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Contents

2Welcome

3-4What we do

5-6Our

organisation7-14

Our Graduate Programme

17A new home

for innovation

18Leaders of Tomorrow

Award19

Biometrics Face Recognition

About Us

Graduates

Our Culture

What’s New

20RBS 6 Nations

21-22A culture like

no other

23-24A place for everyone

25-26Spreading

good around the globe

Apply27-28Apply zone

Interns15-16

Our Internship Programme

About Us

Hello and welcome! We’re pleased you’ve decided to learn more about Accenture, and hope this brochure gives you a good idea of the rewarding career you could start building with us.

If you’re keen to find out more about how to evolve yourself and your career with Accenture, you’ll find a wealth of additional information online.

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About Us

We hire the best people, people like you, to help our clients achieve their aims – be it increasing profits, gaining a greater market share, redefining strategies or offering better customer experience.

There are hundreds of reasons why clients seek out our consultancy and technical expertise. But what exactly does consulting involve?

Clients come to us because they have a business challenge that needs solving or they want to explore ways to be more efficient and successful. How they achieve their goals will be down to you. It’s all about developing innovative answers to a variety of complex business problems and turning high-level theory into action – making

the most of technology to transform and improve how an organisation works.

Our clients include some of the biggest names in just about every industry you can imagine – delivering the high performance and technology that enables businesses to grow and evolve. Put all this together and you’re left with an exceptional place to build a career – and a place we’re looking forward to sharing with you.

What we do

employees in Ireland

of the Fortune Global 100 are clients

94

employees in over 120 countries

375,000

in over 120 countries

We operate in more than

We have

of the brightest graduates every

year

Voted Best

Consulting Employer

in the Gradireland Awards since

2011

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200 cities2,200

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Accenture is all about variety. Our clients cover 4,000 companies in over 120 countries. And to handle the broad spectrum of challenges they face. Our business also needs to be diverse – which is why we’ve set up our organisation across five business areas. If you’re looking for a range of exciting opportunities and experiences that can build a multitude of skills, then there’s no better place to kick-start your career.

Our organisation

How do businesses transform? Where should they be going? How can they get there? Accenture Strategy helps our clients set out their goals for the future and shapes how they can achieve it.

With the insights to transform companies and the capabilities to actually do it, we work in partnership with our clients to help them become better businesses.

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About Us

Digital is essential for every business. With industry-leading professionals and a host of digital expertise, Accenture Digital helps clients unleash the power of digital to help them transform.

New technologies arrive on the market at an incredible pace. We investigate and explore every one of them – helping innovate, grow and improve their businesses.

Accenture Operations uses process expertise and deep industry knowledge to help clients gain new insights that can help them work even better. We also manage transactional data and processes for many of them.

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Our Graduate Programme Benefits at a glanceJoin Accenture in Ireland as a graduate and you’ll find yourself on one of three career paths: Consulting, Analytics or Technology. Each path benefits from similar levels of early responsibility, fast-paced development and valuable training – which one you choose will be dependent on your personal preferences, academic background and career aspirations. This section gives you more detail on each path.

Aisling, Analytics

“I joined Accenture in 2015 as a management consulting analyst after

graduating from UCC with a degree in Finance. Since joining

Accenture, I’ve gotten involved in a number of clubs and societies, which has

resulted in trips abroad to Slovakia and Turkey as well as enabling

me to connect with other Accenture employees, both

at home and abroad.”

“I joined the Accenture Analytics Innovation Centre

after graduating from college with a degree in Mathematical Science from UCD. I wanted to

apply my mathematical and analytical knowledge in several industries [and] since

joining, I have worked on a wide variety of interesting and exciting projects;

ranging from the Financial Services sector to large

Internet clients.”

“As a self-taught programmer and Economics graduate from UCD, I joined

Accenture’s Software Engineering team in 2016. I was initially drawn

to Accenture by its broad spectrum of training and certification facilities. Since joining, I have worked on the technical

architecture team of a Major Public Service client, enabling me to

utilise both my degree and programming skills.”

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Graduates

Ann, Consulting

Ronan, Technology

Employee Discount Card

Two days’ paid leave for charity work

Early responsibility and fast-paced

career development

Personal career counsellor

Employee Assistance Programme

Private health insurancePaid overtime

26 weeks’ full-paid maternity or adoption leave

20 days’ holiday allowance

Support for professional

qualifications

Generous pension scheme

Access to training at Accenture

University

Health screenings every 2 years

€32,000 starting salary

Access to our clubs and societies

Flu vaccines

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Operating effectively within a global organisation requires a range of skills and experience. So throughout your career with us, you’ll receive continuous support and extensive development opportunities to help you build a fulfilling global career.

