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Jakyi, you read my mind |
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03/09/2006 |
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It may seem "logical" that if you let people know what you want, they will tend to help you get it here. Once you have a little experience with ACN, you see that it doesn't work.
By the way, the original poster was talking about the short-term, not the medium, let alone the long-term. He was recruited into ACN with certain previous experience and certain expectations. He immediately got staffed doing something that is a very, very poor match for his skills and his career goals. If he were to stay on at ACN, his resume and skills would start to transform into those skills and experience areas that ACN wanted him in. Within 2 or 3 years it might be too late find work in his old areas of expertise and interests.
It is true that, once you are here for a while, you get a little bit of flexibility in where you get staffed, but it's still limited and it's still very hard to get staffed in areas other than the areas you've been working in for ACN in the recent past. So it may appear that some people are getting their interests and skills matched with engagement staffing, this only applies in situations where there is a match between personal interests and where Accenture has already been using you.
As far as "training" is concerned. It's hard to schedule your PTO time to correspond to the times you want to take a class. Project scheduling dictates this. It's not a good career move to tell your supervisor that you need time off at particular, unchangeable, time for your own personal reasons. In addition, there is the expense of taking a class. ACN doesn't have any tuition reimbursement.
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Everything you mentioned is exactly what's bothering me. In the back of my mind, I knew it was true, but I guess you have to be in denial when you know you fell for Accenture's bs!
Wish my luck because I'm getting my ass out of here asap.
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