Total work experience just under 5 years. corp finance for 4 of those years and now at GS investment management for shy of 1 year. Also have an MBA from not ranked school. Whats the chance i have at breaking into a consulting firm? Whats the process?
Why consulting. It makes no sense to me you are in Goldman
Consulting has way better work life balance than goldman and trains you to be successful in different industries
OP probably wants different experience in different industries.
Chances are good. *Might* (take that with a high amount of salt because I could be dead wrong) have a hard time at MBB. Practice case interviews and you should be good.
Not sure how it works at BCG or McK, but at Bain (I’m in our NY office), we have a recruiter dedicated to Experienced Hires. Bain employs and office-centric recruiting model, rather than a global recruiting model, so you’d need to identify a friend in the office you want to work in and have him make an introduction to the Experience Hire recruiter. From that point, you’d talk with him/her, meet some people, and have an interview scheduled. Two rounds of interviews, each with two cases; first round with Consultants/Managers, second round with Principals/Partners. The bar to get over in experienced hire interviews is likely higher than that in traditional MBA interviews. (It’d help if you fit one of Bain’s diversity groups - Female, Latino, Black, Gay, Veteran - as there are dedicated recruiters for those groups as well, and there are additional resources they’d provide to help in interviews). If I were you, unless you have a strong desire to do consulting work or are looking for more optionality in post-consulting roles, I’d stay at GS WM. Work-life balance will be worse at Bain than it is in wealth management (not worse than IB), and your comp would be less, especially since you’d be hired into a first year Consultant (right out of b-school) position (~$150k). Lastly, most people I know at Bain who don’t come from target schools are hired because of a specialization (they’re a doctor, engineer, data scientist, advanced analytics type). Hope that helps.
Pretty good chances GS doorman! Esp for Big 4 and Bain like PcaA53 detailed. Happy to offer my perspective on Deloitte if you want to DM.
High. You could do corporate strategy consulting. Clarify what you mean by "what's the process?"
Sorry by process I mean, will I need to do months of prep for case studies and what not? Or since I’m coming in as an experienced hire would it just be a regular interview?
For Deloitte there will be a case. Not as intense as the MBB, but still needs practice. We'll mostly test you on behaviorial and technical situation based questions so prepare for those . Do not fret too much