Why does Accenture keep hiring MBAs just to put them on tech / system implementation projects?!? What a total BS. I'm seriously about to contact my school's career office to warn them about this.

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I need people that can work on the intersection of business and technology - and it is proven that it is easier to grab a business-savvy person and upskill in Tech than the other way around. But if you were told that you will work only on M&A, budgeting and reorg projects, our recruiting didn't do a good job.

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I refuse to believe a 2 year MBA made all the difference in your life to make you qualified for strategy work. I hate when people generalize that only MBA folks can do strategy. Not every non MBA person is a tech coder. If you are smart enough you will pick up the skills regardless in a year or two. The bookish knowledge can't outweigh your practical experience, it helps sure . A lot of tech work also involves using ton of business brains and the MBA knowledge can help there too. So people need to get of the high horse that MBA s are only meant for strategy work.

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In addition to alerting the career office, you can also participate in recruitment events and be honest with the students there. 😈

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Be honest with your career office. The recruiting is such bullshit especially for analysts like OH WOW WE GET TO TRAVE....Oh wait regional model

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Are you sure it's not you? The top 90% percentile from my class are all in strategy.

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If you had an offer from a generalist firm, you probably would have taken it, right? Sounds like it was this or unemployment. #themarketisefficient

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@C2 - Wrong - I'll admit I fell for their sales pitch about being in the strategy practice and only working on c-level strategy work and national travel etc.

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@A2 - I disagree - I didn't get my MBA to "upskill" and learn about SAP or Oracle implementation. I like the "intersection" of business and tech play but that's not what a lot of these projects are. It's all tech requirement gathering and implementations. There are way more qualified tech people (probably cheaper) too for those roles - not MBAs (don't mean to sound conceited)

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The consulting culture starts in recruiting. All about sell sell sell. You gotta do your DD. #businessschool

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@M1 - it's not a what they are in... it's what projects they are on. Strategy is a joke - it's all tech consulting. I don't consider that strategy consulting. That's part of the deceit too. Accenture puts out this front about being aligned to Strategy but the work is all the same.

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Also why are we tearing each other down. We are at the same company for a reason. Support and empower other people. I got staffed on a long term implementation project my first day on the job at training...I didn't select this role and the bench was deep as heck. In fact I was the first analyst in my class to be staffed...on an implementation project. What do you say to that? Am I a high performer because out of 10 analysts I got staffed first? Or am I low performer because it's an implementation project? Also all you tooting your own horns have a bias of luck. Don't let the luck and timing be disregarded as what you perceive to be your solely own hard work and networking abilities.

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Sounds like you are either a) getting shafted or b) doing a shit job at networking and building relationships in the areas you're interested in. I've been here three years now since AS was created and have not once been on a tech / system implementation project. Depending on size of company, the relationships I've managed over the past two years have been csuite or business unit lead (2-10bn in rev) or vp level (50bn+). I know this isn't everyone's experience here, but from your posts above it seems like you are expecting to just be given projects like that without even proving you can handle it

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You have a MBA, your not special, go back to work.

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1. You didn't get into MBB and Accenture was your best pick 2. Nobody wanted to staff you on actual strategy projects

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ACN 4...why prove yourself when AS preaches that all project should be like C-Suite pure strategy work...

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@A4 - interesting... I guess there are always exceptions. A few years ago Accenture made a big push to grow out its strategy practice and poured a ton of money into poaching people from other firms into strategy, including hiring partners from the top consulting firms. At the same time it also gave out top offers to MBAs from top schools to bring them into strategy with lofty promises. I was part of that move. As you probably know that push didn't quite pan out and many of the senior hires were let go and even many MBAs were let go because there were very few strategy projects for them to work on. I guess I was lucky to not have been let go. So I'm happy that you've found your spot, but your case is quite the exception - it has nothing to do with staffing challenges etc

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Totally with you on this OP. It's total BS how the recruiting process over sells the job. The difference between what the job actually is and what it's advertised is too much in consulting. You wouldn't have such high rates of burnout if people enjoyed what they were doing.

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I believe the job is what you make it. If you read and create assets, people will constantly be asking to staff you. If you come with the MBA mindset of "make good on your recruiting promises and staff me on cool projects in cool places" you won't make it.

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I joined 3 years ago and have been on Strategy projects the entire time. Same with all of my friends from my ASCDP cohort and the following cohort. Sure, sometimes I don't like the work, and I occasionally don't like the analyses that I have to perform, but I would never get staffed on implementation. My (and your) LCR is too high for that. We wouldn't make any 💰. Based on your other posts in this thread, it seems like you might have a networking / attitude problem

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