Pros and cons to the operations practice at McKinsey? McKinsey & Company
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Hi All - I desperately need help with something. I was an ex management consultant and recently lost my job. I have been getting decent number of calls but am having a lot of trouble converting them past the 2nd or 3rd round. My struggle is with structured communication, thinking on the spot, being to structure my response whilst thinking (I have ADHD - not severe though). Continued in comments
Pro: you’re in operations Con: you’re in operations
Pro is getting to participating in implementing initiatives to professionalize and rationalize firm support functions. Also ops ppl are do-ers not filled with empty talk. Con is strategy folks may look down on you as plebs as you actually walk the talk
The irony of scoffing at strategy folks looking down on ops but calling MI lower in the food chain
Pros - Part of the biggest type of work at McKinsey - close to 40% of work is operations. Impact will be easy to see. Get to work with frontline to C level. Also some of the best down to earth people in McKinsey. Cons - if you are hired into it, you will always be seen as an ops person - very hard to be seen as a true generalist. Also travel can take you to remote and smaller cities.
Always being an ops person may be a pro for some people.
Where does ops fit in within the practice? I’m curious because I have close to 7 years in supply chain/ops and interested.