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...no crap they’ll lack a lot of working skills considering it’s their first real job? It’s your job to train thwm
I started as an analyst and am grateful I had patient managers who were willing to guide my eager self in my first few years. Almost every analyst I’ve met comes in with a lot of energy and it’s the managers job help analysts convert that energy into value add for the team
Most are long on self-esteem, ambition, and energy, and short on just about everything else. This is fine; it's all that's required to launch a successful career in consulting.
Yes! As someone who graduated a year ago, I feel like I don’t have enough skills and am rusty around the edges 😂
Majority of new hires are up to expectations in terms of hard skills and soft skills. I've had a very few who lacked strong Excel skills and modeling skills, but they've been the exceptions.
The biggest gaps that I see are either 1) lack of willingness to put effort into what they perceive to be 'grunt' work, or 2) not open to projects that they don't immediately identify as cool.
There are also some who are very unwilling to accept feedback, but I've made a concerted effort to weed those out when I interview people for projects.
I think EY interview process should get credit for this- you have to prove on the modelling skills 😊
Generally short on everything, which is to be expected. On the hard technical skills like software development, those entry level staff are generally a bit better, but soft skills are pretty short across the board, as well as non-development hard skills.
I expect nothing less and it's our job (myself and my leads, as well as their coworkers) to train them on the job in the skills they need. It's the circle of life, same thing happened when I started out as a wet behind the ears newbie 15+ years ago.
Wildly variable in my experience. Everyone lacks skills in certain areas.