Considering a Consulting Career?

Wednesday January 7th the U.S. Politics and the World class met with four consultants: Karsten Thot (business manager for Dexis), Lauren E. Hoy (consultant for Deloitte), Anushree Banerjee (consultant for Booz Allen), and Shannon Bryan (works for SAIC in Security Assistance Policy). As a public policy major, consulting is a career that potentially makes sense after graduation because consulting is so broad, has a variety of different paths, and provides skills and experience that can be applicable for an array of avenues. All consultants we met with worked for different companies and had different stories as to why/how they got into the consulting world, but they all agreed that consulting is a great path to take for students who are not sure of exactly what they want to pursue as a career after graduation.

The most interesting part about our consultants panel was learning about some of the details and intricacies of a consulting career. As someone who knows people are consultants, it always seemed like such an undefinable career with no real, clear definition of what it meant. However, after meeting with the panel, I had a much better picture of what consulting entails. Being a consultant can mean working specifically for/alongside the health care industry, foreign policy, national politics, and the list goes on.  I am certain that the U.S. Politics class left with a much better definition of a consulting career and whether or not that was something to consider pursing.