We are thrilled to offer ADvantage, a week-long advanced degree internship designed to give graduate students, postdocs and medical residents the opportunity to learn first-hand what it is like to be a Bain consultant.
ADvantage is a week-long, paid internship designed specifically for advanced degree candidates that are seeking an immersion into life at Bain and exposure to a career in consulting.
Our program includes a full day of training followed by 4 days staffed to a real Bain case team.
ADvantage interns will participate in our client work, manage their own workstream with the support of a consultant mentor, and enjoy a variety of social activities to meet the members of our teams and experience our rich and unique culture.
Candidates that are selected to participate in our internship program will also receive early consideration and interviews for our full-time consultant positions.
Applications go live every January right here on the Bain careers website.
ADvantage will be offered by the following Bain offices the week of May 9-13, 2022:
Program itineraries will vary slightly in every office but interns can expect to experience much of the following during their internship with Bain:
Who can apply:
ADvantage is intended for candidates that are currently enrolled in an advanced degree program or those that have recently graduated (1 – 3 years prior) with their advanced degree.
Eligible degree programs include:
Format:
Interviews are required in order to be considered for our ADvantage program. Interviews will consist of two, 40-minute traditional case interviews. Candidates should also be prepared to answer a few experience questions about themselves and why they are interested in consulting/ the ADvantage program.
Timeline:
Candidates that have been selected to interview for ADvantage will be notified via email by the end of March and interviews will take place over Zoom in mid-April.
Interview prep resources:
ADvantage applications go live every January right here on the Bain careers website.
Application deadline:
The deadline to apply for our 2022 ADvantage programs is Sunday, March 6, 2022 @ 11:59pm PST.
Interested candidates should apply online as soon as they are ready. Submitting an early application will indicate your office preferences and allow us to consider you for invite-only, office-level connections and events.
Application requirements:
Application insights:
In the application, you will have the ability to select up to three Bain offices that interest you the most. You will then need to allocate 100 percentage points across these office(s) to reflect your interest-level in each office. The offices that you select in your application will become the office(s) that consider you for their ADvantage program and for their full-time consultant roles following the ADvantage program..
When indicating office preferences in your application, please keep in mind that successful interns will receive a full-time consultant offer from the office where they completed the internship. For this reason, we ask that you apply only to office(s) where you would happily accept a full-time offer.
For more information on selecting office preferences, please visit our FAQs section.
What makes an applicant standout:
Our ADvantage program is only available in select North American offices at this time. Please review the “Participating offices & dates” tab for the complete list of our participating offices before submitting your application. Only these offices will be reviewing applications.
When selecting office preferences in your application, please keep in mind that our successful interns will receive a full-time consultant offer in the office where they completed their internship. For this reason, we ask that you apply only to office(s) where you would happily accept a full-time Bain offer (i.e. apply to office(s) where you want to live and work).
If you’re not familiar with Bain’s global office locations, you may click here to learn more.
If your top office preference is not hosting an ADvantage program, you may instead be interested in our Access to APAC Program, run by select Asia-Pacific and Australian offices.
However if your preferred office(s) are not offering either program, then we would instead recommend applying during our full-time consultant recruitment process later in the year for the office(s) that you’re interested in.
If you have geographical flexibility and would happily accept a Bain offer from your second and/or third choice office and that office will be hosting ADvantage, then we welcome you to apply to those office(s) for ADvantage.
Please note: Offer transfer requests (to join a different office than where you completed your ADvantage or Access to APAC program) will not be available.
No, please apply for either the ADvantage internship or the Access to APAC program – not both. Please carefully consider whether you’re interested in our North American or Asia-Pacific and Australian offices for full-time employment before submitting your application.
Yes! Given how competitive these internships tend to be, we encourage interested applicants to apply to both programs. However, you will only be invited to interview/participate in one of these programs.
Yes! A failed application and/or interview for ADvantage will not affect your candidacy during our full-time recruitment process; these are entirely separate review processes. Bain reconsiders all ADvantage applicants and interviewees during our full-time application review, and we have had several candidates go on to receive their Bain offers this way in the past. Sometimes, those extra few months of case prep and conversations make all the difference!
Applications are not rolling. We do not begin our final selection process until all applications have been received and the application deadline has passed.
Applicants can expect an email with the outcome of their application by late March.
Ideally, candidates that are currently pursuing an advanced degree will apply to ADvantage in the penultimate year of their degree program (i.e. they will apply to ADvantage the year prior to their target graduation/completion date). Candidates should be targeting a full-time career starting the following calendar year.
Some offices may have flexibility for ADvantage interns to start full-time in the same calendar year as when they complete their ADvantage internship, so candidates that are looking for more real-time start date options are still encouraged to apply to ADvantage. Start date options in that office will be discussed prior to interviews for the program.
We are monitoring the situation very closely and will make a final decision as we approach the spring. Candidates considering ADvantage should be prepared, at minimum, to recruit and interview virtually in 2022.
For the program week itself, we’re likely to offer a hybrid model in 2022 – where some interns will be onsite (in our offices) and others may be joining their teams virtually (remote). Given some Bain teams have returned to in-person work and others have yet to return to the offices, we expect that a hybrid model will offer the flexibility necessary in 2022. Interns that are not comfortable traveling or being in-person will not be required to do so.
Bain is very confident in our ability to deliver an engaging and supportive virtual internship experience. We successfully offered the program virtually in 2020 & 2021, and extended our highest number of internship and full-time offers to date! Our teams are accustomed to virtual working arrangements and supporting team members who are working from home.
International students are eligible and welcomed to apply to our program. We have had several international students participate in our ADvantage program in the past.
If you are studying in the US with a student visa, please be sure to connect with your international advisor to discuss any steps necessary to apply for CPT / OPT in order to participate in ADvantage.
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