Professionals who use professional knowledge, skills and experience to help individuals or organizations solve problems or provide solutions through consulting techniques and methods. Such as psychological counselors, job seekers, management consultants, marketing consultants, strategic consultants, etc.
What is consultation? The word "consultation" means consulting, inquiring, planning and soliciting opinions in Chinese. At first, consultation and inquiry were two words, information desk and information desk. The word "consultation" was first found in the Book of Songs, and there is a poem "riding fast, loving consultation in a week", which means that the monarch condemns the envoys and asks them to visit the people's sufferings carefully to show the world.
In ancient times, counselors, parliamentarians, military advisers and diners who made suggestions for rulers were all people who specialized in consulting activities. Of course, China's ancient consulting activities and his understanding of the word "consulting" were random and random, which was different from modern consulting activities.
In English, the corresponding verbs are verb consult and noun consult. French is consultoant, which comes from Latin consult, meaning consultation, evaluation, diagnosis, understanding opinions, etc.
There are also foreign scholars who call consultation a kind of "intervention" and "intervention" from the perspective of behavior. In Japan, people call consultation "diagnosis".
1972 The Oxford Dictionary published in Britain defines a consultant as "a person who is capable of providing professional advice and services." The book Consulting Engineer published by the United States 1982 defines engineers engaged in engineering consulting as: "Consulting engineers are independent professional engineers who provide professional engineering services to customers on a fee basis", and "they sell services, knowledge and judgment".
As an intelligence-intensive knowledge service industry, consulting in the modern sense refers to the specialized skills from external individuals and organizations. Based on professional knowledge, information and experience, it provides solutions or decision-making suggestions for different users' needs.