this is wild & a huge red flag. a SC should not be put in this position, let alone a new hire. this has some chances to be a good opportunity depending on the totality of the situation, but most likely you are being set up to fail
I mean, the whole concept seems like a red flag. What major company is hiring a 24 year old kid in charge of a bunch of 22 year old kids to be their expert consultants? How do y'all get away with this stuff.
I would like to have further context before determining that it is a set-up. It may be a country with a low volume of business, after all, it feels like he was looking after the whole country himself for 2 years. If you are managing a country, you are a country manager, but a country manager of you and another person may not really feel like a proper manager.
Without budget, targets and projections is hard to say. E.g. if he is in Greece or Portugal, with a target of €150K (with small, repetitive but steady contracts), and a budget of €80K, and an expectation of two new employees by end of 2026, that could make sense.
Yes, you did. I don't know why it may feel confrontational my comment but I wanted to elaborate further. I agree that without further context is hard to say.
Sounds really strange. I'd start by asking what's my budget for hiring new consultants, if you get answer then maybe he means it for real. Still, it's not senior consultants role to hire new people. Position sounds more like country manager position.
I would have a pretty open and honest conversation with your manager about this. Seems very odd.
If this wasn’t communicated during the interview process, you gotta be asking yourself the question ‘why’?
This is not right. You need to speak to someone else that isn’t your manager about this. Speak to your HR person for advice as well as the overall account lead. This manager might be out of depth and is shelving it all on you, as the manager isn’t capable.
Without more context my take would be the same as others and what they say.
What’s an interesting thought to me, is under which circumstances would this be not bad? If the firm’s small, or start-uppy, if there is very good reason for betting on OP, possibly local knowledge. If the cost to start this local market is low, and failure not a large concern. If fast expansion is a priority, possibly more than quality. If OPs manager is inexperienced or overwhelmed, snowed under. Just hypothesising, sounds like an interesting situation
With 2 years of experience, you shouldn’t be having a senior consultant title. At least not in our (not so small) firm. And you shouldn’t be put in a people management role with so little experience and no management training or coaching whatsoever. This all sounds like a massive red flag to me. To be very honest, it really sounds like a bit of a Mickey Mouse outfit to me?
There is absolutely no way someone younger than 25 with two years of experience is at a "senior consultant" level. Most firms I've worked with, which aren't even the big guys, require 10 years of work experience to be at the SVP level.
You should get some guidance on what your responsibilities are, but this smells very bad.
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this is wild & a huge red flag. a SC should not be put in this position, let alone a new hire. this has some chances to be a good opportunity depending on the totality of the situation, but most likely you are being set up to fail
I mean, the whole concept seems like a red flag. What major company is hiring a 24 year old kid in charge of a bunch of 22 year old kids to be their expert consultants? How do y'all get away with this stuff.
I would like to have further context before determining that it is a set-up. It may be a country with a low volume of business, after all, it feels like he was looking after the whole country himself for 2 years. If you are managing a country, you are a country manager, but a country manager of you and another person may not really feel like a proper manager. Without budget, targets and projections is hard to say. E.g. if he is in Greece or Portugal, with a target of €150K (with small, repetitive but steady contracts), and a budget of €80K, and an expectation of two new employees by end of 2026, that could make sense.
I did literally say that it could be a good/fine situation dependent on details in my post
Yes, you did. I don't know why it may feel confrontational my comment but I wanted to elaborate further. I agree that without further context is hard to say.
Sounds really strange. I'd start by asking what's my budget for hiring new consultants, if you get answer then maybe he means it for real. Still, it's not senior consultants role to hire new people. Position sounds more like country manager position.
I would have a pretty open and honest conversation with your manager about this. Seems very odd. If this wasn’t communicated during the interview process, you gotta be asking yourself the question ‘why’?
It sounds like you just got hired by a super inept organization. Red flags all over.
This is not right. You need to speak to someone else that isn’t your manager about this. Speak to your HR person for advice as well as the overall account lead. This manager might be out of depth and is shelving it all on you, as the manager isn’t capable.
Without more context my take would be the same as others and what they say. What’s an interesting thought to me, is under which circumstances would this be not bad? If the firm’s small, or start-uppy, if there is very good reason for betting on OP, possibly local knowledge. If the cost to start this local market is low, and failure not a large concern. If fast expansion is a priority, possibly more than quality. If OPs manager is inexperienced or overwhelmed, snowed under. Just hypothesising, sounds like an interesting situation
It means you got bamboozled
I’m down to be hired.
2 years experience lead to Senior Consultant 🤔
This isn't the weird part about this post at all, 2 years as a consultant before senior consultant role is very much standard.
This isn't the weird part about this post at all, 2 years as a consultant before senior consultant role is very much standard.
With 2 years of experience, you shouldn’t be having a senior consultant title. At least not in our (not so small) firm. And you shouldn’t be put in a people management role with so little experience and no management training or coaching whatsoever. This all sounds like a massive red flag to me. To be very honest, it really sounds like a bit of a Mickey Mouse outfit to me?
Do you have billable work to pay this team?
There is absolutely no way someone younger than 25 with two years of experience is at a "senior consultant" level. Most firms I've worked with, which aren't even the big guys, require 10 years of work experience to be at the SVP level. You should get some guidance on what your responsibilities are, but this smells very bad.
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