L.E.K. Own Your Path Award (Melbourne Business School)

L.E.K. was recognised by the Australian Financial Review as one of the Best Places to Work within Professional Services for 2022! Our focus on creating a meaningful and impactful employee experience has contributed to L.E.K. being a genuinely great place to work.

As a global strategy consulting firm, we work with some of the most innovative, and successful organisations to solve their most critical business problems. Founded in London in 1983, we have over 3000 people across 21 offices around the world. Our Australian practice is rapidly growing, and we are looking for motivated and curious final-year students to join our high-performing teams in Melbourne and Sydney in 2024.

Across the Australian corporate landscape women often face barriers to career progression that their male colleagues do not. We want to change that. 

At L.E.K. Consulting, we want to remove those barriers and empower women to own their path, to work and lead authentically, and to make management consulting a sustainable long-term career. Our flexible careers philosophy and inclusive policies are designed to tailor the consultant experience to suit individual needs, and we enable our employees to embrace unique career pathways and balance career advancement with other personal priorities through the different phases of life.

The L.E.K. Own Your Path Award aims to support female-identifying students who are considering a future in management consulting to own their MBA pathway and overcome barriers to balancing work-life-study. Managing career, academic, and personal commitments while pursuing an MBA can be challenging! Let us help to overcome that challenge with you.

The L.E.K. Own Your Path Award will be awarded twice a year (March and August) and includes: 

• A financial award of $7,500, which is designed to support the recipient to create work-life-study harmony where they can better balance academic, work and personal commitments while completing their MBA. Examples of what this payment is designed to be put towards include home office equipment, ride-share to/from school, babysitting, tuition fees, house cleaning, meal delivery services, etc
• Additionally, the recipient will be offered an L.E.K. Consultant internship in either Melbourne or Sydney office to be completed during or post-MBA studies

To be eligible, you must meet the following criteria:

• Identify as female, non-binary or gender-diverse
• Studying a full-time or part-time MBA or EMBA at Melbourne Business School
• Completed core subjects 
• Interested in pursuing a consulting career
• Have a minimum of 5 years' work experience
• Working rights in Australia preferred

Application Procedure: 

Applicants must submit their CV, digital Academic Transcript for MBA subjects completed so far, Academic Transcripts for prior qualifications (including undergraduate degree/s), and a combined total of 300-word response to the following 3 questions (submitted via the cover letter prompt):

• Why are you interested in a consulting career?
• What experience and skills would you bring to L.E.K. Consulting?
• How could this award help you to succeed in balancing your work-life-study commitments for the remainder of your MBA studies? 

Please also indicate whether you are studying part-time or full-time and your expected completion date. 

Applications close on 15 February at 6 pm.  

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to first round interview with L.E.K. on 2 March. This will include 1 case study and 1 behavioural interview.  

Successful first round candidates will proceed to final interview on 10 March.     

Any inquiries can be directed to Honor Makita at h.makita@lek.com 

We look forward to receiving your applications!