Recruiter Magnet

To move up the ranks in management consulting, it’s more or less mandatory that you have a specialisation. I had spent the better part of a two-year consulting career being pulled onto projects without direction, hoping to find something that clicked. Eventually I wound up on a design thinking project, and I loved it. I thought the approach to problem solving made sense and I felt immense pleasure re-engaging the creative side of my brain that had been collecting dust since art class in high-school.

Completing the ten-week course was colossal. My day job was uncharacteristically busy at the time so the course on top of my regular project work had me effectively working a seven-day week. This left little space to go into the depth on the Academy Xi project that I was accustomed to. But to my surprise we arrived at as meaningful insights and solutions as I had on other, more immersive projects. This was the most significant learning I got out of the course — while you can take your time with design thinking, there is still so much value that can come from short, targeted sprints if you nail the process.

After graduating I was eager to get thrown on to more design thinking projects. Unfortunately, as is the nature of consulting, my company didn’t have a pipeline for this kind of work at the time. I was also receiving a lot of interest from recruiters after adding the Academy Xi training to my LinkedIn profile, so I started considering external opportunities.

There was no shortage of roles available, but it wasn’t easy to find the right one. I had conversations with a handful of companies that I didn’t think were the right fit for me and vice versa. But a couple of months into this little adventure I found a company that was interested in my particular skillset and that approached design thinking in the way I wanted to work.

I’m still settling into my new role but I’m loving being able to focus solely on design thinking. I have plenty more to learn but I have felt really confident in my abilities. I’d put this down to previous experience but also largely to the IP I inherited from the Academy Xi course and to leaning on my two instructors who I still bother today and who continue to be incredibly helpful.

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