What exactly is consulting?
Hi can someone explain to me what consulting is?
Thanks
Jul 28, 2012
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It's a job where the vast majority of new entrants know how to use Google.
Consulting is structured problem solving.
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this one.
Getting information, understanding information, asking for more information, thinking about the information, presenting the information... doing it all over again.
I still have no fucking clue.
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