<p>In general which one provides better exit opportunities, investment banking or management consulting?</p>
<p>Can anyone speak from personal experience on their job offers/exit opportunities while working in either of these fields?</p>
<p>You are not going to find many current bankers or consultants in these forums. But I have banking experience and I think there are equal exit opportunities for IB and consultants. Most IB people want finance related track while consultants mostly want strategy/management/development track.
It depends on your talents and interests.</p>
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<p>In summary-</p>
<p>Banking: Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Venture Capital, more Banking, other areas of finance (asset management, trading, sales, wealth management, etc.), corporate finance/development at big companies</p>
<p>Consulting: Private Equity (less so than banking, easier if you’re coming from McK/Bain/BCG), Venture Capital (less so than banking, easier if you’re coming from McK/Bain/BCG), corporate strategy/development, government, anything really (consulting provides very broad skills)</p>
<p>i actually know of some who went from management consulting to banking</p>
<p>but in general it’s more common for folks to exit into the areas giants92 mentioned - that’s where i’m looking anyway, once it’s time for me to leave consulting</p>
<p>giants92 is very correct- PE and VC and strategy ops usually for management consulting. I feel in a way strategy consulting opens more doors to you than IB though the salary is not as high as banking.</p>
<p>i agree that there are generally wider options - and the hours are usually better too!</p>
<p>Yes, that’s one I left out – switching from banking to consulting and vice versa certainly happens. Note that a large chunk of people make the above career movements through an MBA program.</p>