Q. What job skills
do you have to contribute to your work?
A. You have to be very solid with the mathematics
and interest theory,
but more importantly, for a consultant, is that you need to have
communication skills. You’ve got to be able to communicate
with the clients orally, via email and over the phone. You have
to be able to
get the point across and explain very difficult topics sometimes.
Q. Are you involved
in any Watson Wyatt social activities?
A. The Minneapolis office has basketball leagues,
volleyball leagues, bowling leagues – tons of different activities
you can partake in if
you want to have those after-work social activities with your coworkers,
which is actually pretty fun because you develop friendships with
these people.
Q. What are your
goals for your career at Watson Wyatt?
A. I’ve been at Watson Wyatt for about three
years now, and I see
myself moving into a different practice here shortly – just
to gain more experience and see Watson Wyatt from a different angle.
I’d like to
do that maybe every three or four years just to gain all the experience
from all the different practices that Watson Wyatt has to offer.
And then,
maybe move into an account management position where you can
use all those different experiences together and manage a client
on a very broad scale.
Q. Why does your
particular career goal appeal to you?
A. Having the ability to switch practices is going
to be huge, because
you can build all of these different competencies from different
angles of Watson Wyatt in the human resources consulting area.
Watson Wyatt is in all of these different areas so we’ve got
tons of opportunities out there to see each [practice] firsthand.
To learn about and consult on such a broad range of topics really
motivates me.
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