I’m an incoming consultant. What are some skills I should work on to better prepare myself for the job?

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Excel shortcuts, Ppt design, alcoholism, Tableau, Bullshitting, and maybe basic financial modeling. Hope this helps!

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Become a great a*s kisser

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sap, traffic lights, staff aug. They put you where they sell work.

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Excel/PPT - I’m still improving those skills!

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Drinking.

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Tableau, PowerBI, spotfire, ECT. those will definitely set you apart from the rest. Visualizing data is king in this field

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Visio BPMN

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that data and analytics stuff sells really well...

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Just get all your sleep in for a few years and enjoy staying in one place for longer than a week.

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