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<v ->I know that this is probably the answer you hear a lot,</v>

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but it's the fact that you get to learn so much.

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Because I'm at a smaller firm,

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we really get to do a little bit of everything.

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So I've heard that at some firms

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you might only be doing sourcing and interviewing

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of people for your first year.

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You don't even get to speak to a client

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until you're three, four, or five.

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I got to speak to the client on my first case.

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So I think that being able to be in that client-facing role

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is incredibly valuable.

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But then in addition to that,

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and I think this also has to do with my background,

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getting to be able to see how all of this ties together

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from a business perspective is fascinating to me.

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I think the hardest part of the job is time management.

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A lot of the roles of the job

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are not necessarily fixed-interval tasks

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where you know, okay, I need to do this

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for a set number of hours, and I'm going to get what I want.

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There are times where, for example, on my first case

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in order to find those 25 interviewees

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I had to reach out to over 1,000 people.

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I think it was actually closer to 2,000.

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And I would have never expected that.

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I was told expect maybe a 5% hit rate.

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And instead, my hit rate was almost 1%.

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So I think just being able to accommodate for that

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and understanding that, sometimes,

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in order to get the high quality output expected of you

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at your job, you have to be okay

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with understanding, all right,

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well I hope it takes this much time,

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but I need to budget more time,

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because if things start to slip,

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we don't want the entire project to come to a halt

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because of one bottleneck.