I posted my my resume on some Japanese job search sites. A company called East West Consulting e-mailed and asked me if I was interested in becoming a consultant. I did some research and found out that basically I would help other big or small companies make business decision. But that seems like the small piece to the large puzzle. Would I have to go search for said clients or would the company just hand me a folder one day and say, "Hey Ramsey! See if you can help this company out." Anyways, I sent them an e-mail back and hopefully I'll hear something but I'm not ready to jump on board until I know what ship they're sailing.
Anybody have a friend in consulting?
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I was a consultant until recently. At least over here in the US, and especially in IT, consulting is quite common. The job as a consultant is to be brought into a company as a SME (Subject Matter Expert) and help the company. For example, I am a SME in Business Intelligence development. For the last few years, I went to various companies and help them design and implement a BI solution. Usually you work for another agency who finds the work for you. You don't have to, but the nice part of it is they will take care of your payroll (meaning taxes and such), help find you work, etc. So like in my field, they will typically take 30 to 50 dollars an hour off my billing rate for those services. You tend to make more than you would as a true emmployee, with the trade off being none or limited benefits, and periods of time in between jobs where you won't be earning money. At least that has been my experience. I loved it, and I'd still be doing it if we didn't have a baby and my wife wanted to stay home. I needed to roll over to a fulltime job for the benefits and somewhat more stable paycheck, though it is a bit less. All in the priorities.
Thanks that really cleared somethings up for me. I'm guessing because this company wants people who can speak English and Japanese that they want me as kind of the middle man to do International business. If that's true then this job could be fun.
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