-: I know that this is probably the answer you hear a lot,
but it's the fact that you get to learn so much.
Because I'm at a smaller firm,
we really get to do a little bit of everything.
So I've heard that at some firms
you might only be doing sourcing and interviewing
of people for your first year.
You don't even get to speak to a client
until you're three, four, or five.
I got to speak to the client on my first case.
So I think that being able to be in that client-facing role
is incredibly valuable.
But then in addition to that,
and I think this also has to do with my background,
getting to be able to see how all of this ties together
from a business perspective is fascinating to me.
I think the hardest part of the job is time management.
A lot of the roles of the job
are not necessarily fixed-interval tasks
where you know, okay, I need to do this
for a set number of hours, and I'm going to get what I want.
There are times where, for example, on my first case
in order to find those 25 interviewees
I had to reach out to over 1,000 people.
I think it was actually closer to 2,000.
And I would have never expected that.
I was told expect maybe a 5% hit rate.
And instead, my hit rate was almost 1%.
So I think just being able to accommodate for that
and understanding that, sometimes,
in order to get the high quality output expected of you
at your job, you have to be okay
with understanding, all right,
well I hope it takes this much time,
but I need to budget more time,
because if things start to slip,
we don't want the entire project to come to a halt
because of one bottleneck.