thedevilinme
Hello,
I'm new here, hoping someone could provide some insights on this. I was invited to interview for INSEAD for the January intake. I'm an Indian candidate and looking to switch career post MBA. My entire professional experience till now has been in a warehouse manager role, and I want to move to management consulting post MBA. I've talked to a few folks in the current class and it seems like a big portion of the 20J class is unemployed or are going back to their old jobs, with Indian folks mostly getting jobs in India. I'll be taking a huge loan (~$110K) to pursue MBA from INSEAD, and am a little concerned in terms of job prospects. Additionally, I'm turning 31 soon, not sure how much that impacts in terms of recruitment for consulting.
1. For someone coming from an entirely non-consulting or strategic background, how feasible is it to transition to management consulting post MBA?
2. Can someone, especially a current student or alumni shed some light on job prospects, specifically for Indian folks after graduation?
Hi, I'm an incoming student for 21D, just chipping in what I know.
From my understanding, consulting is mostly pre-mba/age agnostic. While having pre-mba consulting experience will give you some advantages, in particular familiarity for case interviews, consulting firms do recruit from varied backgrounds.
From online sources, it seems that the recruiting for Big 4 consulting has been more impacted than that of MBB. At least for Bain, which I attended their webinar, they mentioned that they are not changing the pace of recruitment, however it will depend on the needs of the individual offices. There may be some offices, such as the Singapore office, that don't hire unless you already have work authorization to work in Singapore. Other students/consultants should be able to provide more updated info.