Early transition fuckup
As title says, fucked up at work in my first year and put on involuntary transition at an MBB.
Thoughts on how to frame this in a way that doesn’t seem like I was fired and limit long term damage.
Ideas included reaching out to people in tech to talk about their careers. And stating that since the consulting > tech door has narrowed, you want to prepare your profile and just apply as early as possible until you land something since it can take a while. Have friends at most of the FAANG companies, but on the technical side, so their direct referrals are not as meaningful.
Or going overseas, such that there is an alternative explanation for leaving so early if anyone in the future asks.
Sorry to hear, last couple of years have been rough.
In terms of reframing, you can always present it as:
These are fairly typical reframes, and probably not that inaccurate. Now if you really liked consulting but just happened to be unlucky, you can always try again down the line.
Basically, you want to cast this as a natural part of your career journey / professional goals.
Also just wanted to add that this isn’t nearly as uncommon as you think. This happens fairly frequently . Also, staying in MBB for 3 years is not some huge goal you should have , eg I know dudes who left after a 1-1.5 years who went to super solid middle market private equity firms so it’s really not that deep
The harder you try to obfuscate what happened the more obvious it becomes.
Forget about transition. Just think about what you want to do next, and then go do that. In a year or two no one will notice or care.
This happened to me 2 years ago at my 1-year review. It sucks. I still remember the words my career advisor said to me that day and my blank stare afterwards. This is probably the first time you've 'failed' at something, given that you are a very high achiever for getting into MBB in the first place.
You'll be fine. I had 2 offers within 3 moths of job search, and this was during the rough Winter 2022 economy. Almost 2-years after the fact, I am in a much better place and I'm a top performer on my new team.
This is my advice. It is lengthy, but I feel what you're going through and want to help.
I think C1 takes ex-MBB early exit folks and you could place on a more techy side there, could be a decent transition and easy to make the argument its a WLB motivated change. From my experience if you have a ~year experience you’ll probably get placed as a second year analyst in their ADP program and the pay for your first two or so years out of undergrad are actually pretty close.
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