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Five Years as a “Hired Gun”
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This chapter describes the for-profit evaluation consulting setting, including organizational structure, position responsibilities, and funding and project types. Generation of new business is the lifeblood of for-profit consulting firms, and the chapter overviews the business development process, including individual staff members’ responsibilities. Essential skills for working in this setting also are discussed. This chapter concludes with some of the benefits and challenges for a community psychologist working in this setting. Finally, the appendix contains a list of questions to ask when pursuing employment in a for-profit evaluation consulting setting.
Title: Five Years as a “Hired Gun”
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This chapter describes the for-profit evaluation consulting setting, including organizational structure, position responsibilities, and funding and project types.
Generation of new business is the lifeblood of for-profit consulting firms, and the chapter overviews the business development process, including individual staff members’ responsibilities.
Essential skills for working in this setting also are discussed.
This chapter concludes with some of the benefits and challenges for a community psychologist working in this setting.
Finally, the appendix contains a list of questions to ask when pursuing employment in a for-profit evaluation consulting setting.
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