ABSTRACT
I started my career in consultancy immediately after completing my MBA. Like many of my contemporaries, I thought consultancy offered an obvious opportunity to apply my newly gained knowledge. It seemed unlikely that many companies would give me, someone who had spent ten years in sales and marketing, a highly paid job in their finance department, or any other function of which I had no direct experience. Yet that was the hope of many people taking their MBAs, that they would be able to jump the functional barrier. Consultancy offered the best possibility, but even then, the most attractive offer I was able to get was in a specialist marketing consultancy.