What we look for

You’ll need a minimum of 400 Leaving Cert points and a predicted 2:1 degree or equivalent. You can come from any academic discipline.

Training

Here, you’ll find a mix of excellent on-the-job experience and a combination of in-house and e-learning trainings at the Accenture Consulting University.

ConsultingThe Analyst Consulting Group, is the place to be to make a visible impact on your client projects – enjoying responsibility that will help you get ahead fast. The Analyst Consulting Group brings together training, peer group support and a diversity of live projects. The experiences you gain will help to equip you with the insights to deliver commercial benefits in management and technology consulting. After two or three years, you’ll be ready for promotion to the next level, where you’ll be in a position to decide where in the company your future lies.

Graduates

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A typical five-year Analyst Consulting Group career path:

Work with high-profile clients and contribute to projects. Make a visible impact on our business.

Increased responsibility, managing key milestones and leading a portion of a project. Develop and build key leadership relationship building skills. Begin to develop a more specialist focus.

Lead projects, manage teams and deliver client requirements. Use your experience to guide, support and provide valuable feedback.

Consultant

Manager

Analyst

In your first year, training will

include a two-day induction and one week training after

six months.

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AnalyticsGraduates

Our Analytics group is home to the data scientists of tomorrow. Here, we offer Analytics as a specialist stream within Consulting. We are the global centre within Accenture specialising in combatting fraud through analytics, but we are also aligned closely to our global Analytics capability of over 1,200 data scientists. This ensures you get all the benefits of the Consulting graduate experience, plus dedicated training, plus project and research assignments in areas including data management, visualisation, advanced analytics, cognitive computing and analytics strategy. We can offer unparalleled exposure to the wider world of analytics, while perfectly positioning you for a career path within our rapidly growing global Analytics group.

Training and development will be central to your experience here. That will take the form of a carefully designed balance of live project experience and intensive training at Consulting University. It starts with an induction in Dublin, to introduce you to the Accenture approach, consulting methodologies and your colleagues. You’ll then attend a two-day virtual instructor-led consulting course in preparation for being placed on a client site.

TrainingHere, you’ll find a mix of excellent on-the-job experience and a combination of in-house and e-learning trainings at the Accenture Analytics University.

What we look forYou’ll need a minimum of 400 Leaving Cert points and a predicted 2:1 degree or equivalent. To join us on the Analytics stream you must have a numerate background, specialty in the areas of maths, statistics, engineering, physics or econometrics an advantage.

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A typical five-year Analytics career path:

Work with high-profile clients on their analytics journey and contribute to advanced projects in areas such as data engineering and analytical model development.

Increased responsibility, managing key milestones and leading a portion of analytics projects. Develop and build key leadership relationship building skills.

Lead advanced analytics projects, manage teams to help them achieve insight from data and deliver value to clients. Use your experience to guide, support and provide valuable feedback to your team.

Consultant

Manager

Analyst

Training includes a two-day induction

and two weeks’ training in the first

six months.

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Technology

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Graduates

A typical five-year Technology career path:

Gain on-the-job experience with real life clients, plus advanced in-house training. In this Technology Delivery role you’ll develop skills in methodologies to help you work efficiently in a global organisation.

Managing the hands-on technology work that ensures Accenture delivers innovative technology solutions to clients.

Use fresh thinking, experience and a positive, results-oriented approach to lead your team of technology experts.

Senior Analyst

Team Lead or

Specialist

Manager

TechnologyAnalyst

Training includes a two-day induction

and six weeks’ training in your

first year.

As a Technology Analyst, you’ll have the scope to work across a range of industry sectors, on anything from client delivery to technical/systems architecture and application development to software testing.

You’ll become part of a team focussed on Technology Delivery working with some of the world’s best-known companies – household names at the front of their field in virtually every industry. We help clients implement concepts and solutions to improve their businesses, using leading-edge technologies.

And because Accenture has over 150 strategic alliances with market leaders like Microsoft, Siebel, SAP and Oracle, you’ll be developing new technologies way beyond the reach of any single enterprise. You’ll develop best in-class technical skills as you take on challenging project work – designing, building and supporting solutions for clients. Depending on the nature of the project, you could find yourself working with technologies such as Java, C#, AWS, Machine Learning Protocols, and Hadoop among others. Accenture is also researching advancements in the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence for particular clients.

TrainingHere, you’ll find a mix of excellent on-the-job experience and a combination of in-house and external courses. When you begin your role with the Technology Analyst group, you will be given extensive training within the Technology Graduate School that will look at areas of Design, Development, Testing and Deployment that will prepare for the diverse projects ahead.

