Do you ever hear of people going from consulting >> banking or buy side >> consulting at a higher level or different group?
Let's say you spent 1.5 years in a Public Consulting Group, projects were in financial turn around and vanilla-process optimization.
Then you got an offer at a buy side shop and spent 2 years running models and performing investment analysis.
Could that experience and contacts be positioned to go back to consulting, at a higher level because you really know the industry now, and can really add value to engagements? I enjoy working directly with clients and the whole 'road-show' game. The investment group has also given me insight into restructuring processes and financial engineering of a company's balance sheet.
Tl;dr - I think restructuring, seeing a variety of industries, and traveling to distressed client sites would be cool. Do people ever go back and forth like that, or typically stay in one space? If you're good at networking, and pulling off the execution, the fees and bonuses from consulting can match and surpass IB and PE associates and juniors, no?
Hope I'm not too off-base. Interested in others opinions
