By:
Amanda Fletcher
on Wednesday, December 30, 2009,
under
consulting,
Stonehenge,
careers
Being a consultant is not just a job, it is a career.
As a recruiter, I talk to people who are
actively looking for a change in employment opportunities, as well
as those who are happy with the day-to-day work at their current
employer. There is definitely a different approach taken by these
two types of candidates. Those who are actively looking for
something new are typically underutilized in the current capacity
and want a challenge. Candidates who are happy in their existing
roles may not realize that there is something more out there.
As a consultant, our employees are continually challenged and
pushed to find a better solution for our customers.
There is certainly a difference between a "job" and a "career".
This is a job: The alarm clock goes off in the morning, we wrestle
with the snooze button and try to come up with an excuse to call in
sick. When you do get to the office, you count down the minutes to
lunch, and then to 5pm, and then the days until the weekend when
you can forget what it is you loathe Monday through Friday. That is
a job. It pays the bills, gives you something to do for 40 hours
(or more!) and that is it. No room for growth, nothing particularly
challenging or exciting about the tasks at hand.
A career is what gets you excited to get out of bed in the
morning. There are continual challenges and problems that need to
be solved on a day-to-day basis. You are pushed intellectually to
find the best solution. You are needed to make something a
success.
That's why consulting is a career, not a job. When our clients
call us, they have a problem that needs to be solved quickly. Our
customers come back time and time again because they can rely on us
to solve their problems in a cost effective and professional way.
Clients have even been known to ask for a specific StoneHenge
Partners employee by name, because they know and trust the results
we deliver.
The types of projects that we are involved in use the latest and
greatest technologies and solutions in the development effort. In
this type of setting our consulting staff is able to consistently
hone their technical skills and stay well ahead of their
non-consulting peers in terms of experience. Our statistics show
that working one year as a StoneHenge consultant is equivalent to
the knowledge gained in three years working in a standard IT
department.
Variety is another dynamic benefit of being a consultant.
StoneHenge supports many diverse customers across industry and
technology platforms. Our consultants have the opportunity to work
for insurance companies developing mainframe applications; airlines
developing data warehousing and business intelligence systems; and
car rental companies developing websites and .NET applications. The
list goes on
and on.
Our consultants work well with all different levels of users. We
can talk the talk with the guy in the trenches or give management
and non-technical types a high level overview of what the solution
will give them in the end. We work side-by-side educating best
practices and latest trends in the IT field. We are not bound by
one technology, language, or philosophy, making us extremely adept
at solving all of the clients' critical needs.
Want to start a career today?View our career
opportunities, or talk to me.