Audit to Strategy
The skills transfer and the signal does not. Almost all of the difficulty is getting read as a strategy candidate rather than an audit one.
Consulting and Strategy
Talk to someone who has already made the exit you are planning.
Everyone in consulting is planning their exit and almost nobody talks about it honestly inside the firm. The three routes out are industry, startup and another firm, and the people who can tell you what each one actually costs are the ones who took it in the last two years.
Guides
The moves Consulting Guides get asked about most.
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Audit to Strategy
The skills transfer and the signal does not. Almost all of the difficulty is getting read as a strategy candidate rather than an audit one.
Consulting to Startup Ops
The deck stops being the deliverable. People who built their reputation on structure find the first quarter genuinely disorienting.
Strategy to Product
You will be asked what you have shipped, and a recommendation adopted by a client does not count in the room.
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In their words
What people in Consulting actually ask.
Not topics. The questions people type, from the situations they arrive with.
- Industry, startup or another firm. Which exit closes the fewest doors?
- How much of a pay cut is a startup ops role actually going to be?
- I do not have a consulting background. Can I get into strategy laterally?
- Does another two years here pay back, or am I just deferring the decision?
- How do I describe consulting work to someone who has never bought consulting?
Common moves
Three transitions, and what makes each one hard.
The difficulty is rarely where people expect it, which is most of why a conversation beats a search.
Consulting to Startup Ops
The deck stops being the deliverable. People who built their reputation on structure find the first quarter genuinely disorienting.
Strategy to Product
You will be asked what you have shipped, and a recommendation adopted by a client does not count in the room.
Questions
What Consulting Seekers ask before booking.
Industry is usually the easiest to walk back from and the slowest to grow in; startups are the reverse. Which trade fits depends on your runway and your risk, and it is a very different answer at two years in than at six.
Yes, and it is mostly a positioning problem. Internal strategy teams hire from operations more often than firms do. Ask someone who came in through that door what their resume said.
The honest test is whether the next two years give you a story you do not already have. If you can already tell it, you are paying for the letterhead. Worth pressure-testing with someone who stayed and someone who left.
Ask someone who has already been through it.
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