I'm looking into working in technology consulting for a wide variety of reasons (or life science/healthcare but this seems a lot narrower/smaller area).
I've seen many people enter consulting firms out of UG/UG-equivalents and work in tech consulting groups at MBB or other firms (e.g. Accenture); I don't know a huge amount about what they do, but I assume strategy work, TAM analysis, technology/IP trend studies, maybe some valuation and corporate restructuring, are all interwoven somehow in their work.
My question is, how does recruiting for that specific type of job operate? Some of this goes to how consulting firms are organized - are there 'coverage groups' as in IB (with technology being one of them), or is it more based on client portfolios being scattered around some other org structure?
How do entry-level types recruit for these roles; do they request certain industries in consulting, or is it about what the firm is specifically looking for?
I'm just looking for someone with some insight to outline how tech consulting maps onto management consulting in general, and how recruiting works if you want to target a specific industry like that.
Thanks in advance to posters!
