Build a Moat Around Your Career
Build your career moat with rare skill stacks, a visible reputation, wider networks and measurable wins.
The market is tough right now. Benches are deeper, panels are tighter, and clients are questioning every dollar of consulting spend and most firms are not hiring to a bench. If you are waiting for the "safe gig", I have news: it is not coming back any time soon. Security no longer comes with the employment contract. You have to build it yourself.
Warren Buffett refuses to invest in a company unless it has an economic moat, a defensible advantage competitors cannot easily cross. Castles had them for good reason. Your career deserves one too. A career moat is the set of advantages that keeps you valuable no matter whose logo is on your lanyard, and no matter which way the market turns.
I have written before about finding your consulting superpower, that rare thing you do better than most. Think of your superpower as the castle. The moat is what you dig around it. Here are four shovels.
