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career choice for engineer |
| Message Name: |
scary |
| Date Posted: |
02/21/2006 |
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You must make a choice between engineering and consulting. Once you go consulting there is little chance of returning. I was an experienced engineer and left to join ACN; it was a mixed move. If you wan to do IT/business integration consulting, by all means come to Accenture. It is unarguably the best company in the space (with IBM). If you do go engineering, you will have another choice after a few years ?? technical or management. If you choose management, you will need to do some type of MBA. In the US the engineering tracks make decent coin; but not nearly as much as consulting executives. But hey, there is a reason its called compensation ?? 40 hour work week vs. 60-80 hrs plus the opportunity to live in an airplane 5 days a week. And there is a risk premium ?? what are the odds you make it to consulting executive, maybe 10% or 15%. With your credentials, you may have a very good opportunity to move from engineering into line management at one of the engineering companies in 3-5 years. This is particularly true in Civil E (which I assume is you discipline, as you are looking at the PE). So there may not be the large difference in responsibility or opportunity between the two. As an example, some old classmates in Civil E are managing civil projects in the 10-50M$ range, 7-10 years out of undergrad. You will need to make a choice, both are decent ?? just depends on what you want to do. |
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Kind of scares me what you say there about people not getting into management.
I am electronic engineer student; and i have chosen to join ACN in september because of my interest in IT Project Management: presumeably we still would get to do that?
When you say management you mean like managing accenture do you?
Personally i view accenture as a way of broadening my portfolio of skills: as engineers are viewed as primarily technical. I am aim on banking the money and using it for an MBA to transitin into a management job in industry. THere's a "high-flyers" scheme in Airbus for those who have 3 years of international experience, two european languages and an engineering degree and/or mba .
-That's the sort of thing I'd be going for.
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