Big 4 Consulting

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What advice would you give a young person trying to break into consulting at one of the Big 4 (Deloitte, KPMG, PwC, EY)?

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Do the LSUCIA program.
Theres probably 100 jobs every year just with that program, and over half are probably big 4. They are huge sponsors of the program

If not that, get a technical business degree at whatever school you attend (I'd recommend accounting, finance, or MIS/ISDS) and reach out to the firms in your desired city.
They hire tons and tons of youngins every year for various roles

Are you trying to get into a true "Consulting" group or into "Advisory"? B4 consulting arms might as well be separate firms, but their advisory practices are often much more accessible, particularly for someone with an audit or tax background.

I suppose I am talking about more of a strategist role

This is something me and some friends were discussing, perhaps me the most seriously. I graduated in May 2014 as an engineer and have been working for a consulting engineering firm

I work for Uncle Peat's Management Consulting group in Houston. Did a few years in Audit first.

I know we hire engineers to do Cost Segregation stuff and some into our Oil & Gas practice, beyond that I do not know.

My concern for you at this point is 1 year of experience....what kind of consulting stuff are you doing now?

Although we did just acquire a strategy division, the majority of what our advisory/consulting is systems related, help you with systems architecture, IT project mgmt, implementation, etc.

If you want to do Risk Consulting (compliance work) then LSUCIA will get you hired at any of the big 4.

I have two friends at my institution who got hired by BCG last year. One is a physician and the other is an biomedical engineer.
BCG and McKinsey, hold recruiting session every year at my work place. they recruit mostly NON-Buisness majors who hold high degrees MDs, PhDs and Attorneys.

I heard their work environment sucks

good luck though

Good stuff yall

It sounds like I have a lot of work ahead of me if this is what I want.

ETA: Sounds like an MBA may be in my future. Thats ok with me...I'd much rather do that than get a masters in engineering someday

Get your cpa and network like crazy, join your chamber of commerce and get connected... become partner at big 4...then take a cfo gig with one of your clients

I know I need to look for a different job...hence this post

My current field is 100% technical and it sucks. I don't even want my boss's job or my boss's boss's job. That's when I realized I probably need a change. However I am so "one-suited" now that it seems like getting any decent job outside this industry will take a lot of work but I am willing to do it. I graduated May 2014 in civil engineering at Arkansas. I thought in my current industry at least there would be a path to talking to people, solving a variety of difficult problems and making things happen. None of those are the case.

What really grinds my gears about my current job is I feel like I have a decent set of skills yet I am totally opposite of the model employee for the company. I much prefer using my "soft skills" where all my coworkers are happy being design engineers and never talking to clients and never solving any real problems. That sounds like a nightmare to me.

My father was a top salesman for many years at a variety of companies all now in the Fortune 500. That was always how I saw my career going. I thought I could bring social skills usually uncommon in this industry to make my way out of the technical side.

TLDR, square peg round hole I guess

well ^this sounds like me

thanks for sharing your experience