Interview Preparation For Consultancy Job

Maybe start with a 400 mV substation, and work your way up from there.

plz, send me the name of 400mV substation...........................

lol. a 400mV substation..Never heard.. Tornado must be joking. Hi Lyn!

Don't get me wrong, but don't people call on consultants who are acknowledged experts in their field? Or is there some other kind of consultancy? Such experts are usually in their 40's at least ? Preferably even older, in the power segment. Software, banking, law... are another story.

Well if they are anything like the electrical consultants here they know the basics but end up calling people like me on the phone asking for more detailed knowledge, which they then include in their design for the project, which you are paying for by the way, and then charge you for it.

Alternatively they get it completely wrong and you then spend your time writing reports trying to explain to them and the client exactly why their solution won't work.

Has happened on more than one occasion and is quite annoying because I am not the highly paid expert, they are supposed to be!

kvsridhar is right. There is no substitute for experience. You cannot be magically infused with the knowledge and experience of 20 years on the job. No one can give you experience, it must be earned over time. _{Feel free to quote me.}

On another thread, there was this discussion about 'gut feeling' ... most posters felt that this was based on years and decades of experience which became a sub-liminal feeling.... so, you are quite right that there is no substitute for experience.

There is another school of thought. One young whippersnapper told me that this 'experience' business is overrated. It is actually a bias ! which prevents new thoughts being encouraged. Encouraged ? They are actually shot down ! was his lament. Can't argue with that, maybe true sometime.

However, i pointed it out to this young man....there is no longer any Tesla, Einstein, Steinmetz, Edison, ... so come see me when someone makes a statement comparable to 'the earth is not flat, it is round'... then i will listen perhaps. Not when teams of engineers with no individuality sprout inanities....with an eye on Wall street and not on the Patent office.

Yap, I guess I really have to agree with you and Lyn, only if experiences are intertwined with theories and the fundamentals.

It depends. Can you provide more information....

What university degrees do you have?

What practical experience do you have in either electrical engineering, substation engineering, project management, electrical consultancy, etc?

I have 2 years of substaion project experence in electrical engineering.

Excuse me for asking, but then why do your questions seem so naive? Maybe it has to do with the manner of expression.