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As one of us is ‘needed’ in the office. I have not been doing anything billable for the last few weeks and now working on random BD slides. I feel like the team assistant and definitely not adding value.

Is this situation not a little strange?

Have other people in your firm started in the same capacity? Is there a hiring process in place to have someone backfill? Were you given guidance on when you would be client facing (ie once next project sells-here’s a list of what could close)?

Yeah, so I joined last August with three other college graduates who are the individuals on client site. Four of us joined at the same time. They have all been on this particular project for close to 2 months.

So, the next cohort join in the coming August so I would assume that’s when they can take my place as the dogsbody but who knows.

Not very transparent in that sense, I’ve heard stuff in the pipeline but don’t think the local RFPs have come back positive. I worked in industry for a year before this, so struggling to deal with the utter lack of utilisation.

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