Accenture: An insider guide - Gymkhana
Accenture: An insider guide - Gymkhana
Accenture: An insider guide - Gymkhana
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At a Glance<br />
What Insiders Say<br />
In the interview, “I was asked how you handle team problems, individuals who<br />
don’t work, people who miscommunicate. It was easy but you have to be<br />
honest.”<br />
“It’s very different from working in a traditional position, because you’re<br />
working on a project. It focuses you.”<br />
Career Ladder<br />
• <strong>Accenture</strong> employees follow a defined career path with set milestones. New<br />
employees move from analyst, to consultant, to manager, to senior manager,<br />
and in some cases, to associate partner and partner. IT employees work as<br />
programmers before moving into system analyst positions, and then in some<br />
cases, into manager roles.<br />
• Undergrads who join the firm as analysts can generally move to the<br />
consultant level in 2 to 3 years. Undergrads entering into strategy start as<br />
business analysts and may leave to go to business school after 3 or 4 years.<br />
• Midcareer hires join at almost any level, depending on their programming or<br />
industry experience.<br />
Hiring Estimates<br />
<strong>Accenture</strong> is hiring 30,000 people worldwide for its fiscal year ending August<br />
31, 2004. About 8,000 of those positions are in the United States, and of those,<br />
1,600 to 1,800 are likely to be new analysts that have just graduated or have a<br />
few years of experience.<br />
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