergrad with limited (or no) corporate experience? (Real question, not facetious.)

There are a number of posters that don’t know who Bain, BCG, etc. are. I find it odd for DCUM.

Everyone…thousands of kids are hired straight out of college as consultants. Honestly, the fact you don’t know that is really odd (and you should be a little embarrassed too).