It’s been a busy couple of weeks! Since my last update just before a big interview day in Miami, all of the groups I support have been to Boston, Dallas and Chicago for interview days. I’ll be in Dallas on Friday to kick off our February schedule. It is safe to say Accenture is back to "recruiting as usual" following the holiday season.

Today I’m sending off communications regarding approved offers and training the new contract recruiters joining my team – so exciting! Thinking about training brings to mind the topic of navigating the Accenture website for jobs. More often than one would think, I get questions on how to find a job on the Accenture website. Here are my suggestions for navigating the site:

Go to accenture.com then Select Careers then Select Search jobs then Select a Country…and you get a search page with this intro: “All the positions on this site are currently open. The easiest way to search for open jobs is to use the basic search options below. To conduct a more detailed search, click on Show Advanced Search for additional search options.” Following the ‘intro’ paragraphs you get these search options:

JOB: General Functional Area

LOCATION: State/Province - City

ORGANIZATION: Workforce

And then there is a box for Keyword or Job Number search

Now this all seems pretty straight forward right? Well….here is some information on the different search areas:

JOB: General Functional Area – now this is straight forward. If you are looking for a Recruiter position you select ‘Human Resources’, a Receptionist position you select ‘Office & Facilities…’, for a SAP analyst role you select ‘ERP’, etc.

LOCATION: State/Province – City – this area appears straight forward but may not be the best way to search for jobs. Some of the positions with Accenture are location negotiable. Another thing to note is that when a positing is set up, locations are selected by a recruiter. If the recruiter does not open a position to all location appropriately a position may not come up in your location search. For example, if my position is open for Business Intelligence Consultants across the US in several locations I should open my position to US locations and then make selections for the city locations. If I open my positions to just the locations - entering Chicago, Dallas, Houston and San Francisco – by entering the locations in this order it will look like my position is just open in Chicago when this is not the case.

ORGANIZATION: Workforce – now this section is NOT straight forward. In order to use this function a person has to know how Accenture is organized internally. Unless you have a friend that works at Accenture (and understands every group) you may not be able to use this search portion effectively. I would suggest reading info on accenture.com to find out more about these areas before using this feature (Accenture Technology Solutions/Consulting/Internal Operations – Enterprise/Outsourcing for Accenture Clients - Services).

Keyword or Job Number search – Okay, now this is the best section to use. I think this search area is best since you can type any combination of words. For example, when I type the skill ‘Cognos’ 33 jobs come up in a list.

One very important change was made to the Accenture site a few months back. All positions are now listed in alphabetical order by title when a search is conducted. Keep in mind that the best match position is not necessarily at the top of the list!

I hope you find this information help! Until next time… Tara