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During your years in academia, you reached a particularly high level of proficiency in competencies and skills, such as problem solving and analysis, that are critical to consulting. Thus, compared with others just starting at BCG, you will embark on your BCG career with a deeper understanding of the major pillars of the consulting process, thinking through complex problems, finding new analytical approaches to answering questions for which no standard solution is available, formulating and testing hypotheses, thinking through your assumptions in a structured way, and generating insights from your analysis and distilling recommendations. 

As a consultant with a PhD, you will enrich project teams with your own fresh and distinct perspective. Besides, with your desire for new challenges and your creative ability to design innovative ideas, you will provide clients with thoughtful approaches of the highest caliber and solutions tailored to their organization and challenges.

Problem solving in academia frequently centers on best possible solutions without addressing the implementation in depth, but problem solving in consulting aims to create concepts that can readily be implemented to help organizations create and sustain their competitive advantage. In light of the variety that characterizes BCG consulting careers, you will have the opportunity to make positive impact on multiple clients across many industries and business functions.

In all projects, you will have the chance to brainstorm with top-notch executives, as well as with the highly talented members of your BCG teams. You will learn from people with different experience while enhancing your intellectual leadership and ability to credibly communicate and inspire audiences in fields other than your area of specialization. Through this, working at BCG will build bridges for you and open up additional paths, no matter where your interests guide you.

Our on-the-job apprenticeship model, as well as our extensive training and mentorship programs, will help you transition from the academic environment into the consulting world. A tailored training program has been specially designed to help bring consultants with no business background up to speed quickly. In addition, the BCG culture of collaboration and our open-door policy mean that you will always have someone to talk with about your project, the BCG culture and work dynamic, or your experience at BCG.   

If you are interested in leveraging your skills and growing personally and professionally in a global, fast-paced, team-oriented environment, BCG is the right place for you.