Consulting (Rolling Intake)

About Boston Consulting Group

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, they help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.

Your role

As a member of consulting team, you’ll work alongside some of the world’s top minds on cases that reshape business, government, and society.

• You’ll collaborate on challenging projects with team members from many backgrounds and disciplines, increasing your understanding of complex business problems from diverse perspectives and developing new skills and experience to help you at every stage of your career—at BCG and beyond.
• Consulting work is varied and rigorous, much of it performed at our client sites. Projects can vary in length, size, and location, depending on the client’s challenge. Because the clients operate all over the world, you may travel internationally. 

Your responsibilities

BCG is looking for a creative individual to join their team as a consultant with the following responsibilities ;

• If you are joining directly from school or with a few years of experience, expect to spend time working across a wide range of clients and projects from helping to devise the integration strategy for a pharmaceutical merger to developing sustainable farming practices in emerging countries.
• For more experienced professionals, or as your career advances, you’ll begin to specialize in one or more practice areas, perhaps as part of their expert consulting track for those with deep knowledge and skills in a particular discipline or industry.
• Every step of the way you will be guided by BCG mentors and world-class learning programs designed to meet your individual needs.

Training & development 

The teams at BCG feature recent graduates with academic backgrounds across numerous disciplines, from business to humanities to science and more. You’ll be able to make an impact from day one in a supportive environment that respects the views of every individual. Here you’ll have the opportunities for international assignments while being supported in a deeply collaborative environment. Hands-on learning, support from your team, and innovative training programs will allow for a smooth transition from the classroom to the real world of business.

Benefits

BCG support each BCGer with a comprehensive employee benefits package, including: 

• Compensation and Retirement Contributions
• Physical and mental well-being perks.
• Balance and Sustainable Working Norms
• Career Growth and Community Support
• Workplace community support system.

To learn more about these benefits provided by BCG, click here.

Career Progression 

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) offers professionals a chance to apply years of practice to new challenges. Here, your career is yours to manage whether you deepen your expertise, stretch and learn with dedicated growth opportunities, or apply your experience to a completely different industry. Your career here is sustainable, supported, and ambitious. BCG works closely with global companies, organizations, and governments to face their challenges head-on and bring their greatest opportunities to life. BCG is more than a step in your career path. Here you'll find individualized mentorship, training and growth programs, and the thrill of working on audacious, ambitious goals. The projects BCGers take on each day are both complex and rewarding, providing a chance to deliver meaningful value.

Work-life balance

Being a global firm, you may find yourself working with people from different cultures and time zones, or you may simply need more latitude to be your curious and creative best. That’s why BCG offers three different flexible work options, along with ongoing support to set you up for success;

• FlexTime
• FlexLeave
• FlexPaths

In the Flexi-time option, the company provides part-time arrangements to reduce weekly work hours. BCG will help you design a model that meets your individual needs and career ambitions. The company's FlexLeave program is intended to help employees maintain a work-life balance by succeeding professionally and thriving personally.

Culture & vibe

Diversity and inclusion are crucial for the progress and success of a global business—and the two go hand in hand as a major part of BCG’s culture. A workforce with diverse backgrounds and perspectives opens the door to innovative solutions, but employees also need to feel welcome and supported to share their unique experiences, voice disagreement, and offer new ideas.

To empower its global network of employees to be their authentic selves at work, BCG has developed employee resource groups to connect peers, colleagues, and mentors around the globe. Their core values are more than just principles. It’s actually built into BCG culture through their work and actions.

How to apply

To apply for this position, simply click the “Apply on employer site” button on this page which navigates to the career page. 

• Whether your goal is a consulting career or you’re applying for another position, you’re most likely to succeed here with qualities like intellectual curiosity, creative thinking, integrity, an open and collaborative attitude, self-efficacy and drive.
• For client-facing positions, they assess your problem-solving and analytical skills, supporting you with the tools and resources you need to prepare so you can excel on the big day. 

There are two main styles of interviews at BCG:

• Skills Interview
• Problem-solving Interview