The IT Career Builder’s Toolkit

Chapter 18. The Toolkit Approach to Consulting

Selling Your Time And Talent

Consulting has become one of the most popular options available to the technology professional. As the economy fluctuates and companies look to mitigate long-term costs (read full-time employees), opportunities will abound for astute professionals to sell their talent on an as-needed basis.

This chapter offers some simple, yet effective advice on how to make the transition to consultant/contractor. In addition, this chapter identifies and explains some resources to assist the consultant.

In this chapter, I speak of the consultant in the framework of the independent, self-employed individual. Staff consultants, those who are employed by technology companies, are no less consultants, ...