Presales focuses on winning approval, not on life after year one. Executives rarely hear about long-term support costs, knowledge retention, or operational ownership. These topics feel inconvenient during sales discussions. But they define success later. A mature leadership team asks about sustainment, not just implementation. If no one can clearly explain how the system will be supported in two years, the project’s future is already uncertain.

Thoughts on using all your vacation days? Is the norm for people to use all their days? And what is thought of people who block off weeks at year end with all the vacation they will lose if they don’t

Did anyone use the career assistance for spouse in the relo package? Is it worth it?

Anyone else think headlines for pitches and client presentations are bullshit? Those headlines will never exist

Has anyone left, or had an associate leave, a small firm and remain of counsel or in some other capacity to assist with a handful of matters going to trial? How did you structure compensation? Don’t want to leave my boss in the lurch with some big cases going to trial at end of year but also can’t use those as excuses to stay. Would like to offer a reasonable proposal. Even if boss turns it down, I’ll feel better about knowing I offered to help.

Does anybody have a good guide or resource they can point to in regards to show clients how to organize their documents for our firm? A lot of time is wasted here going through discovery documents we receive from clients because the docs are disorganized and not annotated - it just becomes a whole scavenger hunt and it’s eating into our time like crazy.

A friend of mine and I are both starting our life firms from scratch. We both do two different areas of law. How can we help each other with referrals and networking? We live in an area that’s pretty geographically large in two different parts of town.

Do any programs besides HBS heavily utilize the case method?

How much can I ask for with 4+ years experience at strong nyc agencies?

Does anyone struggle with finding good randoms to spot you while bench pressing? I work out at a local park district and every time I’m working with a heavy load, my spotter will immediately cont.

I am looking for a referral to Accounting Advisory.

Quick Background:

2.5 years Audit (Big4 and Small firm) + 1 year in FAAS.

I have a problem. Idk how to even begin fixing this...
I'm staying up almost every night watching shiz on my phone until 2am, wake up at 7 for meetings completely groggy. Can't stop myself.
Can't get myself to workout or even eat healthy. Unable to focus at work. Not sure how do I break this cycle. I tried putting my phone away - it doesn't work. I have insomnia + I'm a light sleeper so it's very easy for me to get up and grab my phone. Idk how to stop eating sugar & junk.

Do we see opportunity in JNUG at these levels? Possibly 2 week call to get the rate cut effects?

So would you say Andy from Shawshank redemption was a Banker? Seems to me that the service he provided was more of a CPA.

I want an advice on which field would be good on both future and salary. CYBER SECURITY ENGINEER OR SOC ANALYST? any advice will be appreciated.

Anyone here from LPA and willing to talk or give insights into the company, projects and current situation?

Not much to be found online.

Anyone know how to get a position as an HRBP without HRPB experience? All positions I've looked at want previous experience. Would over 5 years of HR experience and a PHR suffice, or what skills should be added to that?

I will resign in coming few days. I want my notice period to be reduced from 60 day to say 30days. I am not occupied in client project currently. My question is to whom should I talk to get my notice period reduced? What is the process?

Plan to go to B-school in 3 years (1 year out of UG now). Long term goal is entrepreneurship. Have offers at a MBB firm for a generalist consultant role and at FAANG for a strategy role. FAANG offer is slightly higher (though both are a 50+% bump on my current comp). Both would have me reset to entry level. Which one should I take?

I want to be qualified / informed enough to be able to reasonably brand myself as an ML or/and IoT expert. (Consultant) what's the fastest way?

What is the best resource for diving into kubernetes? I’ve got 7 years of infrastructure/cloud background but haven’t had much of a chance to dive into containerization.

What are some of the most useful excel and ppt tips and things to learn as a new hire to be effective on an engagement?

Move from SAP practice to Ivalua ? Good or bad career move (7 years experience in SAP )

Fellow IT Consultants. I am a BA on System implementations and would like to learn AWS. Can someone help me get started? How about the certification for administrator ? Cont..

How to reduce stress? Provide real workable solutions please. Don’t copy paste google stuff!

What level Azure certification do recruiters start to express interest in? Administrator? Dev? Anything more advanced than fundamentals?

I work heavily in AWS and am looking to learn another cloud platform. I have zero knowledge of azure and gcp and would like input on which to learn. Azure would make sense since its the second largest in terms of market share, but GCP seems far more interesting and technically challenging with things like Kubernetes and BigQuery.

The thing I struggle with the most on a project is being able to quickly understand the business process of the clients across different industries. Any tips or resources I can use to improve that?

Recommendations on developing a database that can pull public info from the internet for use in a web application

Looking to specialize in privacy and was considering getting the CIPP/CIPM/CIPT. I already have my CISSP and CISA. Is it worth it?

Thoughts on Workday? Is it a hot product? Worth it to learn it?

Looking to get a masters centered around software engineering, anyone have any experience with CS masters where they were able to focus on that field? Would prefer online if possible!

To people who have worked on both, what is the main difference in responsibility for a consultant working on a COTS delivery project compared to more bespoke agile one? I have experience in agile bespoke delivery, would I find it easy to switch to COTS implementation?

CohnReznick hiring for cyber/tech risk ... seniors and managers. Lmk if anyone interested.

Looking for 2 to 8 YOE for lateral hire in Technology consulting roles. Folks with red hat, open shift, RPA, BPM, Salesforce CRM, big data & Analytics experience and certification, DM me for referrals.

What company have you worked for that has the least amount of office politics?

Interviewing with Oracle for Senior Director role (Strategic Client group). 18+ yoe
How is the work culture and PIP at Oracle? I have a comp discussion planned this week, any insights into their salary structure will help - base, joining bonus, RSUs, etc...

Do you see any organizations moving away from ServiceNow? With how expensive the plaform is, i imagine that lackluster implementations result in some organizations having a bad taste in their mouths.

How often do you see folks moving away from it and where are they moving to?