<p>I was looking at one of the career service pages someone suggested, and almost every graduate seemed to become either a analyst or consultant of some sort. Is there a major difference?</p>
<p>oh ya, add associate and manager to the discussion as well</p>
<p>link us to the career service pages so we can discuss this.</p>
<p>Well, my guess is that “consultants” are in consulting positions (BCG, McKinsey, et al) while “analysts” are pretty much how entry level positions are called at a lot of places, including financial ones.</p>
<p>It’s just terminology used by firms. It means nothing. Also, I doubt an undergrad is going to be hired as a manager.</p>
<p>Position names don’t mean anything. Most financial firms call entry-level employees analysts, and call their MBA-level hires associates (but some do the opposite), and most consulting firms call their hires consultants, but also sometimes analyst or associate. FWIW, you often will see “manager” in an entry-level position, as it refers to the type of work (ie, account manager, program manager) and not to the practice of managing people.</p>
<p>basically lots of people who graduate from penn become tools. . .i say this seriously but not entirely with a negative connotation. i mean people go into consulting and business firms for the money and experience so later they can move up the same totem pole. that doesn’t appeal to me but some people enjoy it and the money is good, and it’s the most available sort of job for OCR.</p>