Hello and welcome. I'm Patrick Curtis, your host and Chief Monkey, and this is the Wall Street Oasis podcast. Join me as I talk to some of the community's most successful and inspirational members to gain valuable insight into different career paths and life in general.

Let's get to it.

In this episode, Adam shares how he broke into Big Four Audit after working for a year at a

nonprofit and graduating from his super non-target school with a degree in accounting.

We learned how he ended up at that non-target,

how he made the jump into the big four, and then how his impressive performance opened doors

internally to make his final transition into more interesting strategy work. Learn why his bosses

were consistently impressed so you can try to emulate his path. Enjoy. All right, Adam, thank you so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Yeah, thank you for having me.

So it would be great if you could just give the listeners a short summary or your background.

Sure.

So right now I am a Big Four consultant.

I work on management consulting, operational consulting, a bit of strategy.

I work specifically with alternative asset managers, so most of the listeners should be familiar with that,

but we're talking PE, hedge fund, real estate, not so much on the VC side.

I have an accounting degree from a non-target school.

I recruited into the firm in the risk

assurance practice after doing a year at a nonprofit actually and then ended up making my

way into one of the broader management consulting commercial service lines two years in.

And then just due to working with some great people ended up transferring into the

ALTS practice.

I've been here officially for like three or four months.

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