Start your career as a junior technical consultant, evolve and move up the ranks with years of experience, become a confirmed consultant then a senior consultant and manager. What are the main skills you need to develop in your field and in your professional career?
Technical skills essential for rapid progress
There are grades within the digital transformation strategy consulting firms, with different evolutions and missions. A junior consultant can become a senior or confirmed consultant by progressing in his or her field if he or she meets the conditions often consolidated by the HR department in a skills grid. A change of position requires solid knowledge and specific skills.
In the course of their work, consultants will learn to master the various business solutions of the customers they work for, and will develop their skills in the technologies deployed.
A technical consultant obviously needs to have real technical skills. It will be the ally of the company’s IT functions. He doesn’t necessarily need to be an expert in the field in which he operates, such as human resources, finance, organization or change management, even if this is a plus for him.
A progressive career development
The technical consultant must propose to the customer the solutions adapted to his problematic and his business stakes.
He can evolve quite quickly in his professional career and become after a few years manager or project manager.
In many consulting companies, the career development of a consultant is like this:
- Junior consultant (average duration 1 to 2 years)
- Confirmed consultant (average duration 1 to 2 years). He participates in the creation and presentation of deliverables to clients. He/she supervises the trainees/juniors and conducts interviews.
- Senior consultant: He has already several years of experience and has acquired certain technical and relational skills. He is in charge of managing the mission modules. He leads workshops.
- Manager / project leader: he/she is in charge of a project from A to Z. He is responsible for all the achievements. As a manager, he is in charge of mentoring and evaluating consultants. He is also in charge of pre-sales and recruitment of consultants (junior to senior).
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Qualities to be deployed for an increase in skills: listening and autonomy
With an analytical mind and rational reasoning, the consultant is first and foremost a listener to his client. Because he’ll be able to carry out project management and apply his technical and functional knowledge, he’ll need to be highly autonomous in order to have the necessary know-how to carry out the work.
People skills are also essential for a consultant. To enhance their skills and develop their careers rapidly, consultants must also develop their soft skills, in particular their emotional intelligence, empathy, time management, stress management and communication skills.
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