Is it possible to get useful skills for an analyst while working in consulting?

Question

Analytics

I graduated from the institute, I want to get a job as a junior analyst. I would like to try myself in Big Data and Data Science, but there are very few vacancies for graduates without experience in this area.
Question: is it worth starting with consulting? Will this experience bring any useful knowledge? Or should consulting be avoided?

Answer 1

Hello. Something everyone bypasses the issue, as if some kind of consulting there.
Okay, jokes aside.
Consulting consulting - strife. There are people, for example, like McKinsey, they will gain useful experience, regardless of plans for the future. But I don't think it's about consulting. Some well-known " diagram " about who this very data "scientist"
is will help answer your question . Obviously, if there is no option to directly go to junior positions related to the topic, you need to choose a topic in consulting that will help you pump one of the basic skills.
In my opinion, in consulting, among such a good option is the introduction of a BI system. Here the understanding of databases, and SQL, and "analytics" are pumped over, and Python can be dragged in if desired, and it will be possible to touch big data, maybe.
Risk - get carried away, increase, it will not be easy to jump off. It will be necessary not only to work, but to simultaneously work out your "dream", you can understand for one thing that it was not such a dream.
But if we are talking about system or business analytics, which today is often the same thing (forgive me if I offended anyone), then endless collections and formalization of requirements, "modeling" business processes in various notations, use-case descriptions, etc. P. - all this is unlikely to bring you closer to good skills for data analysis.
In general, it would be good to immediately formulate the question more precisely. In this formulation, the answer is simple - yes. Because no effort is in vain. If you are lucky, then wherever you work, first of all you will improve the skill of the exact wording of questions, when there will be no answers after days, and when the wording itself will not imply further clarifications or unnecessary controversy.
Anyway - good luck!