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What Consultants Actually Do?

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Consulting is a term thats tossed around in boardrooms, business school campuses, and everyday conversation. Yet, what do consultants actually do? Despite common stereotypes and vague assumptions, the consulting profession is multifaceted and demanding. Their compensation is often closely tied to the firms overall performance.

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How to Start a Successful Consulting Business: The Complete 10 Step Guide (2019)

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Business writing consulting. Consultants can often teach business owners to write better, or shadow write for them. Career consulting. Many people are in a transition and career consultants will always be in demand to help people find the next best thing. Communications consulting.

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How to manage a college education | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

The alumni associations' staff are often-times comprised of people who've worked in corporate America, the non-profit sector or government — they haven't just been sitting in the ivory towers of academia for decades as so many in the career centers have been done. "Career centers cater to companies, not candidates."

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Being an expert takes time, not talent | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

The article that I’m attached to is The Making of an Expert by Anders Ericsson , Michael Prietula and Edward Cokely. I would not normally bother to tell you all three authors for one article in my blog. But I love the article so much, that I want you to know all of them. This is not a medical journal. In my life.

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