I am about a year into consulting. Do all firms have a bench and do you have to find projects on your own?

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For bananas? 🍌

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Most firms have a bench and in most firms yoh have people managers who's job it is to help you find a project but you are also responsible for searching and interviewing etc.

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Deloitte makes you do it yourself more than other firms. Not a selling point when I was interviewing with them at my MBA.

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Deloitte doesn’t have a staffing team to help facilitate this?

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Small firms may not have a bench

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Most firms I’ve worked at/with have a bench but, there’s a specific staffing team that finds you projects. It’s not based on network. Still gotta interview of course but, you’re not hunting for you own work.

Also, most firms have business development teams and account managers. Here you have the SM/PPMD playing this role. Which is why everyone is burned out and works too much. Also why we keep losing proposals to small boutiques.

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Makes sense

At Deloitte, yes!

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Also when I first joined Deloitte like a year ago I was assigned a project like 2 days within starting and actually had several projects thrown my way. Why is it different now?

Work slow down, performance, timing, lots of factors. Train or fill your time with something to show how you spent bench time. Enjoy, work will come eventually.

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