OC&C

OC&C's application page lists five early-career tracks:

• Graduate Internship – an 8-week summer placement (June–August), open only to students in the penultimate year of an undergraduate or postgraduate degree. Begins with a week of consulting-toolkit training, followed by a live client project.
• Associate Consultant – Strategy – the full-time graduate entry route into the strategy practice, drawing generalists across degree backgrounds; PhDs and post-docs join at the same Associate Consultant level, with an additional joining bonus.
• Associate Consultant – Analytics – a parallel entry track into the Analytics practice, oriented to economics, mathematics, computer science, or statistics backgrounds with prior data and (any) programming exposure.
• MBA Summer Intern – 8-week placement with consultant-level responsibilities for MBA students.
• MBA Consultant – the post-MBA full-time entry route.

Strategy Associate Consultants can choose between January, March, or September start dates, so a candidate whose degree ends outside the standard June graduation window is not forced into a single September cohort.

Three points shape the early-career fit:

• The firm was founded in London in 1987 by former Booz Allen Hamilton consumer-goods consultants and has remained an independent partnership rather than a division of a Big 4 or audit-linked firm.
• Industry coverage is named explicitly around five practice areas – consumer goods, retail, leisure & hospitality, TMT, and B2B services – alongside an Advanced Analytics & AI capability that doubles as the entry track for the Associate Consultant – Analytics route.
• OC&C was certified as a B Corporation in December 2023, one of a small group of strategy consultancies with the certification.

For a candidate weighing strategy houses, the consequence is project profile: a smaller, sector-focused firm tends to put new consultants on consumer, retail, and leisure work earlier than at a generalist Tier-1 firm where those sectors sit as one practice among many.