First week as a Senior Consultant. Anyone in a similar position willing to navigate these befuddled waters together?

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Starting April 12th, would love to connect with y’all once I’m there.

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Start Monday. Same boat.

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Well well well we have ourself a quorum of new hires lol, i am also on the same boat, about to start in 2 weeks

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We need a support group. Hahah

Who all going to ping each other when they join lol

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Starting on the 29th!

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Same here and new to consulting in general. Ready to be confused

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I am in chicago as well

Same here, just started a week ago

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Me too

I'm starting in a few weeks at D as well. Same boat brethren.

All the best! I’d love to hear about your experience.

Same here. Starting on the 29th

All the best! Would love to know how it goes.

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I'll be starting in about 2 months now. Tell me all about it.

Lol no, I have immigration paperwork to take care of in the meanwhile.

Starting on Monday..

Went pretty well! Thanks for asking!! There’s a ton of trainings and great resources available so the day went by really fast.

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Any words of advice or tips from your experience? I start in a few weeks

Get the trainings out of the way as soon as you can. I’m told I’ll be staffed soon and I don’t know how I’ll cope. Also, I wasn’t employed under a particular sub-offering so arranging coffee chats with the various leaders is a great way to get some insight into what you want to do.

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how much was the salary.. How did you negotiated ???

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