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Is A Job In Consulting Right For You?

Do you want to learn how to kick start your career in consulting?

Hanzala Qureshi
5 min readApr 20, 2021

Do you want to learn how to kick start your career in consulting? Whether you are a new graduate or looking to transition from your current career to consulting; you’ve come to the right place!

In this week’s blog we will explore:

#1 What consultants actually do? Things that don’t get covered in the job description

#2 What are the different kind of consulting firms? Trust me, there are many. I have worked at a few myself.

#3 What kind of skills are important to be successful in consulting?

#4 Why you should consider working in consulting?

#1 What consultants actually do?

You would be consulting; no sh*t sherlock!

Let me break it down, you would be providing advice to a client to help them resolve some of their most complex problems. Depending on what type of consulting you do; this could mean full implementation of an IT solution or a strategy on how they should run their new business unit.

But how would you know how to do that?

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Hanzala Qureshi
Hanzala Qureshi

Written by Hanzala Qureshi

Data Architecture Consultant | Data Evangelist | Learn more about all things data by following me @ hanzalaqureshi.medium.com

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