Hi Anon,
From personal experience I can recommend you to join a large corporation, that is leading in its industry. Think ABInbev, Exonn, Coke, P&G, Amazon, Google, Beiersdorf, Toyota...
This will teach you how businesses work, operate, think and will give you an edge as a consultant when you are serving them. You can work in a management role in any function to prepare yourself, wether it's planning, marketing, sales, operations, finance or engineering... Working at such a company, the MBB firms will call you to come back to their interviews after 2-3 years.
It's unfortunate that you didn't get the job this time around, but having been at an mbb interview means you will have a background and track record that will relatively easily get you a very interesting and rewarding role somewhere else.
Consulting and strategy rules, as Francesco suggested, can also certainly prepare you for coming back to the mbb interview process. Having said that, I do feel consulting would mostly make it harder for you, for two reasons:
1. Credibility. The interviewer will wonder why you are changing from consulting to consulting. With this background, the question will be, why didn't you join 1~2 years ago? Or why are you leaving your consulting firm now, don't you have a career built up yet?
2. Difficulty. Most interviewers will expect a better performance from you in the interviews, just because you have been in consulting before. No more free points for clarifying the clients objective up front, and one badly structured conclusion can wipe out your chances immediately.
Cheers
Hi Anon,
From personal experience I can recommend you to join a large corporation, that is leading in its industry. Think ABInbev, Exonn, Coke, P&G, Amazon, Google, Beiersdorf, Toyota...
This will teach you how businesses work, operate, think and will give you an edge as a consultant when you are serving them. You can work in a management role in any function to prepare yourself, wether it's planning, marketing, sales, operations, finance or engineering... Working at such a company, the MBB firms will call you to come back to their interviews after 2-3 years.
It's unfortunate that you didn't get the job this time around, but having been at an mbb interview means you will have a background and track record that will relatively easily get you a very interesting and rewarding role somewhere else.
Consulting and strategy rules, as Francesco suggested, can also certainly prepare you for coming back to the mbb interview process. Having said that, I do feel consulting would mostly make it harder for you, for two reasons:
1. Credibility. The interviewer will wonder why you are changing from consulting to consulting. With this background, the question will be, why didn't you join 1~2 years ago? Or why are you leaving your consulting firm now, don't you have a career built up yet?
2. Difficulty. Most interviewers will expect a better performance from you in the interviews, just because you have been in consulting before. No more free points for clarifying the clients objective up front, and one badly structured conclusion can wipe out your chances immediately.
Cheers