Inside the firm your network is your lifeline. At any given time, you're just a phone call away from a colleague with the expertise you need for your engagement - a director in Bejing will take your call as gladly as another associate in your office. This spirit of connectivity is what underlies our client service approach: delivering 100 percent of the firm, 100 percent of the time, in 100 percent of the world.
Networks naturally evolve from the team process itself. You build close relationships as you work with teams to solve tough problems and it's these relationships that will provide the foundation for your network.
Almost any gathering is an opportunity to develop your network and the firm helps to ensure that you get the exposure you need through:
Training. Firm learning programs bring together consultants from all over the globe in an intense learning environment that fosters true camaraderie and friendship. People who meet at these learning programs are often life-long friends.
Socializing. Frequent learning seminars, mentoring, and training programs, as well as social activities at your office, will provide you with opportunities to interact with fellow consultants, people who will become your coaches, lasting friends, and business contacts.
Mobility. Global mobility is an opportunity to make direct contact with consultants and clients around the world. Whether you travel abroad for an assignment or make a more permanent move, you will have the opportunity to develop a global network.
Knowledge Sharing. The firm's many industry and sector practices are truly global networks of colleagues who share interests. The knowledge development work you participate in is often done remotely with teams made up of consultants from all over the world. Practice meetings and seminars are excellent opportunities to meet people with similar expertise and interests and to build your reputation within the firm.
Clients. Nearly all of our engagements take place on site at the client organization, which is how we believe we can best serve our clients. That means our consultants work in close contact with client team members throughout an engagement. Over the course of a typical 2- to 6-month engagement, you'll often find yourself forming close relationships with these decision makers, who may extend your personal, as well as professional, network.
Alumni. Our alumni (more than 15,000 former McKinsey consultants), are an active and influential group of individuals who have gone on to senior positions in major corporations, nonprofit ventures, and government and educational organizations. Many have started their own businesses. They are linked by more than 100 gatherings - from conferences to cocktail parties - each year around the world. Our alumni Web site allows current and former "McKinseyites" to stay in touch - and they do.
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