Unique Opportunity for Holistic development of all Analysts - Researcher Wikistrat Employee Review

5.0
18 Mar 2016
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Pros

Wikistrat, first crowdsourced consultancy all over the world in all global affairs that shape the trajectory of interconnected world in a highly relentless manner, has earned the recoginition of developing unique ways for building diversified insights over any global issue that has the tremendous potential in changing the contours of world whether it be in the realm of International Politics, Global Economy or in the field of high technological advancements that are continuously diminishing the natural borders among the states. Highly advanced and well configurated platform in the form of Web 2.0 which is being offered by Wikistrat is highly unique in many dimensions such as, it offers a unique opportunity which is constructive and progressive in its shades to all its analysts to build deep knowledge about all international affairs which affect the world in many ways. Moreover, it provides the way to have very constructive, progressive, collaborative, knowledge-sharing, and consequently knowledge enhancing numerous avenues to all its analytic members community by providing a forum on very crucial issues over which whether it be senior analysts or any person that lies at the entering point in this organisation namely, interns to deliberate equally with very positive, highly collaborative, and in all-learning attitude. I am feeling very positive and high enhancement in in my knowledge that I used to have prior joining to the Wikistrat. In addition to provide the cooperative and knowledge sharing environment, Wikistrat offers highly unique benefits to all its analytic member community. These are the benefits that no analysts will get in other consultancy firms which are currently running on traditional business models in a very high technologically advanced atmosphere. First, it offers the access to all its members irrespective to his/her ranks for building healthy and progressive dialogue with world's top analysts in all sphere, diplomats in many countries including UN, high ranking military officials that has very diversified field and head quarter experiences, legal experts, and Media experts. Second, Wikistrat offers analysts who prove their worth by offering unique ideas, good analysis on the regular basis and in a sincere manner intellectual recoginition to satisfy their feeling of self-actualisation, and monetary awards for honoring thier invaluable services. Above all, Wikistrat also offers very unique opportunities to its analytic members for building its network by giving a chance to experienced analysts for recruiting other prospective analysts.

Cons

In my case, there is no negative point at all that is to be countable for mentioning here. I firmly believe the performance of member is the main deciding factor for his overall career advancement.

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5.0
27 Dec 2016
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Pros

Great community of analysts. Good networking opportunities

Cons

No pay. Large community makes it difficult to get contributions noticed

2.0
27 Sept 2015
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Pros

Very interesting platform and project dynamics. This Virtual Organization relies heavily on self-regulation instead of constant supervision. Huge group of interesting perspectives and background contributing on a variety of projects. Pay is based on performance and was regular until suddenly dropping. Great opportunity to network and interface with other people who are interested in the field both professional and some who might better be qualified as hobbyists.

Cons

Ideas of hobbyists and professionals are largely held on equal footing which seems to lead to a lot of burnout where experts get tired of debunking wild ideas. Similarly bad is that some projects ran by a few members are heavily biased towards their own preconceptions of the topic at hand. Pay suddenly dropped despite increased projects, rumor has it that most of them aren't actually for a specific client but to be used for pitching potential clients. Full time staff are a total mess, I've been contacted a few times to schedule a meeting but then it's forgotten about and follow up emails are ignored. Similarly, I started randomly getting the equivalent of "professional spam" from their HR and project leaders about paying projects that don't pay or recommending random fellowships and positions of which Wikistrat isn't actually involved in the recruitment process. More and more project "scenarios" seem to be derived mostly from random hypotheticals not based on data or an individual's professional experience. The "internal wiki" is largely defunct nor does the firm have any interest in compensating analysts for contributing to it.

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