<p>I'm an accounting major at a Florida university. Just kinda wanna know where my options stand. Currently I'm aiming for the path of getting 150 credits with an Macc and working for a large public accounting firm, but I wanted to know if there's any chance to break into consulting, either as a first job out of college, or after working for a few years, given the fact that I don't attend a target school.</p>
<p>bump10char</p>
<p>I think your chances are pretty slim. You could consider getting an accounting spot at a big-4 and then trying to switch to the consulting side later.</p>
<p>Big 4 is my main focus. I have heard of people getting into consulting with accounting degrees out of college, even though its not with one of the top 3 consulting firms. I was meaning more like one of the non-top 3-5 firms.</p>
<p>It is definitely possible, a few small firms recruit accounting majors at my school. Accenture recruits at my school also. It’s also possible after working a few years at a Big 4. They all have advisory practices and Deloitte still has a actual consulting arm so there’s that. There is also the option of going the MBA route and then getting into consulting.</p>
<p>My goal is to go into management consulting so I’ve done some research.</p>
<p>Yeah, I knew Deloitte had consulting, thats along the lines of what I was thinking as far as not exactly the top, top consulting firms.</p>
<p>Side note: I’m glad you brought up “advisory” with the Big 4 firms. I’ve always wondered what the difference was between their “advisory” services and traditional “consulting” amongst more prestigious consulting firms. I’ve googled it but never found anything conclusive.</p>
<p>It depends on what your doing within the firm put for the most part in advisory your going to be doing financial advisory services while at a consulting firm you’d hopefully be doing more strategy related activities. Advisory by most people isn’t seen as management consulting and certainly doesn’t carry the same salaries but definitely is a great field to be in. Advisory is considered more prestigious than audit but less so than the big consulting firms.</p>
<p>I don’t have first hand experience so this is what I’ve researched and learned talking to professionals.</p>
<p>Thanks for the information. Any idea if they look for something specific for advisory roles, as compared to the recruitment process for audit?</p>
<p>Don’t know man they don’t really recruit advisory at my school. Try and talk to career services for a better idea of that.</p>