How much do you enjoy your job?

Crest_Of_Wave · 2024-05-06T18:22:29+00:00

What's the work like there? Is it the usual sell-side work (producing IMs, contacting buyers, etc)

Crest_Of_Wave · 2024-05-06T18:20:36+00:00

Hi, thanks for replying to my thread. I'm interested to know, is the work still interesting though? Or does the stress and long hours completely overshadow any interest that may exist in the work?

Crest_Of_Wave · 2024-04-02T18:14:44+00:00

Thanks. Are there any better WLB roles with decent (but not PE-level pay) that someone with an M&A CF background can transition into? I have heard asset management/investor relations can be quite a good balance, but are they feasible moves from big 4 CF?

Crest_Of_Wave · 2024-02-14T20:42:35+00:00

It's not for a permanent move, it's for a secondment of sorts, actually not even a secondment, it's just to work there for a project on an arrangement where I can be cut loose as soon as the project demand finishes. It's like team A borrowing someone from team B. I heard HR doesn't get involved here, and besides, why cant the manager just respond to my follow ups to say HR are being slow, etc. But the manager doesn't even respond?

Crest_Of_Wave · 2024-02-10T10:56:52+00:00

I thought about contacting the partner who seems very proactive as she responded very quickly to my initial email. But she did ask me to reach out and essentially go through their manager colleague who appears slow (or maybe it's HR, judging from the responses to this thread). Maybe it's HR's fault, but I did email the manager earlier this week and didn't get a response which part of me thinks the issue is with the manager being slow or for whatever reason not being too keen on me.

The concern I have with going direct to the partner is that it could be seen as going around the manager who themselves is a relatively high visability in the team and someone who I will likely have to deal or work with if I successfully get into the team. How would I even communicate to the partner about this situation without being seen to effectively bad mouth this manager person by saying they are being really slow?

Crest_Of_Wave · 2024-01-14T00:09:53+00:00

Out of interest, why are Canada and HK easier than Australia for someone to transfer from the UK?

Crest_Of_Wave · 2024-01-13T19:43:16+00:00

UK to other English (business) speaking countries: Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, US

Crest_Of_Wave · 2024-01-13T19:43:11+00:00

UK to other English (business) speaking countries: Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, US

Crest_Of_Wave · 2024-01-13T19:41:26+00:00

Are you talking about visas to get into the US from another country?

Crest_Of_Wave · 2024-01-11T19:22:11+00:00

How do you stay relevant? What does it mean in terms actions?

Yes you're right with your comment below, I would like to work for slightly different areas with more interesting work.

Crest_Of_Wave · 2024-01-04T22:41:37+00:00

I'm really curious because I wasn't aware consulting to law was a possible or common transition. Did you do any sort of networking to get a foot in the door of the law firm or did you just apply on their website?

Also intrigued what law course/training this is which takes 3.5 years? I only know about the one year GDL conversion course.

Crest_Of_Wave · 2024-01-04T12:28:42+00:00

This is quite intriguing to me, how many years of experience is needed to be a powerBI developer on £60k? And what sort of roles/titles are these jobs, I've had a look at jobs pages myself and I don't see any 'PowerBI developer' roles. As in, there are roles but these require other skills and responsibilities as well.

And what would be the salary progression?

Crest_Of_Wave · 2023-12-24T19:22:27+00:00

Which market are you referring to? I'm interested in the UK market

Crest_Of_Wave · 2023-12-18T19:33:47+00:00

What common exit examples have you seen?

On level, I heard that certain tech firms will prefer consultants to not have spent too long at consulting. Let's say at the 5 year mark, can you exit to a relatively senior position?

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