Career Path

Our approach to your career in one word – meritocracy!

Your career progression at CVA is mainly driven by your potential, not by your seniority. We’ll help you go beyond your limits through regular and precise feedback, customised follow-up and relevant advice from your mentor. The size of our teams will offer you a unique chance to learn directly from senior leadership.

We celebrate our female colleagues and encourage women and those from diverse backgrounds to apply.

Progression

  • Partner

    You ‘own’ the business

  • Principal / Associate Partner

    You generate business

  • Senior Manager

    Fully in charge

  • Case Manager & Manager

    You lead a team

  • Senior Consultant

    You take responsibility for module

  • Business Analyst & Consultant

    You learn to decipher data & deliver coherent analysis

At CVA, you’ll be invited to take responsibility sooner than anywhere else. From day one, you’ll be a complete consultant, not just an analyst and you’ll be quickly exposed to clients.

You will rapidly have the opportunity to develop your management skills. You will also be invited to build your network and actively contribute to the selling process earlier than you would imagine. At the completion of each case, you’ll have a performance appraisal that will enable you to reinforce your strengths and identify areas for development.

A detailed review process where your skills are individually reviewed runs every semester to determine your specific progression path. Following this HR review, your mentor will give you precise feedback on your profile (skills and potential) and define an individual development plan with you (staffing, training, coaching, career objectives).

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We work hard to deliver a good product but are still able to maintain a happy, healthy lifestyle.”

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How our team structure works and what to expect working on our projects

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Training

As a newcomer, you will have the opportunity to attend the “CVA Challenge” that brings together recent joiners from your region for several intensive days of team activities and training structured around a business game based on a real case. Run by both CVA staff and training professionals, it provides a great learning experience as well as an opportunity to start developing your international network across the CVA offices.

The "CVA Masters" is a week-long global event for all Managers. Developed by CVA with a leading training organisation, this training addresses the major skill areas of more experienced consultants and includes training in CVA methodologies, people management and project management.

In addition, each office organises other types of professional training as required in order to improve consultants’ skills: oral presentation, management skills, financial analysis.

Case lunches are also regularly held to share field experience beyond formal deliverables. They help keep consultants up-to-date with the firm’s innovative methodologies and client issues.

This formalised approach to training is strengthened by CVA's commitment to the development of consulting skills through casework, learning first-hand from Senior Consultants, Managers, Senior Managers and Partners. Senior case team staff provide close guidance to new consultants, leveraging CVA’s core methodologies.

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I travel a lot for my work. Recently I’ve been to the US, to Canada and Australia. Today I’m heading to Berlin.”

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Travel, what office life is like, and leading the initiatives you’re interesting in.

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Mentoring

When you join CVA, you’ll be assigned a mentor who will follow you throughout your career. The mentor is a senior member of the firm with extensive experience, designated to guide, help and motivate consultants and to offer practical and professional advice.

Your mentor is an integral part of your performance evaluation each semester and provides you with clear and constructive feedback on your profile, your skills and your areas for development.

The mentor-mentee relationship also extends beyond the formal professional review process and is based on trust, respect and mutual fit.

Life at CVA

At CVA we go beyond.

We challenge ourselves to be exceptional for each other, our clients, our society and our planet.

Sustainability is at the heart of our work and daily lives. We aim to give back supporting charities close to our hearts, and we push our physical and mental boundaries as we dare to lead.

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Our consultants are drawn from leading universities, business and engineering schools across the globe. Their skills combine mathematical and analytical ability with business knowledge and insight.

We are very proud to announce that CVA has ranked in the 2023 TOP 25 EMEA CONSULTING FIRMS

We take recruitment very seriously at CVA. We dedicate valuable time and energy to find the right people to join our teams.

Our recruitment process is a combination of several case interviews.

Candidates will be assessed on the following criteria: data-driven outlook, problem-solving skills, communication skills, personal and interpersonal skills, motivation and fit with CVA culture.

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