Accenture?

[Hogan]

The Ronseal philosophy is what I told the agent

I know from talking to the guys I'd be working with that they need people for 6-12 months. What I'm keen to know is if this 3 month thing really is a common thing to do with purchase orders etc. or if I'm being led up the garden path.

I need to decide pretty sharpish what to do - my gut instinct is that there's a lot of work to be done there so I might as well bite the bullet.

[oxtailsoup]

3 months Vs 6 is irrelevant as you'll be on a weeks notice anyway. Depending on the project/industry/role you should be able to get a feel for whether it's 3 months work or not.

Exactly. My role is likely to be 12 months minimum. It is verbally agreed as 12 months (as safe as the paper its written on). However the contract is for 3 months and they have a 28 notice period (I have a 7 day notice period).

But as you say you should get a good feel for the project within a month. In my case it will be much longer than 3 months unless they bin the project which would cause the client endless problems with dependent projects.

[Mustang]

Not worked for them but, in my current contract, I am working alongside them. I therefore dont know what pay, T&C's, etc are like but I can comment on what I see and that is: -

* Work long hours
* Spend a lot of time on clients sites - meaning away from home and in hotels
* Only get taught how to use Excel and Powerpoint (advanced level)
* Have to have an endless supply of double cuffed shirts and cufflinks
* Need to sound as if you come from public school
* Need to operate in JFDI mode all the time
* Openly discuss hotel bonus points and airmiles at lunch

Erm, that's about it - will update if any more spring to mind.

[Denny]

[QUOTE=oxtailsoup]Exactly. My role is likely to be 12 months minimum. It is verbally agreed as 12 months (as safe as the paper its written on). However the contract is for 3 months and they have a 28 notice period (I have a 7 day notice period).

[QUOTE]

No Accenture engaged contractor has a client notice period of that length. Even if your own contract with the agency says so. It's strictly 24 hours for the first month, 1 week from weeks 4-8 and 1 month after 3 months. Accenture HR Services do all the recruiting, so if you were hired via the agency through that route you need to be forwarned about this.

[n3il123]

Worked for Anderson Business Consulting a "long" time ago and it was all very flash but the people were "mostly" w4nkers and what they produced was far far worse ...

[interested]

Worked for Anderson Business Consulting a "long" time ago and it was all very flash but the people were "mostly" w4nkers and what they produced was far far worse ...

ABC was the consulting part of Arthur Andersen, which competed with what is now Accenture. In fact ABC was the cause of the court case in 1999.

[PropertyCrashUK]

I personally would not want them on my CV.

[Underscore2]

Accenture

I worked for them for 2 years as a permie. Went in as an experienced hire and help set up the India practice. Promoted after 7 months to a senior manager, then my rate was so high I ended up sitting at home for 9 months on full pay. So they offered me 6 months tax free to leave. NO PROBLEM. Started a contract a week later.

They work long hours, drink long hours, and dont expect hangovers. Its full of public school boys who know nowt and it shows. If you have a family dont expect to see them when you are on a job. The pay is great for a permie (I was on 80k + bonuses and that was over 3 years ago).

[ratewhore]

A contact of mine is a permie with them. Banged on and on about them for ages when he first joined less than 2 years ago. Now he's on his way as he's fed up with long hours and being away from home.

But thats the consultancy side of the business. Don't forget they do outsourced IT with some big accounts. I did a piece of work some years back for them and tbh, they were fine.

And I don't see anything wrong with having them on the CV...

[andyg]

Accenture?

Is this based in Warwick?