What we look forYou’ll need a minimum of 400 Leaving Cert points and a predicted 2:2 degree or equivalent. To join us as a Technology Analyst, you’ll need a degree in any of the relevant areas of computer science, maths, science and engineering. Strong technical abilities are also important.

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Our Internship ProgrammeInterns

The best way to find out what it’s like to work at Accenture is to try it out. We have a range of placement durations between three and twelve months. This really is a great opportunity for you to get to know us, while developing your skills and knowledge on live projects, experiencing real challenges and making new friends and connections.

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Training and Development Once you join us as an intern, you will become part of our official intern development programme which allows you the opportunity to set your own objectives and drive your performance in soft skills, knowledge, applications and abilities. Review sessions throughout your internship will track your progress against your targets and open up further opportunities to maximise your potential during your time with us.

What we look for To join our Internship Programme, you need to have over 400 Leaving Cert points and be on track for a 2:1 in your degree.

“An Internship with Accenture offers an excellent

opportunity to learn about and experience the latest technology

trends. We use the best development practices in the industry in an innovative

and professional environment. There are plenty of social events where you meet new people and build a professional network as well as having

fun. I’m also part of the University Action Team, which involves attending career

fairs, speaking to students and working on the logistics of the

career events.”

Dana,Technology

Intern

Winner of the 2015 Gradireland

‘Best Internship Programme’

award

90% of our interns go on to permanent

positions

Our interns travel to London for an Innovation

Centre tour

We hire 40 interns every

yearAll internships

are paid

During your time with us, you’ll see first-hand why Accenture is such a great place to work, and how much we want you to succeed. You’ll receive a generous salary and the opportunity to automatically progress directly to the final interview stage of our Graduate Programmes. Plus there’s a big social aspect to it all – meaning you’re certain to have a great time inside of work and out.

Our Internship Programme are open to Third Level Students in their penultimate year of study. All Accenture Ireland placements can be applied for through your careers office, with the exception of our three-month Summer Internship which you can apply to online.

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Ten years of great business ideas.

For the last decade we’ve been looking for students and recent graduates to be the Leaders of Tomorrow. Designed to identify and support entrepreneurs with a business idea, the Leaders of Tomorrow take part in a series of development days based on one-to-one mentoring and workshops in topics such as leadership, digital innovation and entrepreneurship. The finalists in the competition will then have the opportunity to pitch their business proposal to a panel of Irish business leaders.

The winner of the competition will receive a place on the NDRC LaunchPad accelerator programme and jet off for the Leadership and Innovation Tour to an Accenture Global Innovation Centre. Not to mention the option of a six-month internship with Accenture.

Leaders of Tomorrow Award

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Dublin’s new Innovation Centre is launched.

In September 2015 we launched our new design–led Innovation Centre, in the heart of the Dublin Docklands.

Who We Are

A multidisciplinary research and incubation Centre that develops solutions to some of society’s most complex issues.

What We Do

Channel a combination of Accenture’s capabilities to create combinatorial innovation.

How We Do It

Bringing three disciplines together to accelerate the innovation cycle.

A new home for innovation

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The world’s biggest rugby tournament – in the palm of your hand.

If you’re into rugby, the RBS 6 Nations Championship should need no introduction. As well as being one of the most riveting tournaments in the sporting calendar, it’s also an event where you’ll find us delivering digital innovation and expertise.

For several years now, we’ve been the Official Technology Partner of the Championship – demonstrating our digital credentials in a truly unique way.

Over the past three Championships, users from over 150 countries have downloaded

and updated the Accenture designed official Championship mobile app more than 2.6 million times.

And in 2014, thanks to Accenture Analytics experts processing more than 1.9 million rows of data during every match, fans were able to access unique, real-time insight such as player head-to-head statistics and match momentum trackers on the mobile app. Proof that when it comes to rugby, we’re always on the ball.

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RBS 6 Nations

Technology, travel and Accenture expertise.

Biometrics Face Recognition

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With growth in world air travel averaging five percent per year over the past 30 years, the airline industry can’t afford to fall behind when it comes to keeping customers safe and secure. Happily, that’s where we’ve been able to apply our deep technological expertise.

In fact, there’s every chance you’ve experienced our innovations first-hand – not least if you’ve travelled through Heathrow Terminals 1, 4 and 5, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol or Dublin Airport Terminal 1.

After all, the banks of automated e-Passport gates you’ll see there were introduced by Accenture. In Dublin Airport we worked with the Irish Naturalisation Immigration Service and An Garda Síochána to deliver a pilot for the first national self-service passport control system. The technology that underpins them – from fingerprint identification and iris scanning to facial recognition systems – was all built and implemented by Accenture Biometrics too. It’s another great example of how our work doesn’t just transcend borders; it keeps them secure, too.

