IT Consultant
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until AI starts replacing people in this job
Mar 8, 2029 · 873 days left
Consulting firms are hiring fewer new grads because AI already writes up the requirements and configures the software. Veterans who hold the trust of client executives stay.
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AI impact · ShrinkingIT Consultant: what AI changes and what stays
A consultant sits in a workshop where each department is quietly protecting its own turf, trying to get people to say what they actually need instead of what makes them look good, then later traces a failed rollout back to an internal turf war, not the software. AI already writes the technical deliverables.
What consulting work does AI already do directly?
Writing a requirements document, designing a standard process, and configuring common software setups are all things AI can already do directly from a description, work that used to take a junior consultant months to learn by doing. That has already cut deep into the entry-level technical side of the job.
What still needs a person in the room?
Winning the trust of client executives who are wary of outsiders, figuring out that a failed rollout actually failed because of internal politics rather than the tool, and running a workshop where people are quietly protecting themselves all need someone who can read a room, not a document.
How does someone build toward this kind of work now?
A business or information-systems background plus an early role still helps, but since the entry-level technical work has shrunk, getting in front of real client stakeholders as early as possible matters more than it used to. Practicing how to read organizational politics is the skill that actually carries a career here.
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