If I have accepted an offer at a NA McKinsey office but know that my fiance is likely to move abroad after a year to another country, can I request a transfer after a year or so based on personal (family) reasons?
How hard is it to secure this? What will I need to do/achieve to ensure I can do this? Can I request a transfer after a year or so of working in a NA office? Will I have access to international exposure opportunities?
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Hello!
You can perfectly request it, but it´s not guaranteed. Depends on multiple factors:
Hope it helps!
Cheers,
Clara
(editiert)
Hi!
McKinsey is usually very supportive when it comes to such matters. There is a structured process for transfering into other geographies (I have done it twice during my career at the Firm). Please talk to your DGL once you start and he/she will give you guidence.
Cheers, Sidi
Hi A,
Different companies offer three types of transfers:
All of them are different in terms of difficulty to get. While project assignments abroad are quite common and easy to get, permanent office transfers are very challenging and require hard work from your end and a bit of luck.
In any way you would need the support of your mentor, the staffing manager in your region as well as partner in the targeted office, who will push your transfer.
I had two transfers in my career:
I need to say that transfers are a pretty tricky thing and require a lot of sensitive political skills.
If you need any help, just drop me a PM.
Happy to share my experience.
Best,
André
Hi,
yes, you can do it. The proposal will be accepted based on your performance and your relationship with the target office. For this purpose, I recommend spending one project in the target office.
Best,
Antonello
Thanks Antonello. Regarding your answer about spending one project in a target office, how do you find a project in an international office? Let's say I am in NA and want to do a project in Australia.
Hi,
You can request a transfer basis of family reasons. However, there is 0 guarantee that they'll do that. The ways to increase the chances:
Best
Thanks Clara! How do you build a relationship with the target office? In other words how do you get on projects with them? For ex: I am in a NA office and i want to do a project with an Australian office.
If you don´t have any built relationship that you can already leverage, once you are hired you can get yourself staffed in projects with partners from that geography. This is what people normally do, and it works very well -but needs big time investments, months-. Cheers!
Hi Clara, may you elaborate why it is impossible to transfer to Singapore? As an overseas Singaporean, I was hoping to stay in London for a couple of years after my studies before transferring back home to sg. Thank you