are you an ex-consultant?
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Anonymous
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what do you do now, and how did you transition?
Just trying to plot out my potential next move. |
Anonymous
| What would you like to be doing? |
Anonymous
Yes. I now teach middle school math. Took weekend classes for 2 years to get my masters. Love it--but that's probably not what you were talking about 
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Anonymous
this has always been the problem. I'm a jack of all trades, master of none... a project management generalist. I've never really found my passion. I've enjoyed client work in the pharma industry. |
Anonymous
Corporate Strategy / Corp Development in big pharma ? |
Anonymous
| Went to startup firm, small 100 person firm. less busy work, less politics, more stress. |
Anonymous
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The hardest thing about being a consultant was that I only ever socialized with other people who worked in professional services. It was an extremely limiting bubble, and it made it hard to get referrals to do coo things or even know what those jobs could be.
I joined |
Anonymous
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* cool things
I joined lots of meet ups and made new friends who were not in professional services. The opportunities starting flowing in! |
Anonymous
Any that you'd recommend? Would love to escape billed-hours hell. |
Anonymous
| Former consultant here. I am struggling to find a new career path since it's obvious I'm not going to partner/BD/rainmaker route. I think "jack of all trades, master of none" is exactly correct. I've found it very, very hard to translate my general PM, analyst, writing skills into something new. |
Anonymous
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Been a consultant of various flavors and also an "internal consultant" within a couple of companies. Being a PM inside a company still means moving from project to project.
Typically, if you're a consultant you bring a certain approach to problem solving and a service mentality that many companies would like for internal people. Depending on what kind of consultant you are, you might also bring significantly improved writing/presentation skills. So, among other things, look on LinkedIn and other job posting locations for opportunities at the clients where you've done projects, then you can reach out to the people you worked with at those customers. |
Anonymous
I don't get it - really? Does your firm not have a strong alumni network? Pretty much every f500 internal corp strategy / corp dev team loves ex strategy consultants. Read the job descriptions. Who were your clients, what kind of jobs were you staffed on? |
Anonymous
| What consulting firm are you at? What level? That'll help us give better advice |
Anonymous
| I am an ex-consultant and went into industry - eventually turned to career coaching which I do full time now. Definitely use your linkedin networks to find former colleagues and clients and start networking! |
Anonymous
I'm guessing the issue here is you are thinking of Bain, bcg, mck, Deloitte etc. and he's talking about some kind of specialized boutique or government consulting arm |