Hi everybody,Excellent forum for discussions regarding a career in consultancy. I am an UK qualified accountant with commercial banking and EU development work experience currently completing an MBA at Oxford.Question for an experience consultant:- Is it better to apply to a major consultancy company through a summer internship or direct for a full-time position if your experience is not strictly in strategy consulting?Thanks for helping.

If you apply for an internship you are implicitly saying "I don't have experience in this sector, but I'd like a taster". Therefore, firms that look for interns will have accepted the idea that most applicants won't have consulting experience. That may not be true for all permanent hire posts that firms advertise.