OC&C Strategy Consultants

We recruit people into all the stages of the consulting career path, with your starting level determined solely by the experience and skills you bring to the table. We look for high levels of intellectual curiosity, strong analytical and creative abilities, excellent communication and leadership skills, and an enthusiastic commitment to the entrepreneurial and participative culture that is the hallmark of OC&C.

Projects tend to be fast and focused, so you'll rapidly gain experience across a wide range of challenges and sectors. Learning the ropes takes time, but your rate of progress depends entirely on personal performance. At OC&C, insight and creativity trump tenure - meritocracy isn't just a word; it's how we make our living.

Join as a Recent Graduate

The best Bachelor and Master’s graduates from leading universities and colleges generally join us as Associate Consultants.

Join post-PhD

PhDs and post-docs will join as Associate Consultants, alongside undergraduate applicants: in our experience a robust grounding in the fundamentals of business, and of consulting, is key to your long-term success. Progress within the firm is entirely on merit, and the benefits of a PhD typically allow you to progress more quickly. Our fastest ever promote to Partner - after just 7 years - was a new joiner with a PhD.

Join post-MBA

We take MBA graduates from the top schools, who will generally join at the Consultant level. You will take responsibility for a significant portion of the project as well as being given sufficient support to make a successful transition into consultancy.

Join with Consulting Experience

Recruits with high performing track records, generally at other strategy consultancies, join us at all levels: Associate Consultant, Consultant, Manager level, Associate Partners or even as Partners.

Join us for a Summer Internship

OC&C also offers summer internships to outstanding driven candidates each summer. Undergraduates, graduates and MBA students are all welcome. You will join a project team as if you were a full-time joiner, serving a client and gaining a first-hand experience in consulting. Most of our interns receive (and accept!) full-time offers after their internship.

At OC&C, we aim to provide a workplace which allows brilliant people to flourish, irrespective of background.

OC&C’s Partners see improving diversity as a good thing in its own right, but there is also a strong business rationale: diversity of thought is critical to delivering the highest standard of advice to our clients. Diversity of background is an important enabler of this, as is an environment which encourages brave thinking from every level of the firm. We are confident we foster the latter, but know we need to do more on the former.

After you join the firm, our one-on-one mentoring programme actively supports all our colleagues and their individual needs, but we also have specific programmes to support female and LGBT colleagues:

OC&C Women's Network

OC&C LGBT Network

At OC&C we look for academic brilliance and a proven track record, so strong grades from a top academic institution are essential. We are not fussy about what you have studied: our consultants join from a variety of disciplines, from art history to nuclear physics. Rather, we want you to demonstrate an intellectual liveliness and a natural curiosity about how the world works.

During our interview process, we assess candidates based on the following areas:

1. Problem solving: strong problem solving and an analytical mind are essential. From day one you’ll be dealing with problems that need to be broken down into their component parts and analysed strategically from the bottom up.
2. Creativity: being able to remove yourself from the parameters of the question and tackle the problem from a unique perspective distinguishes you from other consultants - and thereby distinguished OC&C’s advice from our competitors’.
3. Communications: it’s not enough just so solve the problem – you also need to articulate it clearly and persuade others. Whether you are a new Associate Consultant contributing during a team meeting or an experienced Manager persuading a client of a course of action, you need to be able to explain yourself with clarity.
4. Working well in a team: consulting is a team game. No single person can solve the multi-faceted problems that we tackle on a daily basis. So our consultants have to be team players, able to get the best out of the people around them as well as themselves.

Developing your skills as rapidly as possible is at the heart of our success as a business. Introductory training will equip you with the core consulting toolkit, ongoing training will hone your knowledge of finance, accounting, and strategic thinking, and your project work will offer you diverse opportunities to learn from colleagues, think creatively and get under the skin of how businesses tick. We also host bi-annual off-sites (recent locations include Chicago and Amsterdam) allowing you to learn with and from the global OC&C network.

But we think great consultants are so much more than business machines – that’s why we offer unrivalled opportunities for your personal development. Want to off-road from London to Cape Town? Perfect your Spanish? Run the Marathon de Sables? We offer grants to help you pursue your interests and up to four weeks of extra unpaid leave each year.