What do consultants do? I seriously don’t understand what they are especially since you can be a consultant in a completely different field than another consultant? What are you actually doing?

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What background or degree/if at all do you need to be one?

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Generally speaking, consultants have a very specific set of knowledge and experience in SOMETHING, and it’s something a company might need at a very critical and pivotal point in its development but might not need it long term enough to justify hiring someone to maintain the availability of that skill set long term.

A company may be looking to expand operations, and might need to know the most cost effective way to do that. So they might temporarily employ a consultant who knows a lot about that particular industry and the best practices to do so. They aren’t hiring this person on a permanent basis because they only need that particular knowledge base for a particular period of time, thus not justifying doing a permanent hiring. So the consultant is brought in, advises the company on whatever that consultant is particularly knowledgeable and skilled about, and then the project ends and the consultant moves on.