Kearney hires ten enterprise analysts out of 1,200 candidates
The Australian wing of Kearney has recruited 10 business analysts from its Sydney and Melbourne offices.
A massive 1,200 applicants had applied for Kearney’s role as a business analyst, making it one of the most competitive graduate positions in the Australian consulting scene. Strategy consulting is notorious around the world for its attractiveness with graduates, which also means that the competition for a very limited number of places is fierce.
In the strict selection in Kearney, Kendall Wu, Eleni Knapp, Jason Hou, James Li, Kate Daine, Harry Stutchbury, Courtney Powell, Kieren Bramham, Max Milstein and Yilin Fan started their roles on February 1st of this year.
Kearney is a global strategy, management and operations consultancy, best known for its supply chain, sourcing, performance improvement and growth skills. The company has been down under for nearly three decades since opening offices in Sydney and Melbourne in 1994.
According to Adam Dixon, who succeeded Nigel Andrade as managing partner of ANZ shortly before the outbreak of the Covid-19 crisis, Kearney plans to grow by “more than 20 percent” this year, he told AFR, with the graduate being a part of employs a wider range of recruiting at all ranks.
Business Analysts began their careers at Kearney with a comprehensive professional development program that included training in advisory and functional skills, as well as the appointment of an in-house consultant to focus on professional development and addressing early challenges. The Dectet have now started to work on their first engagements.
Further reading: Kearney’s consultants share career advice for aspiring analysts.
Just last month, Kearney named five new partners in Australia, three of which were promoted internally. The external employees brought backgrounds at McKinsey & Company, Blue Gum Partners, PwC and Deloitte to the company.
