What differentiates an analyst from a consultant?would like to know how to perform at the next level looking into it long term

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Ownership, being proactive, and seeing the bigger picture. When you're an analyst, you're usually asked to do x number of things - update this, compute this, fix that, etc. For the most part you can swap analysts in and out (to an extent). As an analyst, as long as you do good work or learn from mistakes and become a reliable person to complete work, you're good.

Consultants on the other hand understand how the 5 things an analyst was tasked to do work together to lead to certain deliverable/outcome. Consultants now own workstreams and don't need to be given as much guidance. They can be tasked with interviewing the client SMEs and be trusted to develop a comprehensive and thorough list of questions to obtain the information required (just an example).

If you want to be a Consultant start acting like one. Before asking questions, think of a potential solution and present it that way instead of just "I need help". Start thinking about the project's desire outcome is and ask yourself how your outputs are driving towards that.

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Analyst is the doer, consultant creates value out of the work/data done by the analyst

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