Thought for the day: would our industry benefit from an external professional award to validate professional standards, skills and competencies? Kind of like the CFA, but for consultants.

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Certified Bullshitter (CB) would definitely make for an accurate professional certification on my resume and provide clients with a realistic expectation of services

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There’s a Chartered Management Consultant certification - but what good is it? Our jobs are too subjective, broad and non-standardized that it really doesn’t say much.

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MBAs vary in quality, scope and tend to be more academic, used to get a foot in the door. Doesn’t really speak to professional competency.

How about an industry-normalized qual that you work through in parallel to your first 2-3 years on the job?

The questions will be like how do you handle a “pls fix” from a partner on a Friday evening

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Other than bullshitting, what other central skills do we all share? How do we test them?

It's sad but you've a point.
Storylining, structuring, analysis etc. should be common skills.
Unfortunately they aren't - too many so-called consultants happy to have the likes of 'process diagram' as headline.

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