Accenture Bootcamp
August 2, 2010Accenture invited a group of Careers Advisers to sample their bootcamp.
Bootcamp is a supercharged skills session that lasts for 3 days. Its purpose is to get students to experience what its like to be a consultant.
It includes a high-pressure business game called the Juice company, lots of networking with Accenture people, a psychometric instrument called the Hermann Brain Dominance Instrument and much more. It is a precursor to an assessment centre (if desired and approved).
This was the most interactive Careers adviser experience I have ever done. It was at an oak-paneled manor house in rural Oxfordshire- which sylvan setting is the very one they use for the students.
Accenture are upping their recruitment targets this year (240 and rising).
Quite a lot of the Accenture staff I met are working part-time, back from Maternity leave, joining after gap years travelling or working for charities. One Technology consultant was doing 3 days per week because he was caring for his ageing parent. This last little snippet – gathered while chatting and waiting for a bus, did more than anything else to impress me. A serious business which takes its people seriously.
Bootcamp is not easy to get on to but well worth the effort.
‘A serious business which takes its people seriously’… nicely put and paced. I do like Accenture and they are great supporters of King’s. We have them coming to our management studies careers forum in the autumn. I think it would be impolite to mention the chap called Arthur Anderson chained up in their oubliette