This bootcamp has one job: to make your career count from the get-go, without pretending you already have it all figured out. After these three days, you walk away with the tools, the context and the people who will make your first months easier.
Don't expect boring presentations but get ready to do the same kind of tasks you’ll face in the job together with your colleagues.
It's great to meet people your own age. You're all in the same situation, which makes it easy to connect.
During the bootcamp, you take part in a business game that unfolds over three rounds. Working in teams, you set up and run a fictional company, taking it from its roots to a fully operational business.
As the stakes change throughout these three rounds, so do the decisions you have to make. You analyse situations, weigh risks, identify opportunities and create recommendations. Along the way, you sharpen skills that are part of everyday life in Advisory: project management, problem solving, critical thinking and stakeholder management.
AI is part of the experience too. You get to use it as a practical tool that helps you research, explore and strengthen ideas and approaches. You learn to be critical of AI, how it can help you and when your own judgement matters more.
Towards the end of the week, the focus shifts to value creation. How do you increase the value of your business? How do you turn good performance into a compelling story for a potential buyer? And how do you convince others of your vision?
That's where the final pitches come in. After developing your company throughout the bootcamp, you present your value strategy and compete against the other teams.
The business game is only part of the story. You experience what One Advisory at BDO means by meeting graduates from all our different Advisory teams. Whether you work in Digital Advisory, Risk Advisory Services, Deal & Valuation or Management Consulting, you collaborate with people whose backgrounds and expertise differ from your own. And that’s exactly where some of the most valuable learning happens.
Different perspectives lead to better discussions. Different approaches lead to stronger solutions. Before you know it, the people who were strangers on day one become colleagues you can turn to long after the bootcamp is over.
That's the strength of the bootcamp: you learn a lot, but you also get to know the people around you.
Three days later, you leave with a better understanding of Advisory: you know people outside your own team and what they do. You tackled challenges together and built something from scratch. And when you walk back into the office afterwards, a lot more faces feel familiar. Not a bad way to start your journey at BDO 😉
