Learning & Professional Development

CRA’s homegrown educational series exclusively created and led by our employees. The firm-wide sessions focus on technical and analytical tools. Recent topics include Python, Excel Shortcuts, Tableau, Outlook, Web Scraping and Social Listening, and more. As these trainings are fuelled with ideas from our staff and taught by internal experts, Tech Labs allow employees to “pay the learning forward” and share their expertise with others.

Regular skill development workshops provide training opportunities to work on soft skills like the art of giving feedback, and credibility & presence along with more in constant development.

Core curriculum is complemented by practice and department-specific training resources, modules, and programs that support consultant development. This includes lunch and learns, online new hire learning tracks, technical roundtables, project debriefs, case studies, training bootcamps, and more!

Though our partnership with LinkedIn Learning, employees have the opportunity to develop skills on their own time and in alignment with their personal learning objectives. Courses include soft skills like being an inclusive manager to becoming a developer in Python.

We provide options for reimbursement to offset the cost of pursing educational goals to cover fees associated with external courses and other professional development opportunities.

“During Core training, I gained a lot from hearing about the experiences of vice presidents, project managers, and junior staff who worked in different practices and offices than my own. I am confident I will be managing my time more effectively and in turn, be more productive with projects.”

“I appreciate CRA’s commitment to continuous learning. I have found LinkedIn Learning to be a particularly useful tool to refresh technical skills and to learn more about topics that are important to our business. I thought some of the courses on Excel pivot tables were helpful because we process large amounts of data within Finance, and I believe there is always an opportunity to optimize the way we use Excel. I look forward to exploring more courses on the LinkedIn Learning platform and would encourage others to do the same.”

“During RAC I appreciated everyone instilling a sense of belonging into all of us new hires. I think for a lot of us, especially myself, the prospect of starting my professional career and this being the first role I have out of college is daunting and scary and I think there can be a sense of imposter syndrome, but everyone at RAC has been very welcoming and made it a point to say they love that we are here and they’re very excited for us to be here and to be joining the firm so that has been great to hear.”