Hi everyone, I have recently started to get a bit more serious about making a career shift towards consulting. I've been interested in this field for a while but always felt rather inadequate in many ways (not having a business degree and not from a target school being few of many). I am currently a validation engineer in a pharma company and have roughly 4.5 years of industry experience. I am finally intending to make the jump to consulting.
Plenty of advise on the internet and from the consultants I met during the networking event emphasized heavily on the need to practice cases. What I would like to know is do most people practice cases first until you feel comfortable with it then apply to the position or do you practice only after you get an interview offer? I find that if I don't start before I might not have enough time but then I would be investing a lot of time into this if I did not even get called to an interview.