Case Team Leader at Monitor Group
I have an MBA degree from a non-target b-school and have 2 years or post-mba experience in two fortune 50 companies (retail and high-tech, corporate finance related) and about 3 years of pre-mba experience in IT services/consulting. I had a fairly good GPA of 3.7 during my mba.
Is the case team leader position at Monitor doable for my profile? The reason I am interested to switching to consulting from Corporate (Currently in one of the best tech companies in the world - in a good position etc.) is primarily driven by need for more challenging work.
In my opinion, going at the consultant level - which I believe is the MBA/Grad level - may not be ideal for me given some great experience post-mba in general management projects.
Comments and Inputs are welcome. Thanks everyone.
(Also - Comments/inputs on Monitor group are also welcome)
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Consultancies don't hire people as managers. Period. I've seen CEO's join our firm and they started out as Associates, they put in their 2 years, and only THEN made manager. The reason is that consulting firms have very specific cultures and ways of doing analyses, operating with eachother. If you put someone new to the firm in charge of a team he/she will not know how to do the analyses the way their firm wants him to, will not understand how his teammates function, and will miss a lot of the skills necessary to succeed, regardless of whatever other skills he/she has accumulated elsewhere.
This is true - I know McK hired a tenured physics professor from an Ivy who had to start out as an associate - but the CEOs bit smells like hyperbole. Never heard that one.
Also, as said above, the OP is too young to be a CTL, even if Monitor did hire outsiders to be managers.
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the only exceptions are hires at the VERY top -- we are talking about 20+ years of industry experience. that's obviously not the case here.
I would slightly amend what BearMarket says; - People who can sell work / have the networks to sell work / etc. can come in as partners, or one step down - People lateraling from other consulting firms come in at their level - Everyone else is basically entry. Comp may (only partially) reflect prior work experience
Won't speak for Monitor, but I can tell you that here at Deloitte, you would definitely start at the (maybe not first year) Senior Consultant level (not at the Manager level). Even if you had 5 years of post-MBA experience in industry it would be the same.
Echo redninja - except I argue that at the junior levels, a year in consulting is worth more than 2 years in industry. In the past 9 months, I've worked on 4 very high profile projects, even lead several workstreams myself, managed teams of 6-8 people at the client. I know people who have been working at my clients for 5+ years who still don't have the big picture view of what goes on there that I got in just 3 months.
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