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To quote from Wikipedia ;P

“A consultant (from the Latin consultare means “to discuss” from which we also derive words such as consul and counsel) is a professional who provides advice in a particular area of expertise such as accountancy, the environment, entertainment, technology, law (tax law, in particular), human resources, marketing, medicine, finance, economics, public affairs, communication, engineering, sound system design, graphic design, or waste management.”

Definition from Dictionary.com

“con·sul·tant

(kən-sŭl’tənt)  n.

One who gives expert or professional advice.

1. One who consults another.

con·sul’tant·ship’ n.

consultant job
A person who facilitates organisational change and/or provides subject matter expertise on technical, functional and business topics during development or implementation. Consultants perform business requirements analysis, recommends selection of packaged software, develop proposals for consulting services and manage implementation projects at client sites. They provides expert knowledge of products such as SAP R/3, PeopleSoft, HRMS/Financials, and SmartStream.
(2004-03-09)

Sorry for the copy and paste items from these sites. To be honest, I’m getting tired, fed up, amazed of these so called consultants who failed to understand that their job is to consult where in order to consult you need to have some degree of knowledge/skills or experience on that particular field. A general overview knowledge for me is sufficient enuff as long as you can consult, advice, discuss with the person who seek for this consultation.

Let say you’re in a meeting where this company is doing some presentation on their software performance testing product. Of cause that will be presented by the Senior Consultant of that particular product. During the Q&A session when you ask the CONsultant whether he/she ever heard about any similar product like HP’s Load Runner and he/she replied, “Never heard of it” (I believe when ever you develop an product/software, of cause you will try to find if there’s any similar product exists in the market or at least you try to benchmark your software or product against the well known ones. Agree?)

OR when you ask about the effectiveness and the robustness of the product and the CONsultant just replied,

“ We’ve done the testing obviously”

“How many times did you perform the testing?”

“Just once.”

Cool eh? And when the Senior CONsultant seems to stumble, stuttered and sometimes took a quite some time to answer some basic or common questions about his or her product, are you convinced enuff to buy from this particular company?

I believe consultants also need to have good communications and presentation skills as most of the times the consultation will be done in face to face manner either in unicast, multicast or broadcast type of communication

How do you feel when the moment you give your web application source codes to this Consultant for review, the only reply that you get is

“Your code is too complex.”

“What should I do then?”

“I don’t know.”

Especially when this type of replies are from Special Consultant. Yeah Special CONsultant that is

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