Most Preferred Consulting & General Management Recruiters - Part IV - InsideIIM Recruitment Survey 2015

Ever since the Global Financial Crisis led to a complete hiring freeze in the bulge-bracket investment banks, strategy consulting roles have uniformly gained more favour with the students of the select institutes which traditionally have had access to both of these “premier” roles. Although banks still find favour with those who are quantitatively inclined, consulting offers intellectually challenging work with a lot of breadth. Furthermore, consulting firms, being relatively inured to the vagaries of financial markets’ performance, tend to hire at a uniform rate each year. In addition to these external factors, MBA grads are now content with being affluent, rather than being obscenely rich albeit with a significant quantum of risk. Thus, by virtue of all these factors, consulting has emerged as the most highly rated vertical in the latest edition of the InsideIIM Recruitment Survey. However, one must take cognizance of the fact that it is only the “strategy consulting” which are perceived as very lucrative and not implementation/process consulting. In this regard, one must also acknowledge that these strategy consulting firms in big numbers only from 3/4 campuses in India wherein only the best profiles make the cut.