This is a reflection that I wrote for myself in 2008. I had done a year of Management Consulting in India and the USA. It was a very different experience and here are my thoughts. On the 1st January, 2014, I post the reflections here
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It has been more than a year since I have graduated from Business School and it has been an interesting journey since then. To sum it all, life after Business School has been all about hard work, managing expectations and handling pressure. I have enjoyed my stint at Management Consulting. I got to write a thought article (that was published in a magazine), work on projects in different sectors (Automobile, Telecom, Staffing Solutions,Aerospace) and got a chance to work or be at India, UAE, US, Canada and Thailand - all in the last one year.
Any reflections? Yes, of course. I was thinking about the past year during one of my flights to home, and here are some of my observations or the statements that I have constantly heard.
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It has been more than a year since I have graduated from Business School and it has been an interesting journey since then. To sum it all, life after Business School has been all about hard work, managing expectations and handling pressure. I have enjoyed my stint at Management Consulting. I got to write a thought article (that was published in a magazine), work on projects in different sectors (Automobile, Telecom, Staffing Solutions,Aerospace) and got a chance to work or be at India, UAE, US, Canada and Thailand - all in the last one year.
Any reflections? Yes, of course. I was thinking about the past year during one of my flights to home, and here are some of my observations or the statements that I have constantly heard.
- Consulting is all about being proactive, not reactive
- MS Excel and MS Powerpoint are two powerful tools
- Consultants work very hard, clients pay a lot of money and expect them to deliver value
- There is a lot of brain power in a consulting firm
- Honesty with clients is of paramount importance, Trust once lost is difficult to regain
- Impressions matter! Watch out for how you dress, carry yourself and communicate
- There would be several stressful moments and if you can get through them, you'll develop into a better consultant.
- There are no slackers in the consulting business. There is no choice -you have to work hard
- Fitness (mental and physical) is important.
- Project Director determines the work culture of a team working on a particular project
- Work life balance is tough! If you are perhaps aiming for that, consulting is not a wise career choice.
- Fresh out of business school, you can have some really good perspective
- And lastly, a busy consultant is a happy consultant
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