See my previous posts in this series: Part 1, Part 2
My Mission as a Contributing Author for WSO
What I am trying to do is to take WSO into the next stage. Although this is a career oriented advice column, I think it would be really useful to provide an entire package of full education and advice on how to be a gentleman. I believe this holistic approach can help build up a strong core with value system that can benefit both at professional and personal level.
I will be focusing all the blogs into two groups: inner game and outer game. Inner game focuses on how to build your value system. Outer game focuses on tactical approach on networking, social skills, and non-verbal and verbal communication.
Discussion Materials
ER Q&A
Free Modeling Course
ER Reports & Templates
Resources on Personal Development
Motivation
I will make it very clear that I am NOT:
· An adviser: To be an adviser, you end up sounding like a narcissist who keeps talking about himself without really addressing the situation that you are facing. I want to tailor my advice only to you without talking about myself.
· A life coach: To be considered a coach, I must be doing everything right; but I am not. I am just like you, I am still learning and growing every day.
· An expert: To be an expert, you must have established a track record and you do this for a living; and I don’t.
· A guru: To be a guru, you must keep providing up-in-the-air advices that don’t have direct application to your life. I wouldn’t want to waste your time as much as I wouldn’t want to waste mine.
Since I got most of the things out of the way, here is what I am really ABOUT:
· I can be your buddy in addressing issues and giving you unbiased advice.
· I want to provide ideas and best practices that you can work on.
· I will give you the motivation and a set of tools for your to reach your potential.
· I will direct you to the right person, books or reference materials that you can use to move to the next stage in life.
My goal is to help you to reach out to your potential through helping you to:
· find your passion and goal in life
· provide a set of tools to succeed in your career
· answer questions about life
· become happy with yourself
· improve your communication skills
If there were anything in particular that you would like me to discuss, please do let me know. For example, 1) how to find your dreams, 2) how to find balance between work and life, and so forth.
Interview prep?
I start working in a month and a half. My company is flying out all of it's new consultants to a central location, so that it becomes a firm-wide new hire training. From my understanding, training is a week long and will be full-day intensive. Am I better off fostering friendships with my regional office, or networking with consultants across the country? Should I be the guy who volunteers himself for every activity/demonstration, or should I lay low to avoid being pretentious? Thanks.
I've been to a couple of these orientation/training deals, one with a BB and one with a large consulting firm, and regardless of the industry there seems to be two types of people that participate. There is the guy/girl who asks honest, thoughtful questions or offers the intermittent answer. The other type opens their mouth at every opportunity and goes on some pedantry whether or not a question was asked.
You can spot this person pretty easily; here are a few signs: 1) Only network with senior people 2) Ignore less senior people, HR, and fellow new hires 3) Begin every question with, "I know... XYZ, but... Volcker rule... industry trends... Jamie Dimon?" 4) Possess little to no self-awareness 5) To quote Rounders, "If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour... then you ARE the sucker."
To your question about networking with consultants from your regional office or others, that depends what type of staffing policy your firm has and what your goals are for firm-wide training. If you just want to enjoy it and meet new people, it doesn't matter obviously. If you are looking to make connections that may come in handy later on, then you need to take into consideration how people are staffed for your engagements. If your firm only staffs out of one office for every engagement, you won't be working with people from other offices obviously. In any case I would encourage you to try to enjoy your time at training because most of them are set up for new hires to have at least some fun.
+1. Solid advice.
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