Best People

We develop employees and provide opportunities for growth in specific skills, as well as nurture them to become leaders at every level of their career.

Building a strong workforce by attracting and retaining the best talent is a priority for Accenture. Accenture in India has an unbeatable team of more than 60,000 people from a wide range of backgrounds who generate a continuous stream of new ideas every day. We employ diverse groups of people who have experience with the wide range of services the company offers. Accenture is one of the very few companies to have achieved the prestigious People Capability Maturity Model (People CMM®) Level 5 certification, the highest possible rating for personnel proficiency.

To ensure that the skills of the professionals are aligned to the highest industry standards, each Accenture professional devotes a minimum of 80 hours to formal training each year. Not surprisingly, Accenture’s career value proposition has great appeal in the Indian marketplace, attracting significant numbers of professionals who seek employment with us.

Accenture’s core values guide the environment in which our employees engage themselves.

• We strive to attract and develop the best talent for our business and community.

• We are proactive in making things happen as our people have a “can do” attitude and stretch their limits to achieve beyond the normal expectation.

• We create positive energy and give people confidence in what they can achieve.

• We empower people to overcome obstacles rather than wait for someone else to solve their problems.

• Instead of over directing our people, we set clear performance objectives while allowing them to influence key decisions affecting their professional development.

• We call on each of our people to take primary responsibility for their own destiny and ensure their skills remain market and company relevant.

• Accenture receives Asia’s Best Employer Brand Awards for Talent Management and Excellence in Training in 2010, awarded by the Employer Branding Institute and CMO Asia, in partnership with the CMO Council, Singapore. The awards were to recognize Accenture’s competency-based talent management practices and the capability development services delivered.

• Accenture ranks No.7 in the list of preferred employers in B-schools in India for 2010. The list is based on the ‘Nielsen Campus Track T-School’.

• Accenture is recognized among the top 5 companies in IT services and BPO for 2010. Recognized as part of the NASSCOM Diversity and Inclusivity Award.

• Accenture is rated as one of the top five employers for women in 2010 by India Today. India Today is a leading publication in India.

• The Accenture India HR Academy program is recognized by The Corporate University Xchange Learning Excellence & Innovation Awards for 2010.

• Accenture was ranked No. 16 in Business Today’s "Best Companies to Work For" Survey in 2010. Career and personal growth displaced compensation as the most important factors for deciding the best employer.

• Accenture won the inaugural Asian Human Capital Award for its competency-based talent management practices in India. The award was conferred by the Ministry of Manpower, INSEAD and CNBC Asia Pacific.

• Accenture ranks No. 18 in the list of 25 Outlook Business-Hewitt Associates Best Employers 2009: The list of 25 Outlook Business-Hewitt Associates Best Employers 2009 spanned 230 companies and is part of an annual global study that Hewitt Associates conducts every year.

• Accenture ranked as the Third Best Large Company (with more than 10,000 people) To Work For in 2009 in a study by the Great Place to Work Institute and Economic Times.

• Accenture received the NASSCOM Diversity and Inclusivity Award for excellence in gender inclusivity among BPO companies for 2009.

• The Golden Peacock National Training Award for 2009, issued by Institute of Directors, recognizes excellence in training at Accenture. The award attributed Accenture’s unique approach to running learning like a business, innovative leverage of technology to address learning needs, clear demonstration of return on investment on learning & leading edge university partnerships.

At Accenture, our commitment to building, maintaining and expanding an inclusive culture is central to our organization’s ongoing success. As an organization with the best people, we recognize that bringing a variety of backgrounds and perspectives to the table generates the best ideas and innovation. These diverse qualities enable, deliver and drive high performance at Accenture.

Our approach to inclusion and diversity stems from a two-fold desire: to live and work in one world, free from the constraints of geographical barriers or cultural perceptions, and to seek innovative practices that help employees achieve work-life balance. Accenture, therefore, seeks to recruit, retain and advance women globally as we continue our focus on multi-culturalism and embedding flexibility into our culture and business operations worldwide.

The Accenture India Talent Supply Mapping study—leveraging talent potential to drive high performance [PDF 385.57 KB]

Accenture globally has had women’s networking forums operating for years, run by and for our women employees largely as an empowerment forum. In India, our women’s networking platform is called "Vaahini," meaning "stream" or "flow."

With our women employees we recently opened up Vaahini to the women in our wider community to enable them to benefit from the empowerment and enrichment that our own employees gain from being part of this powerful network. The Accenture Vaahini Network will be both an online and in-person network.

Visit the Vaahini site and register today to be part of this network. In addition to the website, Vaahini will provide opportunities for women to come together and engage in social and professional networking.