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Tech to Strategy - Making the Jump |
| Message Name: |
tough road |
| Date Posted: |
09/06/2003 |
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I would like to make the same sort of move.
I have ten years of post-bachelor's degree experience working for a software startup. I'm now the CTO there.
I'm also about to graduate in May with an MBA (from a top 50, but not top 10, school).
I'd love to break into MC. I've never viewed technology as an end in itself; instead, for me it's always been an interesting way to solve a variety of business problems. I'd like to take that desire, to solve business problems, and apply it on a broader and more diverse scale. Thus the interest in MC.
It seems like my IT background is a hinderance, though. I'm wondering if there is a way to cast my experience in a different way to appear more attractive to the top MC firms (M/B/B).
Anyone got any thoughts?
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| Message: |
I agree with your philosophy about technology - I saw the consultant's that were in prior to the selection and implementation of the software that my company sold.
You will probably suffer from the usual problem of experienced hires, That is, most of the top tier strategy firms have a jesuitical approach to recruiting. They like to take them young and shape them in their image. They are not very good at fitting odd shapes into the jig-saw.
Their loss!
The MBA is a good way to get some protective coloration and learn the language.
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