Accenture: An insider guide - Gymkhana

Analysts
On the Job
Analysts at Accenture come into a market unit and the Core Analysts Program
(CAP). After an initial 2-week training, when they might participate in a mock
client engagement, they get staffed with an industry group. The CAP affords
them the chance to develop core skills through plenty of training as well as onthe-job
experience. “We expect all analysts to go in and be information sponges.
We want them to be learning how we work, soaking everything up,” says one
insider.
After 12 to 18 months, they attend another round of training at Accenture’s campus
in St. Charles, Illinois. “We found that having the client experience earlier was
very helpful for our new analysts, to get on-the-job training,” said an insider in
recruiting.
Accenture’s business model revolves around throwing large numbers of people
into big projects where they focus on implementation and execution work. With
more seniority comes increased managerial responsibility, and ultimately, selling
the firm’s business to new clients. But at the start, analysts are considered the
“pack mules” of the consulting staff, says one insider. “You’ll do number crunching
and heavy analysis . . . rather than the high-level thinking—this is calculations,
building models, analyzing data line by line.”
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