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Accenture |
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Consulting firm vs. ACN |
| Date Posted: |
10/06/2003 |
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On the Booz-Allen board, I made the point that there may be some people at ACN who have the skills and potential to work at a top consulting firm such as Booz. But I also said that, in most cases, the idea that an IT outsourcing person (or even an IT temporary "consultant") from ACN could successfully move up in the world and start a career with a consulting firm would be a stretch, in many cases, a leap.
Somebody responded to me: "If everyone at BAH the same condescending attitude that previous poster did, seems like you should stay at ACN."
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Just let me respond by quoting a comment made by a typical ACN employee. It's an excerpt from a post on the Accenture board. I think it speaks for itself. The topic was "St. Charles." Italics were added by me.
"The transition from 20-year old college-kid to 21-year-old "I gotta get up in the morning and at least pretend to be a serious adult who works for a living" can be a big jump to do overnight. St. Chux gives you a chance to practice juggling your 20-something lifestyle with showing up ontime at the client and appearing coherent after staying out late partying the night before . . . By the time we get out St. Chux we've had a chance to practice juggling the daytime "looking good and having a visible impact" client-facing stuff with the partying and drinking that, let's face it, at our age we're not about to just give up so quickly.
Sure, there are some dull 21-yrs-old-going-on-45 dry-bones who come out college all starry-eyed and ready to start acting like a bunch of middle-aged "future executives." People like that are probably more suited for some place like Booz-Allen or Deloitte Consulting or BCG. The reality is that we [IT workers at ACN] are not like that, and you're [i.e., my fellow ACN employees are] probably not like that, either."
Maybe not everyone at ACN is like this fellow, but I'm sure most are.
BAH may not have been the best or happiest place to work at during the past 2 or 3 years. I know that there are some issues. But there is a very big difference between the typical consultant who works for BAH and the computer programmers who work on outsourcing projects for Accenture.
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