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Recognition for Being a Great Employer

Accenture employees aren't the only people recognizing Accenture as a terrific place to build a career. The recognition Accenture receives reinforces the value we place on our people and their personal and professional growth.

Learn more about the recent recognition we've received:

FORTUNE magazine’s 100 Best Companies to Work For
  • In 2011, Accenture received 100 out of 100, a perfect score, on the 2012 Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index (CEI) for the fifth year in a row. The CEI is intended to help corporate diversity leaders stay at the forefront of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender workplace equality. Accenture has also been included on the Human Rights Campaign’s “Best Places to Work for LGBT Equality” list for the fifth consecutive year. This award recognizes companies for their employment policies and practices that include LGBT workers and their families. Accenture was also featured as one of the "Businesses That Offer at Least One Transgender Inclusive Health Care Coverage Plan."
Best Places to Work for LGBT Equality
  • In 2011, Great Place to Work Institute ranked Accenture No. 20 on its inaurgural World's Best Multinational Workplaces list, which is the world's largest annual study of workplace excellence and management practices.
Great Place to Work: World's Best Multinational Workplaces
Working Mother: 100 Best Companies
  • Accenture ranked No. 49 (up from No. 53 in 2010) on Hispanic Business' Diversity Elite 60 list in 2011, marking our second consecutive appearance (2010-11). 
  • Accenture ranked among the Top 15 for the third year in a row, ranking No. 12 overall on Consulting Magazine's Best Firms to Work for in 2011; also ranked No. 4 in the Multi-Service category and No. 9 in Career Development, marking our fourth and third consecutive category appearances, respectively. Read more about Accenture’s recognition in Consulting Magazine.
  • Accenture ranked No. 18 on the 2011 CareerBliss Leap Awards, with a "Bliss rating" of 4.074, a 5.74% hapiness increase from 2010.
  • Accenture ranked No. 6 in the inaugural Australian Workplace Equality Index in 2011.
  • Accenture ranked among Fortune.com's Top 100 MBA Employers for the past six years (2006-11).
  • Accenture's Kristina Gilbert, senior executive-Strategy, was included on Diversity MBA's 2011 Top 100 Under 50 Diverse Executive Leaders list. In 2010, Accenture’s Dwight Hutchins, managing director-Strategy, was selected as one of DiversityMBA’s Top 100 Under 50 Diverse Executive Leaders.
  • For the third year in a row (2009-11), Accenture was recognized as one of the top employers in South Africa by CRF Institute on its South Africa's Best Employers Top 10 list.
  • CRF Institute also included Accenture in Italy among 32 companies awarded and certified as top employers in 2011.
  • Accenture included on Great Place to Work Institute’s India’s Best Companies to Work For list in 2011.
  • Accenture ranked No. 14 on Great Place to Work's Best Workplaces in Europe list  (2011).
  • Bloomberg BusinessWeek's/Universum’s Ideal Undergraduate Employers 2011 (formerly Hottest Employers) student survey ranked Accenture No. 38 in IT, No. 71 in Engineering and No. 74 in Business for the fifth year in a row (2007-2011).
  • Experience.com included Accenture in its 2011 Best Places to Work for Recent College Grads list for the third year in a row (2009-11).
  • Accenture ranked No. 9 overall in the The Times' 2011-2012 Top 100 Graduate Employers list, which has highlighted Accenture as a top 10 graduate employer for eight consecutive years (2004-12).
  • DiversityMBA ranked Accenture No. 2 (up from No. 3 in 2010) on its 2011 50 Out Front Best Places to Work list honoring the best companies for diverse managers, both for diversity representation, retention and accountability, as well as programs that benefit female and diverse employees.
  • Accenture received a 2011 Learning Elite Award from Chief Learning Officer magazine, ranking No. 5 overall.
  • Accenture made its inaugural debut on the National Association of Female Executives' (NAFE) 2011 Top Companies for Executive Women list.
  • Accenture ranked No. 16 on The Times of London’s 100 Best Companies 2011 list of 25 Best Big Companies.
  • In 2011, Il Sole 24 Ore ranked Accenture as one of the 32 Top Employers in Italy.
  • In 2011, Accenture was recognized as the Most Desired Company to Work For in Spain by jobandtalent.
  • Accenture received a Recruiting Excellence Award for Best Employee Referral Program in 2011 from ERE.
  • In 2011, Diversity Employers magazine (formerly Black Collegian magazine) ranked Accenture No. 20 (up from No. 22 in 2010) on its “Top 100 Employers List for the Class of 2011.” Accenture has been on this list continuously since 2003; the list highlights the hiring targets for companies in the United States.
  • In 2011, Accenture ranked No. 49 among Fortune's Top 50 World’s Most Admired Companies and maintained its No. 2 position in the Information Technology Services category; it ranked No. 9 in the People Management category. This ranking marks Accenture’s ninth consecutive year on the list (2003-2011).
  • Accenture ranked No. 23 in 2011 on DiversityInc's "Top 50 Companies for Diversity" list marking our fifth consecutive appearance in the Top 50 and third consecutive year in the Top 25. DiversityInc is a leading resource for professionals on diversity and benchmarking practices.
DiversityInc's "Top 50 Companies for Diversity"
  • In 2011, Accenture was ranked No. 42 on DiversityBusiness.com’s Div50 ranking of "America’s Top Organizations for Multicultural Business Opportunities.”
  • Accenture has been named as a top 100 gay-friendly corporate employer in the United Kingdom according to Stonewall's Workplace Equality Index (2006-2011).
  • In 2011, Accenture was named as the Overall Top Employer and the Top Employer for Commitment and Development on Workingmums’ inaugural Top Employer Awards.

