what skills do u have

Consulting

Basically anything where you’re outsourced for a white collar job

I can fly you up @op. What’s in it for me?

Traveling nurse or med tech

Some construction jobs require a lot of travel especially when your building stores rather than houses

Call Deloitte, PwC, KPMG, E&Y, Accenture, Tata Consulting Services

I used to do consulting for that purpose exactly

Realized if I wfh I can do the same thing without crazy big 4 work balance

Work travel loses its luster tho, becomes a grind more than a privilege at some point.

But do you boo

How do I become a consultant but I don't know s***

I do have a degree though

My path is a little different

In college I did consulting work for non profits, took a class on consulting and the prof helped me get an internship at a consulting firm. After that Deloitte was doing this thing where they was helping college students get a certification and I joined the program even tho I had the cert already from the internship.

Fast forward to covid since I already had the cert I was one of the few people who “completed” the program and got invited to networking event for campus hires at Deloitte. After that I got invited to interview with them, and did like 3/4 interviews and got the job.

For you I’d suggest network with people in the company you’re looking for. Look out for networking events and craft your resume and experience to be based on problem solving, working on teams, working with clients, being willing and able to learn quickly, and working on projects where the requirements are vague and you had to come up with your own solution. Since you graduated do some consulting work on the side/get a job at a smaller firm so you’ll be more competitive. That’ll help you on as well on interviews and networking since you’ll be able to use the consulting jargon correctly and have real experience to speak on.

At my time at Deloitte I met people with architecture degrees that was a consultant. So don’t let your degree stop you. The project manager on my project had a aviation engineering degree and experience making airplane parts which is the complete opposite of what the project was so you’ll be okay as long as you can demonstrate that you can problem solve, work well will others, learn on the fly, and can complete tasks even when the instructions are unclear.

That’s really what they’re looking for because that’s exactly what consulting is. A lot of these big 4 companies spend loads of money on training their employees so not knowing everything/a lot is okay.

Once you start your journey and start getting interviews hit me up, those consulting interviews are crazy and they will 100% guaranteed try to trick into saying some dumb s***. Or ask you about some s*** about something they know you don’t know and see what you say.

For example, I had to do a case study for my internship and I didn’t know how to code at the time, so they asked me why I couldn’t complete that part of the study that required writing code. I told them I didn’t know how to code, and the follow up question was why didn’t I ask my contact for help (apparently the contact was one of the best programmers in all of NYS ). Then, for Deloitte they asked what will I do if a task is assigned to me and it’s beyond my capabilities. Because of the internship I learned the right answer was “I’d get as much work done as I can and reach out to someone on my team for help.”

Writing essays on the clock

Find god dude

Hate business travel but the 5 star hotels, food, and people you’re with is what makes it nice. Other than that, hate being in the airport, and being on the plane, it’s not all that it seems imo at least and after a while it definitely gets to you mentally