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To maintain our competitive position, we must realize the full capabilities and potential of each individual consultant. Consequently, our objective at Dean & Company is to provide an entrepreneurial learning environment that will support our consultants' growth and development. The combination of significant exposure to senior consultants, a career review process that provides detailed, actionable feedback, and career progression that is driven by individual performance, not tenure, enable our professionals to develop at as rapid a pace as they can.

Career progression at Dean is purely performance based: we start with recruiting the most talented and professional people and then ask them to meet a wide array of challenges faced by our clients. We place great emphasis on on-the-job training for developing our consultants, supported by detailed actionable feedback. By understanding the development objectives of all of our consultants, we can place them in roles that allow them to continue to develop new skills and capabilities.

We leverage this case experience through a rigorous career review system that helps focus a consultant's growth potential and improvement efforts. Through the frequent, open, and action-oriented review of each consultant's progress, we provide feedback that helps them reach their potential as quickly as possible. Promotion is based on a "speedometer" versus "odometer" philosophy — it is the individual's skills and drive rather than tenure that determine career path.

The capabilities you will acquire at Dean & Company will provide experience that is most important in today's competitive market — knowing how to create measurable value. While many have made Dean & Company their career choice, our alumni have been able to leverage the skills and experience gained at Dean to continue their record of success and accomplishment in a number of other career paths. Many have enrolled at top business schools or have taken leadership roles in start-ups, hedge funds, and other rewarding business and not-for-profit enterprises.