Experienced Hires for Consulting
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on 2/10/08 at 5:39pm
I'm currently in a middle office rotational training program for a Big Foreign Bank, including one international rotation. Given the quality of my industry experience and a 3.7 GPA from a non-target public school, how probable would it be for me to attain a consulting job, say at a firm such as Oliver Wyman (FS practice)?
How easy is it to switch into consulting as an "experienced hire" in general?





Difficult
If you're interested in consulting you should get an MBA and try to get in that way. At my firm (a tier below MBB) we almost never take experienced hires below an MBA level. Generally experienced hires are people who are going to bring significant experience in industry or consulting that we are looking for.
Agree with skaballet
You might be able to break in as a first-year, but even that would be difficult. You would probably need contacts within firms in order to get them to look.