Expression of Interest - Toronto Graduate Consultant 2025

Pre-register your interest in a 2025 graduate role with Nous Group in Toronto!

Nous is a great place to work…

We deliver a dynamic and varied experience that generates positive influence and growth for our clients, our colleagues, and you.

Working at pace and delivering great projects is balanced with benefits.

• We offer active career and professional development support, funding professional development activities and reimbursing one professional membership per year.
• All Nousers have flexibility around public holidays. We understand that people of different cultures, religions, and political beliefs may wish to choose to take alternative days of leave from scheduled holidays.
• Consultants engage directly with clients on projects and colleagues of all levels.
• Hybrid working is supported while acknowledging that the fastest learning happens when working face to face with clients and colleagues. Nousers receive a once off payment to set up their home office.
• A collaborative bonus that reflects company performance is available to all permanent employees.
• Supporting working parents by providing 16 weeks parental leave top up for primary carers and 10 weeks parental leave top up for secondary carers (access to parental leave is gender neutral).
• Nousers aim to deliver an average of 8 hours client project work per day and are then able to spend additional time on growth – either yours, your colleagues’ or Nous’, which may include time on professional development, mentoring, IP development, or involvement with Nous’ employee networks.

What we do...

Nous offer expert consulting services across a range of services including business strategy, public policy, organizational capability and development, transformational change, and digital strategy and capability.

A snapshot of recent projects:

• re-designing education innovation functions and organization design for major universities
• developing a strategy to respond to key health system challenges and reforms including the use of health analytics and technology
• generating solutions using advanced data analytics techniques to better design policy, strategy, and services

How we will develop and support you...

At Nous, we want you to hit the ground running, working in project teams from day one. We have designed an intensive graduate induction program to set you up for success, teaching key consulting skills and extending your knowledge quickly. Your development doesn’t end with induction, it continues throughout your time at Nous with a wide range of learning opportunities, primarily on the job in diverse client projects, but also through targeted courses, webinars, performance check-ins, online learning, and formal learning programs.

For those with the necessary energy and aptitude, we will ensure that Nous supports your growth with the opportunity to rotate across consulting offers. This may include experience in data analytics, design, digital, economics, implementation, leadership, organizational performance, public policy, regulation, or strategy.

Want to find out more? Watch our graduate recruitment video.

More about Nous

Nous is an international management consultancy with over 750 people working across Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and Ireland. We are a values-based organization that is inspired and determined to improve people’s lives in significant ways. Working in unique, cross-disciplinary teams we create innovative and enduring solutions that transform businesses, governments, and communities. We realize a bigger idea of success.

We are excited to be extending success and influence globally having recently been certified as a Great Place to Work in Canada and the UK in 2023.

Furthermore, Nous Australia is regularly acknowledged as a great place to work as part of competitive workplace reviews. In 2023, Nous was again named one of Australia’s Best Workplaces by Great Place to Work and was recognized as one of LinkedIn’s best places to grow a career, as a LinkedIn Top Company. We have previously been named Best Management Consulting Firm by the Australian Financial Review and a Great Place to Work every year that we have entered.

Our recruitment process

Your recruitment experience may vary; however, a typical process will follow: an online assessment; preliminary interview; skills interviews; verbal & written case studies.

To succeed in a graduate consulting role at Nous you are:

• enthusiastic, curious, and eager to learn
• intelligent and academically accomplished
• skilled in strong quantitative analysis
• able to undertake structured qualitative analysis in a logical and efficient manner
• able to demonstrate excellent written and oral communication skills
• well organized, with the ability to manage multiple pieces of work simultaneously
• effective at working autonomously and in a self-managed way, using initiative to draw on the expertise of those around you.

Finally, some important details...

Nous is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage individuals from equity-deserving groups to apply and share this in your application. Nous values a diversity of lived experiences, perspectives, and ideas as an asset in serving communities globally.

To apply for a role at Nous in our Toronto office, you must have the right to work in Canada.

Please note if you are successful in the recruitment process, you will be required to undertake background screening prior to your commencement at Nous.

If you have experience working on complex problems and want to be part of a dynamic team that puts people at the center of everything, then we'd love to hear from you! Please pre-register your interest in a graduate role now, and you'll be the first to hear when recruitment opens!