I am working as a presales consultant in an IT company. Just wanted to know can I switch to management consulting roles in the future?

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I am working as a pre-sales consultant in an IT company. Just wanted to know can I switch to management consulting roles in the future?

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Consultant

Career stream switch- Grapevine

I will join a IT service company soon as a solution manager in AI/cloud domain. Would like to know how is this role? 
What could be the future options for me and what other roles/companies can I switch to if i think?

How is the Solution Manager role?

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Ask me anything except my company name, or things that can reveal my identity. I may respectfully choose not to respond to your question based on my own judgement.

Here’s a brief intro about me: I’ve worked as both software engineering manager & software technical architect over the last 18+ years on various tech stacks managing backend, frontend and a little bit of cloud. I have seen ups and downs in the software industry. Currently I’m working as a senior architect in one of the product based companies in India.

I’ve been an Engineering Manager before. Ask me anything.

Software Architect

I have been working in front end consulting for around 2 years now (first job) and am struggling to understand my options in terms of career paths and in the long term. 
A) Would love to know more about some career trajectories post consulting + some people who have inspired you whom I can check out on linkedin (in case grapevine allows for it).
B) How feasible is a pivot to industry post consulting?

Post Consulting- what can I look forward to?

Business Development Manager

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I am a Tech consultant, is it possible to switch to software engineering job roles?

Software Engineer

Hi All, 

I’ll start with ‘About Myself’ -
I have 4-years of experience working in a Fintech organisation as a Software Engineer. But .. I hate it. Early in the college itself, I identified that I’m not strong technically (coding, DSA, and all), but, I’m quite good at Consulting / Management / Leadership roles. However, as always, under the peer pressure of my friends, family, and relatives too (yup, I know what you’re thinking) .. I still opted for a Technical line of work.

I realised it early itself that in most of the organisations, DS Algorithms and all won’t be needed. I was asked to work on a specific technology as per my team’s requirements and I did the best possible. I even indulged myself into the the then hot-topic ‘Cloud Computing’. Now, I am a hard-working person and damn I impressed everyone in my team. I’ve received countless awards and appreciations, quarter by quarter. And I’m currently acting as an Unofficial Technical Lead (with just 4 years experience in an MNC) for a team of almost 40 people, helping them with their work and tasks (which I’ve mastered already). But, my own personal growth here has taken a toll as now I am no longer developing anything myself, and neither is my Unofficial role of much value when I look for opportunities elsewhere.

My personal interests are into Management / Consulting roles. I’m even planning and preparing for an MBA degree from outside India next year to pursue the same.

However, till then, my question is .. HOW DO I SWITCHOVER from this technical line of work to Consulting / business / management line of roles (considering the difficulties of me being inexperienced in that line as of today on paper .. and a shift from 4 years of Technical experience to 0 years of Consulting / Management experience should be profitable).

Open to all suggestions and arguments.

The Switchover Problem

I had experience in Tech Consulting but then moved to a Generalist Role in a Finserv company.

Is it possible to move to Management Consulting now? If yes then please provide me a roadmap.

I am targeting Accenture Strategy and Big 4 Consulting firms.

Switch to Consulting

Hi folks, hope you all are having a wonderful day!

I'm in a dilemma and need your expertise!

I'm a senior consultant(mix of business analyst and consultant) at a mid size organization with 3 YOE, 16 LPA from tier 1 college. 

From my understanding I'm entering a stage where i can still pivot to product management, as later on it will be pretty hard!

So my question to you all is that is it worth it to change career or should i climb ladder in consultancy.

I don't really have any passion, my main focus points are money and job security. 

What do you think i should do?, what pays more?, which field has more future opportunities?

Please advice.

Ciao

PM Vs Consultant

Senior Consultant

Hi all, looking to transition from Analyst to consultant role. Can anyone please guide how to switch from Analyst to consulting role?
No prior consulting experience and no MBA. 

Any guidance is highly appreciated 
Thanks in advance.

Analyst to Consultant

Analyst

Hey, I'm a fresher and recently i joined a mid-size (5k emp) B2B Saas fintech company as a functional consultant.
My job role is simply to configure the company's products according to client's specifications, which forces me to think that I'm adding no skills whatsoever except SQL which i can bank on for a switch.
I thought since the role has "consulting" in it would be similar to management consulting but it's not.Should i quit and go back to cloud or is there scope for functional consultants?

Scope of Functional Consulting

Associate Consultant

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I'm currently working on an FTE job - wherein the offer letter its mentioned "During the term of your employment with the Company, you may not engage in any employment or act in any way, which either conflicts with your duties and obligations to the Company, or is contrary to the policies or the interests of the Company."

Now, I'm getting enough time and I want to consider working in a 0-1 startup, and the new company I'm joining will know about my current employer - The above mentioned is the only clause the current employer have regarding working in other company. Can the current employer legally put a case anytime in the future if they get to know this? - what are the loopholes I can use here?

What position I can join in as (Consultant, Advisory role) - Still an early career professional in order to avoid conflict afterwards.

Thank you for your help!!

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Product Manager

Currently working as an insights analyst (life sciences vertical) 1 year of work ex, worked on two big Pharma clients, I have technical exp and luckily client facing exp as well. 

Do y’all think I’ll get accepted into a McKinsey/Bain/EY associate/Junior consultant role ?

Switch to a consulting profile

Business Analyst

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Currently working as a management
consultant but sometimes I wonder what are the hard skills that I need to develop to stay relevant in the market in the long term. The thought arises due to the fact that the work domain of work keeps changing and makes me feel jack of all trades and master of none.What are the thoughts of some of the MCs
out here?

Management consultant career progression

Management Consultant

I have about 5 years of experience working in sales for both product and service companies (startups and MNC). However, in the long run I don't want to be in sales. I want to eventually move into something where my work has some sort of impact. Can be: product management, business strategy, internal or client consulting or maybe something else which I'm not sure of. As I'm in the middle of taking a break currently to figure this out, I want to understand how I can transition into these roles without a master's degree? Is it practically possible? If yes, then how should I go about it?

Quite confused, need some help

Growth Manager

I want to switch in consulting as a b.com with 2 yrs exp. in Knowledge mgt.

Analyst 

Hi there,

I have 3.5 years of IT engineering experience and am considering transitioning to consulting. However, I don't have an MBA. Is this switch feasible? If so, what skills and experiences should I highlight on my CV? Are there any certifications or courses that would help?

I appreciate any advice or insights!

Advice needed!

Biggest query:
Does this career move make sense? Or should the aim be towards a Manager position after spending 6+ years in Product Management?

Switch advice: SPM w/ 6+ YOE --> Management Consultant

Hi all!!

Hope you all are doing great.

I'm currently working in Bajaj Electricals in sales profile and would like to switch to other profile and company.

I'm more interested in Supply Chain management/ operations/ logistics.

My MBA background is also Marketing/ Operations.


I have done Gen AI supply chain course from IIM Mumbai and currently doing Supply Chain Certificate Course from APICS.

Have 1 YOE.


Any referral / opening in any SCM/Ops/Logs will help a lot.


Regards

Role and Company Switch

Sales Leader

Hi guys I’m currently employed as an Insights Analyst with Accentures life sciences vertical with 1 year of total work ex and a salary of 13.3LPA + Variables. I’m thinking of switching roles and I want to go into Strategy consulting (within the life sciences world only) 
Which company do you guys think I should apply to ?

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