here are a few things I experienced regularly as a consultant that would send regular people into a coma

Here are a few things I experienced regularly as a consultant that would send regular people into a coma. In no particular order, first we have two team check-ins per day, Monday through Friday. It's typically a 15 to 30 minute meeting where we talk through what we're working on in each of our work streams. Morning check-in is 8:30 or 9. Afternoon check-in is 4:30 or 5. And don't be fooled, after that second check-in, you will be assigned more work to last you throughout the evening. Second, we have an obsession with MBTI, which if you don't know, is the Myers-Briggs personality test. At my firm, they had everyone take the test during onboarding week, and whenever we would start a new project and introduce ourselves, we would literally say, hi, my name is Yassi, my MBTI is blah blah. Supposedly, knowing someone's MBTI helps you work better with them, and there most definitely are certain personality types that are more common amongst consultants. Guess what mine is. Third is extremely quick turnarounds. For example, if an expert interview ends at 10, by 11, you better have made at least one PowerPoint slide synthesizing all your findings. And I know for a fact from my experience now working in tech that a quick turnaround can be defined as three business days in other workplaces. Fourth, we had what were effectively internal interviews for every new project. This was probably unique to my firm where we had a culture of hustling and advocating for ourselves to get staffed, otherwise we would kind of be left behind. It can feel a little toxic and exhausting, but I did get used to it and it taught me the importance of knowing how to sell myself and ask for what I want. Number five, PowerPoint police. As consultants, our main deliverables to clients are PowerPoint slides, so it's understandable that they ran a very, very tight ship when it came to whatever goes onto the slide. And at first, I felt like it was too excessive and in particular, there are so many random little rules and best practices, but now as an ex-consultant, I am the PowerPoint police. I don't have really strict standards for other people's slides, but when I make slides, I still follow all the protocols that I learned as a consultant. Finally, no. 6 is booking flights day of. As a consultant who would travel every single week, Monday through Thursday to be on site with clients, I think I have a weird relationship with flights. I would often learn about getting staffed on projects Friday afternoon or early Monday morning and be asked to be in person 9:00am on Tuesdays, so I would just book flights depending on how my meetings shake out on Mondays. And obviously, I also mastered the skill of packing in under 10 minutes. That's basically it for this video. I hope you found it informational and entertaining and I'll see you in the next one. Bye.