The kind of people we seek

As a consulting firm, we at Roland Berger consider each and every employee who delivers value to our clients to be our greatest asset.

Consultants who enter our firm as new graduates are especially like valuable but yet unpolished gemstones. Your flexible minds enable you to learn our corporate philosophy and consulting methods and how to work as professionals on the job as well as to immediately put into practice what you learn.

Thus, recruiting is one of our most critical corporate activities. It gives us the opportunity to meet students who possess great future potential, exchange ideas with them and encounter like-minded people striving for the same goals.

Our expectations of applicants include the conceptual ability to think creatively, the ability to structure a variety of facts and hypotheses, the ability to think flexibly and to leverage opportunities, as well as smooth communication skills and team spirit. Ultimately, as a new graduate hire you need to be aware of client issues and to understand the surrounding environment. You must also learn to organize and conceptualize this knowledge, leverage it to create new value, communicate that value to the client and link it to action.

Of course, we do not expect you to have perfected this wide range of capabilities before you join us. Rather, your “gemstone quality” and ability to polish your skills are important. What matters is the extent to which you want to try to grow and whether or not you have the mettle to accomplish that desire. To be able to do this, it is absolutely essential that you be willing to listen intently to others and constantly learn, to believe that you can overcome any challenge no matter how difficult, and to maintain a sense of excitement about the solution, even as the problem becomes increasingly hard to solve. In other words, it is your determination to insatiably pursue your personal growth that we want to see most.

Roland Berger offers an environment more than sufficient to polish yourself. By learning and continuing to take on challenges at Roland Berger, new graduate hires who start as raw gemstones are continually polished, thereby gaining a new brilliance.

Qualities sought in a consultant

• Creative conceptual thinking ability and the ability to structure details
• The ability to think flexibly and leverage opportunities while keeping an eye on the way ahead, the ability to communicate effectively and team spirit
• The willingness to listen calmly to others and constantly learn, mental toughness and a spirit of challenge
• The ability to bring an assignment to its conclusion responsibly