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A culture like no other

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Our Culture

Rugby Club

Startup Club

Golf Society

Running/ Triathlon Club

Climbing/Mountaineering

Club

Surf Club

Accenturephonics Choir

Sailing Club

Hockey Club

Racket Club

Food and Drink Society

Cumann Gaelach

Soccer Club

Pilates Club

Ski & Snowboard Club

PhotographyClub

Toastmasters

RowingClub

Escapades/ Vibe social Club

GAA Club

And key to it all is our culture. Ours is one that’s bright, open and completely focused on helping our people get the best results they possibly can. As well as working hard and delivering great service to our clients, we always take the time to celebrate our successes, recognise achievements and reward outstanding results along the way.

Something else we pride ourselves on is a strong team spirit. You’ll find a genuine sense of teamwork exists at Accenture, at every level. We help each other, share information, and encourage the team - as a whole - to reach higher, stretch further and achieve great things.

It’s not just in the office that you’ll discover people collaborating, either. We’ve a wealth of clubs and societies where people on the same wavelength get together to do the things they love. Whether it’s the choir or cookery club, the rugby or the rowing team, you’re certain to find something that suits you and your interests.

And the figures speak for themselves. Our clubs and societies have over 1,600 members altogether – not bad going when you consider we’ve got around 2,200 people working here in Ireland!

Accenture people bring their whole selves to work, which is how we enable diverse communities to grow and flourish.

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A place for everyone

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We’re a GLEN

Diversity Champion

Our Culture

Delivering innovation to clients depends on a huge variety of skills and talents. For that reason, inclusion and diversity are fundamental to our culture.

At the heart of our approach is finding the best people. We coach and support their stimulating careers and recognise their work and results. This helps us to tap into new ideas and creativity that benefit our people and their communities – and ultimately helps our clients achieve high performance.

Throughout Accenture Ireland you’ll see examples of the importance we place on diversity. For instance, we’re a corporate leader in supporting LGBT employees and the broader LGBT community – one of the first companies to be formally recognised as a GLEN (Gay & Lesbian Equality Network) Diversity Champion in Ireland.

We’re proud of our community and support network for women in Accenture. This focuses on developing and retaining our female employees and increasing the profile of our senior women in the marketplace.

We’ve a solid range of initiatives that are improving disability confidence across Accenture Ireland too. But this really is just the tip of the iceberg – as you’ll discover when you go online and learn more.

GALAS LGBT

Employer of the Year

2015

We’re a Founding Partner in Silicon Republic’s Women Invent Tomorrow

initiative

Accenture has been the Lead Sponsor for

GAZE LGBT Film Festival

since 2012

Hosted the largest International

Women’s Day 2016 event in Ireland

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Spreading good around the globe

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Our Culture

Reduced our per employee carbon

emissions by

47% toward our goal of

50% by 2020

The number of consecutive years recognised among

Ethisphere’s World’s Most Ethical Companies

Awarded the Business Working Responsibly Mark for responsible and sustainable business practices in Ireland

Every Accenture employee gets 2 paid charity days a year

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Acting responsibly is absolutely central to our success as a high-performance business.

From closing employment gaps to advancing client sustainability, we embrace opportunities to make a sustainable, measurable difference around the world.

Take Skills to Succeed for instance: this Accenture initiative takes one of our core competencies – training talent – and applies it to the communities we serve. It focuses on helping young people not in education, employment or training to build the skills they need to find a job or start a business. Our goal? To work with our

partners to equip more than three million people worldwide with skills by the end of fiscal 2020. It’s an ambitious target – but our people have the energy, enthusiasm and passion to make it happen.

Our people volunteer their time and energy in a way that matches their own passions and interests - through participation in programmes such as volunteering, mentoring and pro bono projects – and help us achieve real impact in the communities where we work and live.

Set a goal to improve

energy efficiency by

30% by 2020

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Apply zone When it comes to completing an application form or attending an interview, we appreciate it requires a great deal of preparation. Here’s an easy-to-navigate guide to the process to help you put your best foot forward.

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GroupGot a question? Email

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Keep in touch

Applications open: 1st September 2016

Applications close: 21st October 2016

Assessment Centre: Start of November

Final interviews: End of November

Offers made in December

Timelines

Apply

Application

The application form is your chance to give us details of your experience, educational background, extra-curricular activities and most importantly, why you want to join Accenture. After submitting your online application, our screening team will review it and, if successful, you will be asked to do an online assessment.

Interviews

There are three rounds of assessments and interviews.

Online application

form

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1

3

4

Final competence based interview with an

Accenture Senior Leader

2-hour Assessment Centre with group activity and

skills interview

Consulting Graduate

Programme

Analytics Graduate

Programme

Advanced online technology assessment

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