真诚求教，感激不尽。

IrisZhang21

复旦大四学生，手头上有一家小咨询的offer，美国公司，08年成立，没什么名气，有经常去美国工作的机会，打算工作4-5年后申请MBA，请问各位CDer，这份工作经验是不是对申请不利？因为我听说过申请MBA 公司的title最重要。


真诚请求各位的帮助，感激不尽。

asimov1

It is hard for unestablished consulting company to get business, especially when times are tough, unless the partners have strong connections. Without knowing the details of your company, it’s hard to give that advice. I would recommend that you research a bit into the company, and understand its growth potential, and the work that you will be doing.

How do you know you will have opportunity to work in the US? Is this just a sales pitch by the company to get you in the door? Albeit, different consulting companies have different staffing models. It seems that staff someone from China on US projects would be very expensive. Unless the person has strong expertise or the company has severely limited resources, it would be difficult to justify the cost and pass it to the client.

bigjoe

alternative是什么？

IrisZhang21

It is hard for unestablished consulting company to get business, especially when times are tough, unless the partners have strong connections. Without knowing the details of your company, it’s hard to give that advice. I would recommend that you research a bit into the company, and understand its growth potential, and the work that you will be doing.

How do you know you will have opportunity to work in the US? Is this just a sales pitch by the company to get you in the door? Albeit, different consulting companies have different staffing models. It seems that staff someone from China on US projects would be very expensive. Unless the person has strong expertise or the company has severely limited resources, it would be difficult to justify the cost and pass it to the client.

-- by 会员 asimov1 (2013/2/22 23:17:01)

Thank you so much for your help. As you said, I have researched into this firm.


It staffs Chinese people on US projects in order to save costs. Clients are US commercial banks and Chinese staff is cheaper. The company has limited American analysts and associates.


Parters have strong connections and that's why this company has abundant projects. I believe the growth potential is okay as it is very specialized and performance has already been recognized by several big US banks.



Works I will be doing includes communication with clients, data processing using SAS, and mostly making slides.


That's all about this job. I am not sure whether it can be recognized by MBA admission officers.


Thank you so much for you time and patience.

IrisZhang21

alternative是什么？

-- by 会员 bigjoe (2013/2/22 23:44:21)

PWC Consulting Strategy line Shanghai office.


薪酬大概比审计多500，是我的一个concern...

兔子小二

alternative也不错挖，要不把你那个US boutique consulting firm的名字爆出来，看有没有人知道的

IrisZhang21

alternative也不错挖，要不把你那个US boutique consulting firm的名字爆出来，看有没有人知道的

-- by 会员 兔子小二 (2013/2/23 0:05:21)

叫essex lake group. 如果pwc的薪酬稍微好点我就不会纠结了。。

bigjoe

米国吧~~国际经验真心是个好东西。

asimov1

Boutique firms are hit or miss. The potential good thing about the boutique firm is that you have the potential to learn a lot from the managers and partners. However, it really depends on the managers and partners’ abilities, and teaching style.

The downside is that you may either have a ton of work, since they may be low on staff. The sales pitch would be you get to learn a lot. But some of the tasks may just be monotonous stuff like proofreading or printing/organizing the pitch deck. Alternatively, they may not have enough work. There are also many other areas that may not be fully flushed out in a smaller firm.

PWC is a well established firm, you’ll have a consistent career track. But your experience may be very vanilla. They’ll have resources for training, and probably to do the monotonous tasks, so you can focus on the creative/strategy tasks. Since PWC has a wide base of clients, you also have some choose in the types of projects you work on.

For MBA application, the only consulting companies that would give you an edge would be McKinsey, BCG, or Bain (at the top schools). Otherwise, former consultants are a dime a dozen at these schools. You’d be better off starting your own company or do something exotic to stand out in the crowd.

IrisZhang21

Boutique firms are hit or miss. The potential good thing about the boutique firm is that you have the potential to learn a lot from the managers and partners. However, it really depends on the managers and partners’ abilities, and teaching style.

The downside is that you may either have a ton of work, since they may be low on staff. The sales pitch would be you get to learn a lot. But some of the tasks may just be monotonous stuff like proofreading or printing/organizing the pitch deck. Alternatively, they may not have enough work. There are also many other areas that may not be fully flushed out in a smaller firm.

PWC is a well established firm, you’ll have a consistent career track. But your experience may be very vanilla. They’ll have resources for training, and probably to do the monotonous tasks, so you can focus on the creative/strategy tasks. Since PWC has a wide base of clients, you also have some choose in the types of projects you work on.

For MBA application, the only consulting companies that would give you an edge would be McKinsey, BCG, or Bain (at the top schools). Otherwise, former consultants are a dime a dozen at these schools. You’d be better off starting your own company or do something exotic to stand out in the crowd.

-- by 会员 asimov1 (2013/2/23 3:04:30)

Thank you so much!! By the way, your English is really excellent!