Has anyone here ever got into a role, and it turns out to be different than what was explained. Then you are stuck at a client where you don't have the proper experience or background to perform?

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Yes I’m in consulting

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In that case, it's called development opportunity

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Shut up lol

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Yeah I thought that was basically the job description

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I think that’s called Consulting

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I heard of a PM joining Accenture and being immediately staffed as an Architect

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They sold IT audit as consulting and now I’m dying!!

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Hahahaha that happened to me then I got a real consulting offer and renegged on my IT audit offer

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Lol, to clarify a project where it has a particular skill set such as coding and you've essentially never coded a day in your life

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Hey marketing ops guy, you can go pm an erp rollout right?

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Proper experience or background???

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Yep - worst 8 weeks of my career

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Consulting business is people placement. Everything Else is nice words

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Literally every project I’ve been on since going into consulting.

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Easy to list the opposite. Got into a job thinking what it is and turns out exactly it.

Answer: Zero

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Yes it’s called consulting.

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That's the norm. Just like how we stretch the truths in our resume. Lol!

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Stretch role

It happens. All. The. Time.

Happens all the time

That seems to be the case more often than not.

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