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Apply to Ark

Our application process is rigorous to make sure we are attracting and appointing excellent people. Candidates should expect to be challenged and perhaps taken outside their comfort zone, but this is par for the course at Ark and something our people relish.
Whether you are successful or not, we hope you find our recruitment process a valuable experience, enabling you to assess your strengths and weaknesses and to scope your goals.
Please read the following information so you can submit the most effective application.

 

How do I apply?

In order to apply, either on-line or via hard-copy, we will require:

• CV
• Covering letter
• Educational background information
• Work experience

Ensure you have read the contents of this website to maximise your understanding of Ark and to position yourself appropriately. It is important you believe Ark is right for you and that this belief is based on research.

Career Fastrack

Having successfully completed your academic career, now is the time to put the theory into practice. At Ark, our people are exposed to a wide range of business issues of varying degrees of complexity, and consult to highly influential businesses, many of which are household names.

Your exposure will be monitored and controlled whilst you prove your ability. You will be challenged in many ways, including being given a considerable amount of on-the-job experience to help you understand the clients we work with, how we Perform through Partnership and how we continually strive for excellence. Once you have demonstrated your ability as a high-performer, you determine the pace at which you advance.

 

Working at Ark

Ark’s unrivalled position in the marketplace is due substantially to our people’s unified mission to achieve ongoing excellence. Our consultants and all of our staff feel passionate about providing excellence in four major areas:

• Professional Advice
• Service Management
• Solutions Delivery
• Client Satisfaction

Your role will determine the types of clients and activities you focus on. Whether providing technical support via our helpline, or onsite, business critical consultative guidance, you will be calling on all your skills to ensure the four major areas above are fulfilled to the highest degree. In addition, you will be demonstrating you support Ark’s brand values, especially pro-activeness, timeliness and helpfulness.

It is important that our people are able to multi-skill to enable them to answer the myriad of questions we receive from our clients and to ensure a rounded consultative approach. It is also common for our staff to have particular specialisms – areas where they are expert. You will have the opportunity to continually develop your areas of expertise and will be encouraged to learn as much as you can and will be able to call upon one of the largest research libraries to assist in your learning.

Whether you are just embarking on your career, or you are a fully experienced consultant of many years, you will expect to make a significant contribution. You will be encouraged to voice your opinion, challenge findings, respond to client concerns and forge relationships. The professional diversity of our teams enables us to bring a broad range of perspectives when addressing our clients’ challenges.

 

A Culture of Learning

Our business and the clients we work with are at the leading edge of their industries and as such, it is imperative that we continuously develop and improve in all we do. You will be in an environment where expanding our knowledge base is one of our core objectives and you’ll learn to call upon that knowledge in practical scenarios on a daily basis.

We invest heavily in research and interpretation of legislation and approved codes of practice. Our clients rely on us to guide them in this area, helping them to understand the specific effects to their business and to act accordingly, positioning us as a major authority and the leading advisor in the markets we serve.

 

What Consultants Do

As a Consultant at Ark, your mission will be to deliver outstanding service, solutions, advice and clients relations; to delight and get close to our clients so that we are their first choice for advice and solutions.

Our clients benefit from our fresh thinking, constructive challenge and practical and commercial understanding of the issues they face. As consultants, we develop strong, personal relationships with our clients as this is the cornerstone of our approach. We come to share their aspirations and goals and work hard to help them achieve the outcomes.

We develop every solution first by listening, observing and understanding what our clients are looking to achieve. From this we create workable and dependable solutions combining our people, our processes, our technology and intellectual property with reliability, scalability and capacity. An Ark consultant always looks at the entire lifecycle to ensure that the solution covers the future and is comprehensive by encompassing the wider issues and implications for our clients. Only by doing this do we achieve Performance through Partnership.

 

Make a Difference

Ark is dedicated to exceeding customer expectations and delivering comprehensive solutions to our clients. We work with some of the UK’s most successful businesses and are involved in solving issues of significant consequence.

We strongly believe that each member of our team, regardless of position, can make a difference. Our confidence is derived from the high entry level for candidates to join Ark and, thereafter, the high training standards and continuous development for conduct and performance.

 

Your Success

Ark is interested in outstanding professionals who bring considerable industry and practical knowledge, experience and specialised skills to our clients.

We understand that our people have varying degrees of practical knowledge, experience and specialised skills and we are committed to providing you with the challenges to positively stretch you, and the support to help you succeed.

Our objective is to train, develop, promote and reward our people in order to provide the professional and personal development required to ensure superior performance for our clients.

Whilst each engagement will be well defined, you can expect change to be a constant. Our clients’ requirements will vary continuously so it is important you regularly challenge your thinking and approach. Our team embrace this culture of variety as it brings new opportunities for learning and development, which in turn enables them to take on new and greater challenges.