Recent grad of a top LAC/NESCAC. interned at a small FS strategy consulting company last summer in NYC and got a return offer and took it. Upon starting, some of the new associates were put into the “solutions” business instead of the advisory one and told that there is no path back to advisory. The advisory job is classic project based strategy consulting - pricing, go to market, customer acquisition, M&A due dilligence etc. The solutions jobs into which we have been placed are effectively product specialist roles - the company sells a fintech product to FS institutions and we are responsible for tailoring the product to best fit client strategy and needs. In a bit of a rock and a hard place - re-recruiting seems difficult given consulting recruiting cycles and we all have rent/loans/visa issues as well. Any advice?
Can you give some more detail and the difference between “advisory” and “solutions” in this case.
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