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The kind of person who has thought about going out on your own. Everyone good has.
The work was never the problem. The two years without a salary and all of that risk upfront was.
You'd be taking a recent group acquisition and handed the keys to build it out into a new region. The company has clients and massive resources, you’d introduce your own and manage the growth. There’s support in terms of initial resource so you’re not doing everything yourself, and there’s existing work, bid teams and BDMs galore to help get you off the ground.
You probably already know how difficult it can be to do this in some places. Six months to get one line changed in a manual. A hire that needs a business case, a headcount panel and wasted quarters waiting for sign off. Rates set by someone in another office who's never met the client.
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I’m in my final year doing Economics and I don’t know whether to apply for grad schemes now or do a masters first. What do you think?
Honest answer — it depends on where you want to end up. A lot of top grad schemes (Big 4, civil service, banking) don’t need a masters. Let’s look at the ones you’d be competitive for now, and we can decide if a masters actually adds anything.
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Graduate Consultant — 2026 Scheme
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StrongYour economics background and your summer at a regional bank line up with what PwC looks for on the consulting scheme. Applications close in four weeks.
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Why you're a good match
You’ve got the grades and the economics background, and your bank internship is exactly the experience this scheme looks for. Apply soon — deadlines close within the month.
Experience fit
Your summer at the bank plus your econometrics coursework map directly to the day-one responsibilities on this scheme — client modelling, market briefings, and deal support.
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Here you change the process on the day you decided to change it. You hire in October because you want them in October. You price the job. Nobody is carrying your decisions upstairs and coming back three weeks later with a question.
You’d be working for a well backed group of companies. Build this into something that matters and there's a real chance of ownership in it for you, even without that you’re looking at a top salary, a very significant bonus and still more progression.
You’d come and go into the office as suits you and your team, have ultimate flexibility and take 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, with nobody counting your hours.
What you'll be doing
- Building the CDM service line out into a new region, from a strong base.
- Hiring your own consultants and deciding what the team looks like as it grows
- Keeping a close eye on the complex schemes
- Further building an established building safety client base from new and existing sources and turning it into work.
- Setting the process, the pricing and the standards, and being able to change them when they need changing.


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What you'll need
- A track record of CDM leadership or management from Associate - Director level.
- Senior client facing credibility, comfortable winning work as well as delivering it
- Happy to cover London and travel where the work is
Matt Kirk | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annoyingrecruiter/ | matt@theannoyingrecruiter.com
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