Job Responsibilities
As an Accenture consultant your responsibilities are driven by
several factors including:
* Your 'workgroup' (e.g. Business System and Integration
Consulting, Technology Consulting, Business Consulting)
* Your career level (e.g. Analyst, Consultant, Manager)
* Your competencies... and competence!
* The project
* The client
* And, perhaps most importantly, your project role
As a consultant in the London office my responsibilities have
ranged from creating testing material for IT systems - not very
sexy - to leading teams (<10 people) and managing senior client
stakeholders
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Job Requirements
London office:
* A solid, but not outstanding, academic record, e.g. good A-
levels, 2:1 from a Russell Group university.
* Demonstrated ability to work in, and lead, teams.
* Interest in applying technology to business challenges.
* Self-starter.
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Uppers
* Exposure to multiple clients.
* Exposure to multiple roles.
* Relative to other industries, meritocratic and young.
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Downers
* Unbalanced work-life-balance, especially on out-of-town
engagements
* Low(ish) pay for the demands the job can place on you
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Lifestyle
The consulting lifestyle is project driven and nomadic (we follow the work).
I've been on mostly good projects: roles I could develop in, 8-10 hours per day,
personable colleagues and generally co-operative clients.
...and a couple of bad projects: 10-14 hours per day, holidays cancelled at
short notice, a client lead who openly aired his "hatred" of consultants, an
egotistical manager.
FYI, it seems that most people who post on the Accenture message board are on
bad projects!
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Compensation
Dependent on firm, but if money is your only/main concern
corporate law or front office banking are safer bets; since the 2000 downturn,
consulting pay has not kept up with these industries.
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Advice to Jobseekers
Be proactive, and don't get disheartened if you are assigned to
a 'bad' role at first - remember no one steps out of university
with zero experience and starts advising CEOs!
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