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This is an ideal career for visionary thinkers. As a management consultant, you provide companies with strategic solutions to business, organisational, or industry-specific problems. You analyse and evaluate the key strategies, people, technical systems and operating procedural workings of a corporation.

Salary p/a
40k - 500k

Qualifications
Degree

Intensity
Sitting

Demand
Growing

Travel
High

Conditions
Indoor

Weekly Hours
50-60

Pros

Range of challenging projects & recommendations
Highly paid, travel encouraged
Intellect in and around you

Cons

Recommendations, no decisions
High delivery expectation, time poor and stress
Difficulty establishing client base as a breakaway

The Bottom Line

Management consultant is a leading edge career. Highly paid, highly intellectual, high performance expectation, tackling either exciting opportunities or derailed projects and businesses. The entire process is interesting and challenging and no two corporate situations are alike. It is a respected occupation, but with high burn out potential.

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