
Yash Desai
Head of Data and AI at Movar Reply; AI engineer and data scientist specializing in project controls digital transformation.
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Jun 26, 2026
S10E220: Is Project Controls Behind on AI? | Yash Desai, Movar Reply
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29:50MartinHOST
But what are the kind of behavioral traits that you look for in people? And then probably following on from that, Is there a kind of consulting skills angle? So do you look for people who can ask a certain type of question or do you prefer to focus on the technical? Do you think the consulting side can be trained? So your thoughts.

Yash DesaiGUEST
I think in terms of skills, if I start with CVs, when I usually look at CVs, I try and ignore the skills section.

Yash DesaiGUEST
Because if I look at the skills section, it's a huge list of skills which we usually can't verify.

Yash DesaiGUEST
And at times, I've seen lots of CVs where I've seen skills which... later i find out that you know the candidate doesn't exhibit so one of the one of the things that i really look at is i look at the experience and i see how those skills have been used to solve problems for businesses and has this have those skills resulted in any positive outcomes for the business uh that that's one of the things i see but also like specifically in terms of trades i do look for proactivity and drive i think these two are probably one of the most important for me and my team I would rather have a person who is super proactive and less technical.

Yash DesaiGUEST
I think you can learn and you can improve if you have the productivity and if you have the drive within you.

Yash DesaiGUEST
In terms of the consultant sort of behaviors and skills, I still feel that if you are a good consultant, if you are able to understand business problems well, you have a much better chance of adapting to an industry that you've never heard of before.

Yash DesaiGUEST
So if you obviously have worked in the past and if you've tried to solve business problems in lots of different areas, the person obviously has to understand, the person needs to have some good research skills as well.
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