| Topic Name: |
ACN != Good? |
| Message Name: |
Advancement |
| Date Posted: |
03/10/2006 |
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Allow me to clarify that the Services workforce is not necessarily bad. If you enjoy working with the technology on a day-to-day basis and you like the idea of staying home and not having to travel (say, if you have a family) and don't really care about management prospects or doing much of anything else outside your same realm of day-to-day work with/for the same people all the time, it's probably not a bad deal and pays okay (and can actually pay pretty well if you're an expert with your technology). If you're already at the manager level, you may have already achieved your career objective and can just sit back and coast until you get bored or get laid off.
However, the problem is that sometimes the Accenture recruiters don't get it right and people who have Consulting ambitions and abilities (higher risk, higher lifestyle demand, faster pace, higher rewards) are placed into Services which obviously doesn't fit that profile. Given its consistently high turnover numbers, the same is frequently true for the Solutions workforce, which is intended as a lower-cost, lower-visibility complement to the Consulting and Services workforces.
The main problem is that due to the nature of project work, people from Services and Solutions almost inevitably find the same lifestyle and work demands placed on them (if not more) than those who are "supposedly" higher-value-add Consulting resources. |
| Message: |
For advancement, does it make a difference if I'll be in the Services workforce at a Delivery Center? I do care about management prospects and I like adapting to different technical solutions. I hope I won't be starting in the wrong workforce..
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