re: Yay

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One piece of advice: Saying you want to be "a consultant" is like saying "I want a job" because it holds little meaning. You need to figure out the type of consulting you want to do. Strategy, supply chain, financial management, change management, sales, marketing, digital, risk, IT strategy, IT implementations, etc...the list goes on for functional responsibilities. Or, do you want to be a generalist? Aligned to an industry? Each firm is structured differently and this can greatly impact your experience at the firm.

The people I saw flame out the quickest were the ones that got hired into the wrong group or staffed on projects in a group outside of their own. If someone is hired to do supply chain strategy consulting and then ends up on an 18-month CRM implementation, then that is a recipe for an unhappy employee.

All of this to say, you need to be specific in the firms you target and the role you are pursuing. Otherwise, especially at the big firms, you can get eaten up by the machine and have a less than desirable experience. Hope this helps and good luck

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GREAT advice. Be careful of getting into consulting for the sake of being in consulting. Be clear with firms on what you want to work on. As an analyst this can be tough. Being at a smaller firm that concentrates on regional work and/or specific solutions such as Houston and energy can be a better options if you have specific work and or solution line goals.

Once you get experience you can easily get a job at a larger firm who does the same thing.