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Here is all the advice I typically give someone starting out in consulting: link

As for hard skills, as long as you can use excel / ppt, you'll be fine. Maybe do some free courses / watch some tutorials on YouTube. Besides knowing formulas (eg SUMIFS / COUNTIFS, INDEX-MATCH, SUMPRODUCT, etc.), it's also about organising your excel such that it is clear, clean, undertsandable, and has a logical structure to it.

For ppt, you'll learn everything you need on the job, really. 

Best of luck! 

 

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