Early careers
Do you want a career where you’ll be energised and inspired by the experts around you, where diversity fuels ingenuity, and where you’ll have the chance to deliver insight and impact across clients and communities from day one?
It’s time to power your curiosity. Embark on an exciting and highly rewarding career at PA.
A career at PA will take you places
Our early careers programmes give you the opportunity to embrace your curiosity, build a unique career, and make a difference from the outset. Working with our diverse experts – made up of strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists – you’ll help deliver new-to-world products and services, break new ground on varied and purposeful projects, and pioneer change.
Partnering with clients, you’ll be delivering work to help build a world that is safer, healthier, more equitable, prosperous, and sustainable. From breakthrough cell and gene therapies that fight cruel diseases to innovative materials that replace single-use plastic, and from AI technologies that keep soldiers safe on the frontline to accelerating the energy transition – you'll help us solve the world’s most complex challenges in a way that carves out a meaningful career path, and where you can do your best work.
Joining the graduate programme was a brilliant start to my consulting career. I quickly built a network that led to exciting projects across different areas. Senior colleagues were welcoming and supportive, helping me grow in confidence and feel part of something bigger from day one.”
See it for yourself: Life in early careers
Discover what it’s like to kick-start your career at PA. Explore life at our Global Innovation and Technology Centre, take a look at our opportunities in digital, or have your questions answered in our myth-busting video.
Global programmes
In the UK, we have a range of early careers opportunities. You can join us as a graduate, a summer intern, or for a 12-month industrial placement depending on your circumstances. We also have a degree apprenticeship offering.
Our Denmark office hires student assistants to join our consulting teams at the end of your Bachelor’s studies or start of your Master’s studies. You’ll work flexibly alongside your coursework, with the opportunity to continue as an analyst after graduation.
In Sweden, you can join our consulting teams as a student intern at the start of your Master’s studies, working part-time alongside your studies. After graduation, you’ll have the opportunity to continue with us as an analyst.
Join us in the Netherlands during your Bachelor’s or Master’s studies as a full-time intern or part-time working student for a minimum of six months. After graduation, you’ll have the opportunity to continue your journey with us as an analyst.
In the US, we offer a broad range of campus recruitment opportunities across multiple ranks. You can join us straight after your Bachelor's degree as an analyst, or after your Master's as a consultant analyst. Candidates with a PhD typically enter at the consultant level. We also at times hire senior consultants; these are individuals who return to the workforce after 5+ years of experience and have completed an MBA. Roles are available within our consulting teams in our Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, New York or San Francisco offices.
What we’re looking for
Each region and programme has specific requirements but wherever you apply, we’re always looking for early careers candidates who are:
- Adaptable and can flex their style and thinking to the complex challenges we solve
- Collaborative and work at their best in dynamic teams
- Curious and want to broaden their understanding of the world
- Credible and comfortable working with clients in high performance environments
- Driven and want to succeed in their careers and support our clients in their success
- Open to change and have a growth mindset, willing to take on new challenges and learn from their experiences
- Considerate of all the options before taking action and implementing their ideas
- Engaging and build positive relationships with their clients, colleagues and the communities we serve
Explore our UK early careers opportunities
We have a variety of early careers opportunities in the UK where you can build a rewarding career, power your curiosity, and create impact for clients and communities.
What to expect
Inclusion and equality
In an ever-changing world, our purpose – building a positive human future – is our constant. Alongside our values, our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. Our team of experts brings our purpose to life through the different ways they think, challenge, and innovate. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.
We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward, and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.
Adjustments or accommodations
Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.
