A day in the life of a consultant

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Hi all,

Just been looking round the jobs boards as I do every so often and wonder if any consultants here can give me an idea of what they do. Usually all I see of consultants is my boss telling us we have productx being installed because its cheapest, in they rock install productx with a very vague instruction on how it works off they go again leaving us to clean up the mess and shoehorn the product into our infrastructure. I have wondered occasionally about moving over to the dark side of consulting but would like to know a bit more about the stuff I dont see that you do.

From my experience consultants are sent into install a product after the sales guy has done his thing, what actually do you guys do when your not crusing around the counties and on customer sites!?

 

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That doesn't sound like a very appropriate way for a consultant to do his work.

At Microsoft Consulting Services, we work hard to provide a unified experience for all of our customers that takes into consideration their scope of expectancy and the delivery of the project as was agreed within our work order.

We do not just hand over a project once we've done our side of the work order. We must take into account our customers satisfaction as well as their skills. We have a very thorough manner in which we achieve full communication with our customers and documentation is an extremely important part of this.

It is unfortunate if you are not getting the expected results from whichever consulting company you are dealing with. At the very least, they should be able to hand off a project with full documentation and an appropriate process that makes you confident in what you will be undertaking next (often from a technology you may now know well, and will need to learn as you go on).

 

Actually that sounds pretty interesting sparky, I have often thought about consulting makes every day different I guess, It's just that my experience of consulting and the whole buying a product thing is I think a little negative(prob due to the fact that we always not matter what buy the cheapest product (public service you see gotta save them pennies) and the sales guys I have spoken to always seem to be very similar to an dog based insurance advert and the consultant turns up and realises we run mainly netware and linux boxes (the looks on their faces are always entertaining).

Might add that to my list of options on the job boards then.