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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And you really can’t be a an effective consultant until you’ve had experience first, how can a 21-year-old consult a business on their practices when they have no business experience themselves? [/quote]

This. I work with a company that recently hired consultants to consult on a new project that I am involved in. [b]Both of them are in their mid 20s and per LinkedIn went directly from undergrad to grad school with no real work experience. They have NO idea what they are talking about....and it is clear they are over their heads trying to give a bunch of folks in their 40s, 50s, 60s who have worked here for decades direction. [/b]

And it isn't that I don't like consultants - DH is one. But he worked in the industry for decades before transitioning over to consulting.[/quote]

Curious how this works- do companies seriously pay 20 something year olds with little to no real world experience to come and give advice? I can't imagine the folly.[/quote]

This cannot be MBB Consulting or Deloitte level… must be a small shop?… The big consultancies would never allow a mid 20’s kid to be client facing… The junior consultants are in a back room at the client site or are remote doing number crunching and modeling to provide senior consultants with information, presentations, governance models, process models, etc etc[/quote]

What? At MBB/Deloitte level, 22 year old’s with just a BS are client facing from day 1.[/quote]

Sitting in the room or zoom call mute is not the client facing I am talking about. In all my engagements, it is clear who is allowed to lead the conversation and who is taking notes. That’s what I mean by Client Facing[/quote]

This. You're sitting in the room, advancing the slides, taking notes, you're not actively presenting at 22 as a junior associate level grunt. You probably put the presentation together but it's not your job to present, yet. There's a lot of on the job training and you get more responsibility as you progress.[/quote]

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