 

2011 HRC Best Places to Work

World's Most Attractive Employers
  • In 2010, Accenture was ranked No 8. in Finland and Sweden in Financial Times’ 50 Best Large Workplaces in Europe in 2010. In 2009, Accenture (Finland, Ireland and Sweden) ranked No. 8 among Best Workplaces in Europe. Accenture (Belgium, Finland, Ireland, Sweden) ranked No. 18 among large EU companies in Financial Times' Best Workplaces in Europe/UK, and in 2007 Accenture in Ireland was included on the Best European Workplaces list.
  • Accenture was named the Top Company for Generational Communications by DiversityInc (2010).
  • In 2010, Accenture in Japan won Toyo-Keizai’s 3rd Diversity Management Award for actively promoting female executives.
  • NPO J-WIN, the largest nonprofit organization focused on diversity in Japan, recognized Accenture with a Diversity Award in 2010.
  • Accenture ranked No. 1 among the Best Workplaces in Finland in 2010 by the Great Place to Work institute in the large enterprise category for the fourth time in a row.
  • InfoWorld's 2009 InfoWorld 100 recognized Accenture for the best Unified Collaboration Initiative. In 2008, Accenture was recognized for its Borderless Workplace initiative and honored as a Top Ten finalist.
  • Career Communications Group chose Accenture as winner of the Congress of Diversity Executives Leadership in Diversity Award (CODY) for Leadership From The Top in 2009.
  • Richard Clark, managing director-Investor Relations, was selected as the 2009 Trailblazer Award winner by Out & Equal Advocates. The Out & Equal Workplace Awards honor individuals and organizations that are leaders in advancing equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) employees in America’s workplaces.
  • Accenture UK ranked in The Times of London’s and Aurora’s Top 50 Companies Where Women Want to Work for the past four consecutive years (2006-09). See the full supplement. In 2008, Accenture was also recognized for having the "Best Internal Corporate Event” for its International Women’s Day celebration, which included live events for employees and clients as well as an online celebration for Accenture's employees around the world.
  • Accenture in India won the Golden Peacock National Training Award for 2009, instituted by the Institute of Directors. The award encourages total quality in training to recognize organizations judged to have made the most significant achievement in such endeavors.
  • In 2009, Human Resources magazine Reported that in a survey of 24,500 graduates, Accenture was voted as an employer with the best corporate social responsibility policies.
Accenture woman/child advertisement
  • Accenture ranked No. 11 on Business Week's"Best Places to Launch a Career" and has been included for the past four consecutive years (2006-2009). Accenture is also included on Business Week's  list for the second year in a row (2007-2008).
  • Working Mother’s Best Companies for Multicultural Women included Accenture on its 2009 list .
  • The National Business Group on Health in the United States recognized Accenture among its "2009 Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles" for promoting a healthy workplace and helping employees and their families make better lifestyle choices about their own health and well-being.
Best Places to Launch a Career
  • Accenture has been recognized as one of the Top 50 Best Workplaces in Ireland by the Great Place to Work Institute for the third year (2007-2009). Accenture also received an “Outstanding Achievement” award in the area of Collaboration.
  • Leadership Excellence ranked Accenture No. 3 among Large Consulting Groups on the 2008 - 2009 “Top Leadership Development Programs” list, up from No. 8 on the 2007-2008 list.
  • For five consecutive years, Accenture female employees have been named as high-flyers in Management Today's list of 35 Women Under 35 (2005-09).

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