Associate Consultant - Emerging Talent team

Korn Ferry is a global organizational consulting firm. We help clients synchronize strategy and talent to drive superior performance. We work with organizations to design their structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people to bring their strategy to life. And we advise them on how to reward, develop, and motivate their people.

Our 10,000 colleagues serve clients in more than 50 countries. We offer five core solutions: Organizational Strategy, Assessment and Succession, Talent Acquisition, Leadership Development and Total Rewards.

About KF Consulting

Korn Ferry’s organizational consulting services target the most critical challenges facing global businesses today: attracting, developing, motivating, and retaining talent, as well as creating the right structures to support that talent.

Korn Ferry offers graduates the opportunity to develop themselves professionally. We are an international advisory firm and together with management teams we aim to make their strategy specific and concrete. We help our clients develop talent and ensure their people are more effective in their work and are motivated to perform optimally. Our goal: to enable people and organizations to reach and utilize their full potential.

The Role

Korn Ferry consistently sets ambitious goals, also for our own people. We help our Associate Consultants utilize their full potential. As such, we are looking for sharp and keen advisors who are engaged, committed and courageous.

As an Associate Consultant you will be part of the Emerging Talents team in Amsterdam and you will work closely with consultants during the proposal and delivery phase of projects. You will conduct thorough analyses on industries, organizations, processes and jobs. The work will vary constantly; one day you will be performing analyses or writing a report in the office, the next you might conduct interviews at the client’s site or facilitate a workshop or meeting together with a colleague.

Education, experience, and other qualifications:

· Recently completed a university master’s degree with high results;

· Fluent/Native Dutch and English

· has demonstrated affinity with business and organizations;

· has strong analytical and conceptual capabilities;

· has put in effort to develop themselves personally during their studies;

· has experience with organizing and/or leading initiatives during their studies;

· is interested in how organizations work (business focus);

· is curious, has an entrepreneurial mindset and is eager to learn;

· is strongly driven by quality;

· has great social skills and is inter-personally savvy;

· shows courage and has a sense of humor;

· has a positive mindset with a ‘can do’ mentality.