Re: Need Help - Career Advice

Hello Mike,

Reading between the lines leads me to believe maybe you didn't take
advantage of your golden year of busy work. Many of the "Big 6" consulting
firm follow the "let the resource gravitate to their area of passion"
principle.

Did you sign up for as many training seminars your firm would allow you to
attend?

You should have spent a lot of time networking with your peers and other
managers within the company. Your post leads me to believe you may not be
the kind of "management consultant" material your company wants to retain.
They quite often adhere to the "replace the bottom third" principle for
injecting fresh blood into the organization.

There are two kinds of assets they keep their eyes open for: The
"know-it-all" gurus who solve most of the problems and the "people handlers"
who make projects happen and keep the clients happy. It's clear you don't
consider yourself a guru so where does that leave you?

Since you haven't managed to either start your own project or slip into one
of the freshly started projects, this possibly leaves you in the bottom
third category.

What to do next? A very good question leading to a few key questions you
need to ask yourself:

- what do you like doing? -  your passion
- what are you really good at? - if you really liked SAP and/or SIEBEL, you
would be following developments whether or not you had a project
- what industry do you really like?
- what makes you say that you can't handle SAP and/or SIEBEL projects for
another company?

If your only passion is making money, then I would get out of the SAP,
SIEBEL game...

Solutions:
Invest in a seminar to get you up to speed on the latest improvements.
Target one or two industries and research everything you can on how SAP and
SIEBEL are applied to the industries...

I know for a fact that few consultants know everything about the project
they are trying to secure. The key thing is whether or not you know more
than the person hiring you and if you are able to work out a logical plan
for getting the job done...

Something to ponder on...


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On 9/25/03 2:22 AM, in article [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Mike"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I started with one of the "Big 6" 5 years ago as a management
> consultant.
> 
> I was on a project doing SAP (technical) for 3 years.
> 
> Then I did 'busy' work for a year while unassigned.
> 
> Now for the past year I am working with another technology.  (Siebel)
> 
> So I am not sure where to go from here...let me explain.
> 
> I did SAP for 3 years, but have not touched it for 2, so I lost a lot
> of knowledge.  Now I have only done Siebel for about a year, so my
> knowledge isnt that great.
> 
> If I look for another job, then the employers will look at my resume
> and think "This guy has worked for 5 years, he must be a super guru"
> but in reality thats not the case.
> 
> I have the SAP knowledge of someone who has worked with it for 3
> years, and the Siebel knowledge of someone who has worked for 1 year,
> so Im still a novice in both technologies.
> 
> So I am screwed if I try to find another job?
> 
> Thank you