We pride ourselves on enabling our people to get the most out of their work—and that they often stay with Accenture to build long-term careers. We provide long-term onsite opportunities through our Global Careers programme as well as leading-edge training and development. We also offer career counselling to help you decide where you want your skills to take you. Also, our competency assessment and performance management programmes will keep you updated with your own progress, as will our range of communication and feedback initiatives.
Each employee has an opportunity to build his/her career along three dimensions: technical/functional, project/Delivery management and industry specialisation. A career path is defined and development programmes are put in place to enable the employee to realise his or her career goal. We also periodically review the progress of the employee along the chosen career path. This is undertaken in collaboration with the employee, the supervisor and the career counsellor. To help realise their career goals, employees are provided with ample opportunities to move within or across our areas of business—Consulting, Technology and Outsourcing.
Career management at Accenture is a collaborative journey where we work with employees to help them realise their aspirations.
As part of a pace-based workforce, Technology people are expected to take on new challenges to advance and grow to new responsibilities. The career levels, combined with our capabilities and specialties, have been designed to help Solutions people develop the deep, market-relevant IT skills that our clients seek. Each level carries distinct skills and responsibilities.
The Global Careers Programme fulfils two goals. It provides employees with increasing opportunities to spend time at client sites around the world, thus giving them deeper insight into clients’ businesses, exposing them to global standards, and improving technology and implementation skills.
This programme also addresses better integration of onsite and offshore resources.
Whether you are a recent graduate or an experienced professional, regular career counselling will help you in your personal and professional development. Your dedicated career counsellor will spend time with you periodically to discuss your progress, understand your goals and guide you in drafting your personal development plan to help you achieve your goals. This blueprint for your future will help you focus on projects and skills that suit you best and the direction you need to take to facilitate long-term success.
Performance Management is one of our most important processes because it enables us to channel individual performance towards organizational goals, evaluate individual performance, coach our people in their development and reward them appropriately. This process also supports career development through the sharing of detailed performance feedback, which highlights an individual’s strengths and areas for development.
The performance management process is a shared responsibility between individuals, their supervisors and career counsellors. Career counsellors play a critical role in providing feedback and career guidance. However, every Accenture employee is responsible for taking ownership of his or her career development. This approach to performance management and career development encourages open and honest communication about strengths and development needs. It enables individuals to lead their career development in a direction that will be most meaningful to them.
In an organisation as big as ours, clear communication is vital. Therefore, if something happens, such as a change in personnel policy or in business direction, we make sure you know about it straightaway. We are also keenly interested in your point of view, so we build channels that enable you to provide and get feedback. Our Global Employee Survey is an annual opportunity for you to tell us how you feel about everything—training, rewards, culture, job satisfaction and so on. The Accenture Portal, an internal information site, has an area dedicated to employee feedback and discussion.