Hi Fishes,
New to Consulting. Needed your advice on 'upskilling' oneself for career growth. Would love suggestions for things to focus on outside of the engagement work. This could be in terms of books, online courses, certifications or general career advice for an Analyst looking to climb up ranks.
I understand that demand for consulting in India currently is growing at a fairly high rate and think this would be helpful to other newly hired analysts/consultants as well.
Appreciate the help.

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New to consulting here as well.

You can refer to books like
McKinsey Way - how consulting works
Pyramid Principle - how to present ideas

Also there's a course on LinkedIn learning called consulting foundations. Might check that.

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Thanks for the input, will check these out

And the thing that matters here is networking. Make sure to build that rapport with peers and seniors alike.

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Pre and Post virtual meeting convos with peers and seniors.
Show genuine interest in their workex
Ask for their advise on navigating thru consulting/best practices
Offer to support them with their work if you're free from your project
Add them on your LinkedIn
The usual grind, y'know?

You have not mentioned your current role or background so below is the generic feedback —-

Current trend- cloud, devops , automation, data science
Next trend - IoT, ML, AI

Choose learning new technology as per ur current role so it can be applied immediately as experience.

Start with free course on udemy, acloud guru, Pluralsight etc. once get basic overview opt for paid course and complete certification.

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I see how personalized feedback would be more helpful, have added my background and experience as a comment under the post.
Again, thank you for your feedback.

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