A Day in the Life of a Consultant at Media Consulting Company
Aisha's workday as a consultant involves a mix of independent work and collaboration, beginning with checking overnight updates and resuming unfinished tasks like "modeling or scheduling" before team check-ins and ad-hoc meetings. A significant portion of the day centers on creating slide decks for client deliverables, involving iterative revisions based on partner and client feedback, with a typical workday concluding around 6:30-7:00 PM.
Project Management, Communication, Data Analysis, Teamwork, Problem-Solving
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Aisha Han
Consultant
Media Consulting Company
Carnegie Mellon University
MBA
Economics, International Relations & Affairs
Arts, Entertainment & Media, Consulting & Related Professional Services
Consulting
Honors Student, Scholarship Recipient, Immigrant
Video Highlights
1. Aisha's workday starts with checking emails and overnight updates, highlighting the importance of responsiveness and proactive communication in consulting.
2. A significant portion of her day involves creating presentations and slide decks, demonstrating the importance of visual communication and client deliverables in this field.
3. She emphasizes the collaborative nature of her work, including daily team check-ins and ad-hoc meetings, underscoring teamwork and communication as crucial aspects of the job.
Transcript
What does a day in the life in your role look like?
In a consultant's life at Almonds Online, a lot of it involves sitting in front of the computer. I would log in around 8:30 AM, between 8:00 and 8:30, to check on everything that happened overnight. Usually, there's some kind of document sent to us around midnight or some update.
I would catch up on emails and those updates, and then start whatever work I didn't finish yesterday. This could be modeling, scheduling, or working on slides. We'd typically have a daily check-in with the team, and then ad hoc meetings with different team members depending on what was due or most pertinent at the time.
The daily check-ins served as a mood check and a way to figure out the status of all the work streams within the project. Then, you'd focus on your own work, have those ad hoc meetings, and take a lunch break at some point. You kind of do that for the rest of the day.
I'd say most of the day-to-day effort is focused on creating slides. These slides are deliverables for the client to review. When I mention recommendations, that end product is a slide deck. So, we work on different versions of that, have the partner review it, and the client bring back questions. We then answer those questions and update different iterations until the project is done.
On a regular day, I would log off around 6:30 or 7:00 PM and then do it all over again the next day.