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3 edits | said by hayabusa3303:IMO: consultants should all goto hell when it comes to business. CEO love to use them and they are a waste or better yet you get axed because of a consultant think your job its needed anymore. One more job well done by CEO and consultants Speaking as an IT Cisco Infrastructure consultant (never worked for SunRocket, however did use their service) we (consultants) are NOT out to get your job.
Typically, we're hired for several reasons:
1. To ramp up staff on a big project, so once the project has ended they don't have to hire/fire salaried employees which brings down morale, costs in benefits, costs in unemployment insurance, etc.
2. Depending on the cost center for a project 'real-metrics' may be needed as their billing other business units and for that reason it may be in their best interest to hire a paid contractor/vendor/consultant to implement said project.
3. If the skills that are needed for deployment are above the skills that you have currently in-house and the time constraints don't allow for sending a salaried employee out for training, then you'd use a consultant for that specific skill set.
4. Some consultants are hired for are very tedious tasks (like documentation, automation scripts, etc.) that not many FTE's inside the company want to be in-charge of, or have time to work on. Hence they hire a consultant for a few months to get a hold on some work that has been put on the back burner, so to speak.
I don't understand the sheer distrust towards contracted consultants. A lot of us have been in the industry a long time and are paid for specific knowledge that companies may not need in-house always.
Personally, I like the fact that I don't have to deal with the office politics as much. I tend to stick up for "best-practices" and don't make a very good cog/sheep.
If management brings in consultants for the wrong projects, wrong framework, wrong consultants (not everyone is good)... this again, is a MANAGEMENT issue. They didn't manage their vendor.
P.S. Sorry for taking the thread off-topic, but I just had to rant. |
