Big 4 Consulting career pathway

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Charles042

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Charles042
Apr 7, 2021 3 Comments

Hey guys,

I started in PwC (Perth, Western Australia} as a grad in Tech Consulting last month but I graduated studying electrical engineering. I chose it because it was the only grad offer I had at the time and I was interested in the concept of consulting and the large amounts of experience I can gain in a short time frame. I'd like to know what options I have career-wise, what I need to do to get them and what sort of opportunities I have if I decide to exit to industry.

Thank you

Edit 1:
I'm currently working on a really big digital transformation project and support is great. I'm just not sure what the pathway is like for someone like myself who came straight from an EE degree. There's not much structure for delivering a technology (coding, software dev etc) project and they're trying to set that up (a recently promoted Director that I know decently informed me of this). Is it worth it to learn coding to be apart of the team? or should I go the Project Management route. I'm not really interested in strategy as it's saturated already but wouldn't mind do it.

#careerbuilder

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    scasc

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    scasc
    With big4 you need to realise it will always rely on winning work based on its bread and butter which is assurance and advisory. Having worked in 3 of the 4 I can pretty much relate to everything they do. If software development and IT is what you want, not the best place. If you want to learn how to do things like risk assessments, gap analysis, change consultancy, cyber security, cloud advisory or PM like you mentioned you can do that. Thing to remember is if you like what you do, try staying if you can for long run to ultimately aim for partnership. Then the champagne will fall from the sky!

    On the graduate programme do u have rotations? Depending on your background I would personally aim to get into cloud/cyber - which is what I do anyway :).
    Apr 8, 2021 0
  • Following, what is Perth? I’m looking to join soon as well, ECE grad. How is your experience working there?
    Apr 7, 2021 1
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      Charles042

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      Charles042
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      Sorry it is the location (Perth, Western Australia, Australia). So far it has been pretty good, team is supportive, feels like there's not much structure in terms of onboarding grads, everyone was super busy but they were nice enough to have a chat to help us understand what was going on.
      Apr 7, 2021