Traineeship at Berenschot

The Berenschot traineeship offers a year of intensive learning and personal development. You’ll work four days a week on client assignments, under the guidance of experienced consultants from your team. In the process, you’ll learn a great deal from your new colleagues and grow in your field. Every Friday, you’ll participate in the trainee program alongside trainees from other advisory groups within Berenschot. The rest of the week, you’ll shadow Senior Consultants on their projects. You’ll take courses in advisory skills, participate in peer review sessions, and work independently with a group of trainees to complete an assignment for a client. In addition, there’s a strong focus on personal guidance and coaching.

You can immediately apply the insights and skills you gain from the trainee program in real-world situations. Conversely, you can bring the challenges you encounter on the job back to the training sessions and coaching meetings. This way, you’ll significantly expand your knowledge and skills in a short period of time, and your own initiative and ideas are very welcome! Within a year, you’ll get off to a flying start in the consulting profession! Have you completed the traineeship? Then there are plenty of opportunities within Berenschot to advance to a consultant role.

What will you be doing as a trainee?

Berenschot advises a wide range of clients, from nonprofit organizations to for-profit companies, and from startups to large, established Dutch firms. In short, in this role you’ll encounter many different types of companies, each with its own culture, character, and dynamics.

As a trainee at Berenschot, you’ll start in April or October and get off to a flying start in the consulting industry within a year.

As a trainee, we’ll involve you in a wide range of projects where you’ll work directly with management and senior leadership. The projects you’ll work on will depend on the consulting group you’re assigned to. Examples include projects such as:

• working with the client to develop a new development/performance cycle that puts the employee at the center
• developing role and job classifications in collaboration with the client
• help a healthcare facility make more accurate predictions regarding the capacity needed on the front lines
• a municipality to improve the effectiveness of its front-desk services
• Process Optimization
• And much more!

As a trainee, you’ll be a jack-of-all-trades: you’ll conduct analyses, conduct interviews, give presentations, help draft reports and proposals, and take on various roles in internal and external projects.

What are the benefits of the Berenschot traineeship?

Upon completion of the Berenschot traineeship, you will have:

• Understanding your strengths and areas for development as a consultant
• I've gone through a steep learning curve, both personally and professionally
• You’ve built an (internal) network and familiarized yourself with the aspects of our broad consulting portfolio that interest you
• A core group of colleagues (fellow trainees) with whom you share experiences and learn from one another
• Opportunity to advance to a position where your skills are best utilized
• Worked on various complex issues for clients across different industries.

Who do you work with?

You will be working in one of our consulting groups. Berenschot has six consulting groups: Public Administration (OB), Healthcare and Social Development (ZMO), Energy and the Environment (EL), The Future of Work and Organizations (TWO), People Services and Solutions (PSS), and Business and Data Solutions (BDS).

You’ll be working with a wide variety of people. This includes your fellow trainees, your coach, and your colleagues within the consulting group, of course, but also colleagues from the other five consulting groups! Who you work with on assignments depends entirely on the assignment you’re currently working on. But you’ll always carry them out as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Our consultants are all intelligent individuals with strong opinions, grounded in solid knowledge and professionalism. In addition to the serious work, there is plenty of room for humor, camaraderie, and fun activities, such as social gatherings and work meetings at unique locations. There is also Jong Berenschot. Its purpose is to connect young colleagues with one another, as well as with the organization as a whole. Jong Berenschot serves as a platform where all Berenschotters are connected through a variety of activities organized by a young delegation from Berenschot.

What do you bring to the table?

Berenschot is a diverse group of individuals with varied backgrounds. That’s why we focus primarily on whether you’ll be a good fit for the team. Above all, we’re looking for a healthy dose of energy and enthusiasm, combined with curiosity and the ambition to grow in the consulting profession. You enjoy working independently but are just as comfortable collaborating with others, and you take the initiative. In addition, you have:

• A (nearly) completed master's program
• You have 0–2 years of work experience
• A healthy dose of energy and enthusiasm, combined with curiosity and the ambition to grow in the consulting profession
• You have strong analytical skills and are comfortable working with Excel
• Proficiency in the Dutch language
• Strong communication skills and a results-oriented approach

What do we offer?

• Competitive salary, 27 days of vacation, laptop, and cell phone
• A one-year contract. Have you successfully completed the trainee program? If so, you’ll continue to grow, and we’ll extend your contract indefinitely.
• Every Friday, you’ll participate in the trainee program under the guidance of experienced trainers. You’ll do this alongside trainees from other consulting groups, giving you an immediate glimpse into the rest of Berenschot.
• A steep learning curve, plenty of training opportunities, and room for growth; let us know how you’d like to further develop your expertise, and we’ll be happy to help you
• an evaluation based on your results, not on processes, procedures, or attendance
• The option to work from home or the office
• Ambitious, smart, and friendly colleagues who are a pleasure to work with on professional matters, but with whom you can also relax outside of work
• A fantasticinternship programfeaturing weekly training sessions, plenty of guidance, and a great group of fellow interns from a wide variety of backgrounds.

Yes, I want to do this internship!

Would you like to become our new trainee? Please submit your cover letter, resume, and transcript via our website. To ensure we can give all cover letters the attention they deserve, we ask that you keep yours brief. We’d like to hear:

• Why you want to participate in this traineeship
• Why you want to work at Berenschot
• How you want to continue developing.

For more information about the application process and working at Berenschot, please contact Matthijs Nagtzaam (campus recruiter,m.nagtzaam@berenschot.nl, +31 (6) 45692390)

If you have any other questions about the traineeship, please contact Matthijs Nagtzaam (campus recruiter,m.nagtzaam@berenschot.nl) or Mariëlle Boer (senior corporate recruiter, marielle.boer@berenschot.nl)

Things can get very busy during the trainee recruitment process. So if you can’t reach us right away, please send us an email or a WhatsApp message.

You've applied for the job—now what?

The application process consists of an online assessment, two interviews, and a live assessment. We will let you know as soon as possible whether you have been selected to take the online assessment.

We look forward to receiving your application!