Specialization vs. Generalist debate
I'm in business strategy and majorly worked across different startups When looking for a new role, HRs tell me they are looking for specialized experience, or my experiences do not count as they are less than 2 years (in each company) I like being a generalist, I have learnt much more than I think I would have in a specialist role What do you guys think? I have 4YOE, currently in a seed stage startup
Baingan
Student
5 months ago
Hey
First off, when you say generalist, you are talking about industry and not functional right? because strategy across different industry/verticals counts as strategy function. however if u have done a mix of functions, strategy ops marketing etc then it is a generalist profile. should clear that first.
Hi @Baingan
Yes, I have worked across ops marketing, very briefly in finance (startup was too small)
Strategy is vast and covers a lot of domains, with each industry it differs even further
Baingan
Student
5 months ago
@Pillow so I haved worked in core strategy in a corp and startup and I have run a P&L. strategy after a point of time will become a hard role to optimise for. P&L roles show more growth. the right play typically is to try P&L roles as soon as possible. for strategy folks, roles like category planning/category marketing in ecomms/d2c is a good entry point.
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