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This question may have been asked several times already but, what would be your top 5 skills/certifications that would be helpful for my career in consulting ? (i.e : TOGAF, PMP, IIBA...)

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Turns out consulting services are becomming more speciallized. Do you want to become a project manager? a product manager? a solutions architect? a data scientist?
During your career you will go through phaaes. As a junior the best value you can bring is technical excellence (yes, coding, data management, and so on).
As a senior you will have to be the "god" of some techs and sectors, and be able to direct your padawans, and engage the client to really understand in detail the expectations and challenges, as well as clearly explain the solutions.
As a manager you will have to be able to make the things happen, and start to really get involved in the sales process.
As a partner you will be focused mostly on sales, and you will have to really select your portfolio, alliances and team.
You will go through certifications in technologies, to pmp/scrum/whatever, mba's or similar education and there is a point where certifications are no longer usefull, is your personal brand what matters.

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An MBA. No one cares about certifications.

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Unfortunately this is the answer

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An agile/scrum very would be good

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TOGAF was the first very you mentioned - are you in tech consulting?

I'd just pick one of the cloud providers and get in their certification path. I'd lean towards an architect or data science/ML specialization

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