Now that you’re settled into your new role, it’s time to focus on your first important tasks to ensure your success on this project and increase your chances of being kept on or hired again. Effectively completing one or more project-critical tasks, ensuring your manager’s expectations are met, and building lasting relationships with the key players in your environment will get your career off to a strong start. Prove yourself and put your manager at ease Hiring managers do their best to … [Read more...]
What to expect and how to get started…
All of your success has led up to this moment: your first day as a consultant on your first contract. Though this can be a stressful time, if you’ve followed the steps in this guide, all of your careful planning will help you make these first few days go smoothly. Get comfortable in your new role It sounds obvious, but I can’t stress enough the importance of arriving early on your first day. There’s no excuse for being late, and getting off on the right foot will go a long way toward … [Read more...]
Prepare For Transition Into Your New Role…
You’ve completed the interview process and accepted an offer, so how will you transition smoothly into your new role? Giving adequate notice, tying up loose ends properly, and building your existing work relationships at your current job will ensure that you leave on a high note and build your reputation as a consultant. You can also use this time to gather the tools and information you need to start your new position successfully. Preparing to leave your current job The first step in your … [Read more...]
Consider and Accept an Offer
You’ve landed your first interview and performed brilliantly enough throughout the interview process to secure your first offer—congratulations! Before moving ahead and automatically accepting the offer, take a moment to consider the offer carefully to be sure the contract is really a good fit. If you do decide to move forward, it’s equally important to understand the contract specifics and negotiate if you find anything missing or unclear. This way you’ll move into your new position on the … [Read more...]
Prepare and Conduct a Winning Interview
All of your planning and groundwork so far has led you to this point: landing the interview for this consulting role, and winning the contract during your interview. Making sure you’re 100% prepared is the absolute key to conducting a successful interview, so it’s important to find and use all of your available resources to gather information and develop a winning interview strategy. If you’ve prepared yourself fully you should have no problem presenting your experience and assets clearly, and … [Read more...]
Oracle Consultant Knowledge – Technical Knowledge
As mentioned earlier project teams hire consultants of two types 1. Functional consultants/Business Analysts (B.A.’s) 2. Technical Consultants Functional Consultants gather and analyze the requirements, design, configure & test the solution, and support the business once the project has gone live. Technical Consultants allow the project to implement customized functionality. Hybrid Consultants have attributes of a typical functional and technical consultant. The following diagrams … [Read more...]
Oracle Consultant Knowledge – Functional Knowledge
As mentioned earlier project teams hire consultants of two types 1. Functional consultants/Business Analysts (B.A.’s) 2. Technical Consultants Functional Consultants gather and analyze the requirements, design, configure & test the solution, and support the business once the project has gone live. Technical Consultants allow the project to implement customized functionality. Hybrid Consultants have attributes of a typical functional and technical consultant. The following … [Read more...]
Know What You Know – Oracle Project Skills
“Know what you know” means being able to clearly define and communicate exactly what your skills and talents are in non-technical terms, and being able to communicate how you’ll apply those skills to complete the project objectives. You also need to communicate honestly about necessary or useful skills you may not yet have mastered. Though it sounds simple, this process can be challenging and many consultants miss opportunities because they fail to express what they know and why their … [Read more...]
How to Identify and Map Current Technical, Support or Business skills into the Oracle Functional role
Let’s talk about functional consulting. I’m going to introduce you to two new tools, one about the project lifecycle and one called the functional quadrant. What these two tools do for you is that they give you an idea of what a functional consultant does, they allow you to figure out, well, can I actually do any of the functional tasks already, they are going to give you confidence to approach job descriptions, recruiters, and hiring managers with a little bit more idea of what you’re … [Read more...]
Support Roadmap into Functional Consultant
Let’s talk about transferring into functional from the support consulting world. What does a Functional Consultant do anyway? The key skills are Objectives, Requirements, Design, Build, Test, and Transition, from an e-Business project point of view these are also the 6 key phases of an e-Business project. So where support comes in is the post go-live phase or the business as usual activity phase. You might do your objectives in January, your requirements in February and March. Design in … [Read more...]
