Graduate Consultant
Opportunity Details
Nous Group
Canberra, Darwin, Brisbane
Graduate
Applications open 30 Mar 2025
Apply by 19 Apr 2025
Starts 1 Feb 2026
About
Are you ready to make an impact from day one?
At Nous, you'll work on projects that shape the future—helping governments, businesses, communities, and citizens thrive. From day one, you’ll gain the consulting skills to make a meaningful contribution to your team and clients.
Consistently ranked as a Great Place to Work and recognised as a top consulting firm, we offer a vibrant culture where curiosity is valued, learning is continuous, and your professional growth is actively supported and celebrated.
Bring your passion, ideas, and ambition to a team that backs your development and empowers you to create lasting change.
Join us in our mission to realise a bigger idea of success.
Nous is an ideal place to start your career journey. We deliver a dynamic and varied experience across a range of sectors, practices and offers. This may include experience in data analytics, design, digital, economics, implementation, leadership, organisational performance, public policy, regulation, or strategy.
You will hit the ground running – working in project teams from day one. Our intensive graduate induction program aims to set you up for success, teaching key consulting skills and building your knowledge quickly. Your development doesn’t end with induction; it continues throughout your time at Nous. This is primarily on the job in multidisciplinary teams, working closely with Nous leaders on diverse client projects, but also through targeted courses, webinars, performance check-ins, online learning, and formal learning programs.
Hiring Process
Submission, Online Assessment, First Round Interview, Assessment Day
Candidate Qualities
Ideal candidates for this role are:
Passionate about doing work that matters and creates positive influence, in an environment that values diversity and creativity.
Motivated to deliver high quality work and outcomes for clients and colleagues, underpinned by a consistent commitment to professionalism.
Intellectually flexible and curious with the ability to learn quickly across a range of subject matters and apply what you learn to real-world problems.
Well organised with the ability to manage multiple pieces of work simultaneously.
Resilient with the ability to thrive in fast-paced, uncertain, and intense working environments.
Capable of working autonomously including by taking the initiative to draw on the expertise of those around you.
Our graduate consultants excel in:
Problem-solving skills, including the ability to analyse qualitative and quantitative data.
Written and verbal communication skills, including clear and compelling structured thinking.
Interpersonal skills including the ability to provide and respond to feedback and navigate uncertain environments with clients and colleagues.