Funnily enough, consulting, while coming in 100 flavors, is pretty often something where you can actually get hired with a variety of degrees, and get trained on the content. Being sharp and talking fast are basically the primary requirements.
Management consultancies like McKinsey are like, the platonic ideal of that, where they recruit the top graduates out of pretty much any program with a math requirement, stuff them in a suit and run them ragged on 60+ hour weeks for a couple years, until they jump ship with a prestigious reference and a 6 figure bank account.
That's. Not for everyone. But there's a whole spectrum below that, branching into two major varieties.
1) consultancy as a service - kind of like the big fishes, just more specialized on specific topics, and less high stakes/high stress. Here, being a subject matter expert from experience is more expected, but depends.
2) product consultancy - imagine going to a really fancy tailor, where they have you sit down, fondle fabric swatches, offer you a drink, take your measurements and really talk shit through. Imagine being that tailor, but not actually having to sew anything, just the talking and measuring part. That's it, that's the job. Only for, e.g. software, telco tech, training programmes, catering, furniture, or literally anything else a company might spend enough money on to warrant a little handholding and customization.
Still not for everyone, but tbh often pretty great for Jack of all trades types like me xD
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Date: 22/2/19 20:11 (UTC)Management consultancies like McKinsey are like, the platonic ideal of that, where they recruit the top graduates out of pretty much any program with a math requirement, stuff them in a suit and run them ragged on 60+ hour weeks for a couple years, until they jump ship with a prestigious reference and a 6 figure bank account.
That's. Not for everyone. But there's a whole spectrum below that, branching into two major varieties.
1) consultancy as a service - kind of like the big fishes, just more specialized on specific topics, and less high stakes/high stress. Here, being a subject matter expert from experience is more expected, but depends.
2) product consultancy - imagine going to a really fancy tailor, where they have you sit down, fondle fabric swatches, offer you a drink, take your measurements and really talk shit through. Imagine being that tailor, but not actually having to sew anything, just the talking and measuring part. That's it, that's the job. Only for, e.g. software, telco tech, training programmes, catering, furniture, or literally anything else a company might spend enough money on to warrant a little handholding and customization.
Still not for everyone, but tbh often pretty great for Jack of all trades types like me xD