Who are consultants?

Question

Career in IT

Often, in books devoted to programming, on the page “about the author”, in the section “professional activity”, it is indicated as a position - it consultant. Who are consultants? And what exactly do they do?

Answer 1

Once this screenshot of the site was already on Habré, they even created a whole post about it:

Answer 2

You automatically become an IT consultant by successfully answering 5-10 questions from your acquaintances who want to develop their business on the Internet.
Further, according to the possibilities, you can provide applied services - design, hosting, marketing, and so on.
Consulting is always a fairly effective method of obtaining clients. Having provided a high-quality, maximum impartial and free service of informing a person about the methods of promoting your business on the Internet or about the introduction of modern information and software tools and technologies, you can get a partner, client or the same useful informant about other aspects of the business :)

Answer 3

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology_consulting

Answer 4

Hmm, it says in my contract that I'm a consultant :) Rather, it's just a specialist with knowledge from different areas.

Answer 5

As an option - a person who basically works on temporary contracts with hourly / piecework pay.

Answer 6

An IT consultant is a person who has deep knowledge in a certain area and can CLEARLY explain something from this area to strangers. You may be charged for this.

Answer 7

Where are consultants hired? I love to advise