Management Analyst and Consultant Career and Job Highlights

• Thirty percent of all management analysts are self-employed. This is about one and a half times the average for other management, business, and financial occupations.
  
• Within the private industry most positions require a master's degree as well as several additional years of specialized experience. A bachelor’s degree is often sufficient for entry-level government jobs.
  
• Intense competition is expected for jobs in this area despite a projected faster-than-average employment growth rate.

Management Consultant and Analyst Career and Job Description

New challenges continue to face the Nation's firms as business becomes progressively complex. Increasingly firms are relying more and more on management analysts to help them remain competitive in the midst of these changes. Often referred to as management consultants in the private industry, management analysts evaluate and propose various ways to improve an organization’s structure, efficiency, and/or profits. For example, a large company that has recently acquired a new division may choose to hire management analysts to help reorganize the corporate structure and eliminate duplicate or nonessential jobs. Management analysts have been afforded new opportunities in recent years through the advancement of information technology and electronic commerce. Companies are now hiring consultants to develop various strategies for entering into and remaining competitive in the new electronic marketplace.