Abstract
When Mary Funke, head of ACS Career Services, began looking at the numbers for the 1995 Salary & Employment Comprehensive Survey, she found something unexpected. Approximately 27,000 ACS members appear to be engaged in some kind of consulting work, she says, a number as large as the membership of some ACS divisions. The numbers aren't exact, Funke says. She and ACS members interested in the consulting phenomenon are working from data supplied by 53,000 ACS members— about one-third of the total regular membership—who responded to the 1995 survey. Of that number, 9,174 members indicated that consulting work is at least part of their professional life. Estimating from the one-third total response, 27,000 members do some amount of consulting work. This is benchmark data, Funke says of the survey results. We want to ask more refined questions in future surveys. The point is, there is a large contingent out there doing ...
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