How should I think through this internal-audit career issue: Career Advice?

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When an internal-audit career question feels messy, the cleanest response is to break it into root cause, next move, ...

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The source thread at https://www.reddit.com/r/InternalAudit/comments/1q6h3n8/career_advice/ raised 'Career Advice', and the useful source signal was: I’m an Internal Audit Associate in London at one of the US Investment Banks covering Markets and looking for possible exit opportunities. The role seems to be quite sticky with internal moves seemingly impossible and external roles being in IA as well, which I’m not keen on pursu. Use that as a diagnostic prompt. Ask what is actually failing: the environment, your preparation, or the fit of the work itself. Then design a 90-day test instead of making a vague all-or-nothing judgment.

A strong reset usually means documenting the kind of work you want more of, tightening one visible skill gap, testing the external market before resigning, and gathering cleaner evidence about whether the problem is local or structural.

```mermaid
flowchart TD
  A[Current friction] --> B[Root cause]
  B --> C[Skill gap or role mismatch]
  C --> D[90-day experiment]
  D --> E[Next move]
```

Internal audit decisions improve when the diagnosis becomes explicit. If the diagnosis stays blurry, every option starts to feel wrong.

How should I think through this internal-audit career issue: Career Advice?

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