Uncovering all the good the bad that consultants experienced during the pandemic and what are the Coronavirus impacts for consulting in 2023.
When Shakespeare was in quarantine, he wrote King Lear. When Isaac Newton was in quarantine he discovered gravity. What will consultants be doing with their time cooped-up during the Coronavirus?
Consultants like to solve problems but at the moment they do not have many. Their creativity and dynamism will be idle and itching to engage with a project. This means that for the first time in a long time, many consultants will have time to relax.
It is in this time that entrepreneurs often come up with ideas. In addition to their half-hearted work-from-home time, consultants will be up to no good with their own projects.
Coronavirus Impacts for Consulting 2023: The Rise of Exit Strategies
As a result, consultants, many of whom want to start their own businesses anyway, will be putting their mind to work. Those who haven’t started podcasts and blogs (!) will be building up their exit strategies for when the commercial world resumes. When this self-isolation period is over, it is likely that lots of them will not be returning to their previous employers. Remember, you are not wrong to be considering your exit options while still working for your employer!
Networking in Isolation and Finding Opportunities
In addition, a career in consulting builds you a huge network. Consultants rarely have the chance to exploit this because they are usually assigned tasks, as opposed to choosing them. This is a period in which they can explore this network and find the opportunities and chances for collaboration that might be out there. The business networking site Fishbowl is just one example of this phenomenon going mad.
The Shift in Career Guilt During Work-From-Home Culture
Even undergraduate offer holders are looking to network their way into more secure jobs. That being said, they are doing this because of the new opportunities, but because their existing jobs don’t seem to exist anymore!
Finally and perhaps most importantly, being at home makes it feel like you aren’t working. You forget you work for a company and you may well be unsure whether your job will actually still exist in 2021. Consultants will feel far less guilty about surveying the job market in the midst of the coronavirus. All in all, it would take a fool to sit back and wait for your career to resume where you left off!
