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Your experience sets you apart
Your experience sets you apart
We welcome experienced professionals from every field—finance, engineering, the military, law, and more. At McKinsey, you’ll take on complex challenges that demand fresh thinking, collaboration, and leadership.
Some join to deepen their expertise, others to explore a new path. What unites them is the opportunity to use what they know to drive meaningful change, grow as leaders, and shape what comes next.
Why Consulting?
Try out different industries
Work across new sectors and functions without being pigeonholed. Explore what excites you as a long-term path.
C-suite impact
Collaborate directly with senior executives and firm leaders on the issues that affect entire markets and industries, not just one organization—gaining at scale leadership experience you can’t get anywhere else.
Career growth
Here, your pace depends on impact, not openings. You can specialize, explore, or change course as your interests evolve, with the flexibility to focus on what excites you.
No fixed hierarchy
Instead of bosses, we have a deep culture of personal and mutual accountability. Each of us are measured by the merits of our work and the support we give each other (and our clients) in theirs - and not by our title, tenure or track record.
Careers for Experienced Professionals
At McKinsey, experienced professionals take many paths. You might join to serve our clients—bringing deep expertise in an industry or function, driving enterprise-wide transformations, or designing technology solutions. We know the experience you bring is hard-earned. At McKinsey you’ll use it, strengthen it, and grow in ways you can’t elsewhere.
Driving impact with clients
Partner with a wide range of clients to tackle the world’s toughest challenges, leveraging technology to accelerate sustainable and inclusive growth—while deepening your expertise and advancing your leadership in business and technology to deliver meaningful, lasting impact.
Innovating with tech
Join a global team of technologists transforming industries and reimagining how organizations run. You’ll collaborate with experts worldwide, apply the latest tools to complex challenges, and build solutions with lasting impact.
Powering our firm
From finance and legal to design and HR, our colleagues in internal firm roles are leaders in their fields and cite unparalleled learning and caliber of their colleagues as the reasons they choose a career here.
Benefits that go beyond the basics
Performance at this level calls for more than standard benefits. We provide the support you need to be at your best—from healthcare, retirement plans, and parental leave to on-demand wellness resources.
But our definition of “benefits” is broader. It also includes mentorship and development to help you thrive at McKinsey here, plus a sense of belonging in a lifelong global network that stays with you long after you leave. It’s a package built to support you now and set you up for success that lasts a lifetime.
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