How would you describe your analyst/associate/consultant day-to-day job in a job interview?

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I listen to what my client wants and build it. Then listen to what they want different tomorrow and build it. Repeat until they run out of budget

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Don’t try to answer this question in a generic “day-in-a-life” way. Use a project as an example and explain your responsibilities in that. You can start of as “in my most recent project, I was responsible for xyz workstream. I would coordinate.....”

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Crowdsource that behavioral interview answer. Nice. That’s working smart.

But yeah - that’s my answer. I crowdsource answers and put them into a ppt and wait for edits that were included in the version I handed in 3 decks ago.

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Have you ever gone to any of the internet "casting couch" theme sites. Yeah that is going to be your life for the next 5 years

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First read everything so you get a sense of what the hell is going on (SOW, internal materials, client materials). This will help prevent you from asking obvious questions down the line and may also help you point out other obscure facts that those above you didn’t waste time to read into. Listen to SM/M direction and write everything down. Review your notes to get a good understanding of the ask. If there’s something you’re not sure about ask your M to confirm. Only ask if this is something you can’t find on your own. Also make sure to have a sense of the timeline so you know the level of effort required and don’t leave your M hanging cause you’re too busy putting together a perfect slide. Once done analyze work for mistakes and also think about why M/SM wanted this done and what could potentially be a value add that they may have not thought about. Yea that’s about what a day in the life looks like for me

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C2, that's not describing your skillset in an interview, that's just doing what you're supposed to from a soft skills perspective

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