Hi all,This is basically one of those "am I good enough....?" threads, so I hope people don't mind helping me out a bit.I’m slowly turning my head towards consultancy (ideally strategy) but I'm a bit concerned I may have missed the boat already. It isn’t something I was set on through university, as many successful applicants seem to be. I didn’t do any summer schemes or internships, and haven’t had any experience within the consultancy sector itself. I'm currently working for a strategic charitable funder, and am loving it, and it's this that has really piqued my interest in strategic consultancy as a FT career. My academics are strong - I have straight A* through GCSE and A-Level, took a First in social sciences from Oxford, and won some college and university prizes. I've worked and travelled abroad, interned in a few charities, and done some freelance research and writing contracts. I've also got a fellowship to do my MA in International Relations next year - the university is good (top 50 worldwide for IR) - but I don't think it will be classed as target.So to cut to the nub: will I be competitive with the MBB? I can't show a lifelong commitment or demonstrable interest in consultancy thus far, and I know this will put me at a significant disadvantage. I'm concerned that to be stuck on an intern's stipend two years after graduating paints me as a bit transient - clever enough but lacking the requisite ambition or direction.I’ll be a 2011 graduate applying for a 2014 start, and though I’ve got some good stuff for my CV in these years, I'm worried I look too much like a chancer who’s giving this a stab after few years of drifting? Does this matter?
