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The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is a global management consulting firm and the world’s leading advisor on business strategy. We partner with clients from the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors in all regions to identify their highest-value opportunities, address their most critical challenges, and transform their enterprises. Our customized approach combines deep insight into the dynamics of companies and markets with close collaboration at all levels of the client organization. This ensures that our clients achieve sustainable competitive advantage, build more capable organizations, and secure lasting results. Founded in 1963, BCG is a private company with offices in more than 90 cities in 50 countries. For more information, please visit bcg.com.
BCG’s clients are the world’s top business leaders. From computers to retailing, our professional expertise spans over 50 industries. The vast majority of our clients rank among the 500 largest companies in each of our three major regions–Americas (North and South), Europe Middle East and Africa, and Asia Pacific. Additionally, we work with a number of small- to medium-sized companies, both public and private.
The success of our assignments routinely leads our clients to maintain long-term relationships with us. Over 85 percent of our revenues come from clients who continue to work with us from one year to the next to maintain the momentum for change and to continually improve bottom-line results they have achieved with our help.
We pride ourselves on our fresh thinking. Our evolving ideas profoundly change the way most businesses think about competition. Many leading business concepts over the past three decades originated with BCG– including, experience curve, time-based competition, Segment-of-One® marketing, deconstruction, and trading up. Our recent Collateral Damage publication series has addressed the implications for managers of the on-going financial crisis.
We believe that no other consulting organization has concentrated as thoroughly on understanding business competition and helping companies make the changes necessary to succeed in increasingly competitive markets.
Location of Offices: 90 cities around the world
Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Athens, Atlanta, Auckland, Bangkok, Barcelona, Beijing, Berlin, Bogota, Boston, Brussels, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Calgary, Canberra, Casablanca, Chennai, Chicago, Cologne, Copenhagen, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hamburg, Helsinki, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Houston, Istanbul, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Kiev, Kuala Lumpur, Lagos, Lima, Lisbon, London, Los Angeles, Luanda, Madrid, Melbourne, Mexico City, Miami, Milan, Minneapolis, Monterrey, Montreal, Moscow, Mumbai, Munich, Nagoya, New Delhi, New Jersey, New York, Oslo, Paris, Perth, Philadelphia, Prague, Rome, Riyadh, San Francisco, Santiago, São Paulo, Seattle, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Sydney, Taipei, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Toronto, Vienna, Warsaw, Washington D.C., Zürich
Total Number of Consultants Worldwide: Over 11,000
The Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable.
SUMMER ASSOCIATE JOB DESCRIPTION
The Boston Consulting Group offers you an unparalleled opportunity for both personal and professional growth and development. No two experiences are alike and the skills you acquire will position you for success within and outside of BCG.
BCG is staffed by consultants who combine industry experience with acute strategic and analytical skills. They come from a variety of backgrounds, reflecting the diversity of perspective we value. Most assignments involve one or more teams of three to six BCGers; specifically, the typical BCG team is made up of one to two partners, a project manager, and several consultants/associates who work with a similar group of client staff. The standard team combines consultants with relevant technical and industry backgrounds with others who have functional and strategic skills. We also strive to incorporate a mix of seniority and skills to balance the capabilities needed for the project with a sound budget plan. We create value by customizing our approach to complement client capabilities and the issues at hand.
We believe consulting is a process, not a product. Our goal is to guide, develop, facilitate, and enrich each client's strategy development process. Our consulting practice depends on close teamwork between the client's organization and our staff. Clients often remark that a valuable and unusual aspect of working with BCG is the firm's commitment to joint discovery of insights and strategies, and to building the experience base and skills of its client's organization. Team interaction centers on intensive analysis of objective data and open discussion of logic and conclusions. This type of collaborative work is complemented by objective research of the competitive environment, including competitor analysis and capability benchmarking.
Our teams work with client members from all levels of the organization in order to integrate our staff's strategy, operational, and industry experience with the client's knowledge of its particular situation, culture, and constraints. To ensure follow-through by a client, we find it vital to closely link BCG's senior managers with the highest level of the client's organization responsible for acting on the outcomes of our involvement.
Individual assignments can last anywhere from two to twelve months or more, depending on the complexity of the challenges and the client's needs. We usually break each project into modular phases so that our clients see results well before the engagement's end. Assignments normally proceed through three stages over a period of several months: 1) identifying and analyzing opportunities for change and laying out different options for senior management to consider, 2) fleshing out the best options in order to create detailed action plans, and 3) assisting in execution. We believe that working with a client until results are assured is vital to their success.
THE RECRUITING PROCESS
We seek people with drive, energy, first-rate minds, and ability to lead and persuade. In selecting people to join the firm, we carry out an intensive interviewing process. Candidates should demonstrate success in their academic and extracurricular activities, whether that be through volunteer work, professional experiences, or through personal initiatives. We seek people with drive, creativity, first rate minds, and an ability to lead. Compensation for consultants entering the firm is extremely competitive and grows rapidly with strong performance.
APPLICATION PROCESS
Eligibility
We are interested in meeting Graduate Students (PhD, JD & MD) scheduled to graduate in 2020 (Dec-2019 to July-2020). Candidates should demonstrate success in their academic and extra-curricular activities, whether that be through volunteer work, professional internships, or through personal initiatives. We seek people with drive, creativity, intelligence, and an ability to lead.
Application Deadline
The deadline for Summer Consultant applications is Sunday, December 9, 2018 at 5:00pm.
How to Apply
Candidates interested in applying must submit an application including a cover letter, résumé and most recent unofficial transcript. You can address your application to Reema Castelino, Talent Acquisition Manager.
Please click here to complete your online application.
Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application or interview process, or those needing job postings in an alternative format, may contact AODAenquiries@bcg.com
HELPFUL HINTS
It is never too early to start preparing! To help you prepare for our interview process, we offer practice cases on our website – feel free to review these cases here: http://www.bcg.com/join_bcg/practice_cases/default.aspx
It is also helpful for you understand the kind of work we do for our clients. Aside from our corporate website, please visit the BCG Perspectives website to learn about the breadth of work we do: https://www.bcgperspectives.com/
Thank you for your interest and best of luck!