The company
PA Consulting is a global independent management, systems and technology consulting group that delivers business transformation strategies and cutting edge technology solutions to a large number of clients. With headquarters in London, the group has offices in several major cities in Great Britain and operates in 35 countries located on five continents. PA Consulting was founded as Personnel Administration (PA) Limited by three English entrepreneurs back in 1943. Since then, PA Consulting's experience has been extended into multiple industries, including energy, telecommunications, finance, defence, IT, strategic management, manufacturing and healthcare. On top of that, the group's technology development capability is almost unrivalled. In 2007, PA Consulting won the MCA Management Award for more than 10 years of excellence in working with clients. In the last nine years, PA reaped more than 30% of all the top awards in the consulting industry.
Careers at the PA Consulting Group
PA Consulting Group is always focused on further business growth and looking for passionate, innovative, original individuals, opinion makers and team players. PA recruiters actively seek competent, driven consultants to take up positions on all the levels in the company. Entry-level analyst positions are in very high demand and only one percent of the applicants get recruited. They are usually recent college graduates with an impressive academic score. To make sure that recruitment is as fair as possible and that only the best candidates are chosen, each applicant for a job at the PA Consulting Group must go through a strict selection process, which consists of aptitude tests, personality profiling, group exercises and role play interviews among other things.
PA Consulting Group organisational structure
There are six ranks at the PA Consulting Group: Analyst, Consultant Analyst, Consultant, Principal Consultant, Managing Consultant and Partner. PA recruiters look for new people to fill positions on all the levels in the firm. All PA employees, regardless of rank, are committed to high quality and excellence when delivering end-to-end solutions to their clients.
The perspective
PA Consulting Group is owned by its employees - 3,000 exceptionally accomplished individuals who excel at taking a highly responsive, interdisciplinary approach to complex assignments and at applying innovative solutions to the business challenges placed in front of them. In order to attract and hold on to the very best consultants, PA presents its employees with a greater number of opportunities to advance their careers than any other consulting firm and helps them develop operating, marketing and interpersonal skills as well as thought leadership potential, which benefits the firm's clients as much as it does the consultants and the PA Consulting Group itself.
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