It depends. The term "consulting" covers a WIDE variety of completely different jobs and companies. In a lot of cases, it means white-collar contracting, and it can be for any white-collar job that you'd normally hire someone for.
It varies so wildly. You've got capital-C Consultants like McKinsey, but you also have like "we outsourced our IT to another company with more specialized expertise", or "we bought into the grift economy around some ridiculously complex SaaS tool and hired a certified consultant to set it up for us"
Someone here posted a tiktok a few months ago of some lady who worked at a consulting firm and she showed what her daily routine is like.
She basically just talked with her coworkers, went to lunch, came back and talked some more. It was basically adult daycare
And she gets paid six figures to teach executives what multi-colored sticky notes are.
What does a consultant actually do?
I've never understood exactly what consulting is. Do they do independent research on behalf of a company? Do they read tea leaves?
deleted by creator
Don't forget laundering unpopular decisions that would've been made anyways
deleted by creator
Consultants serve as professional scapegoats. Executives hire them so that they can do what they want and have someone to blame when it goes wrong.
It’s just vibes. Consultants are hired to tell you what you want here. I’d they don’t, you hire another consultant.
It depends. The term "consulting" covers a WIDE variety of completely different jobs and companies. In a lot of cases, it means white-collar contracting, and it can be for any white-collar job that you'd normally hire someone for.
It varies so wildly. You've got capital-C Consultants like McKinsey, but you also have like "we outsourced our IT to another company with more specialized expertise", or "we bought into the grift economy around some ridiculously complex SaaS tool and hired a certified consultant to set it up for us"
Consultant is just a fancy word for someone who does something for a client. Lots of software developers are consultants.