QUOTE(zzz0507 @ May 29 2013, 02:17 PM)
You must be someone working for Accenture. Here's my situation.. I was once a trainee before, working in IT MNC. The in-house training tailored to groom the associates, specializing in 1 chosen technology (although you will also get to learn / gain other mixed skill set during the early phase of the training both technical and soft skills). I would say that the training was well structured, perfectly executed and if I were to attend the like, externally, it would be very costly. That's why I'm curious.. wonder how Accenture is conducting the 3-month traineeship? Will I get to learn new skills? Or continue doing the same? If it's the same set of skills that I have majored in, then why would I have to be 'trained' again rather than getting offered a permanent position? Remember as a trainee you'll get to earn no more than 2500. These are things I need to know, but unfortunately didn't get the response I expected from them.
Knowing what project is not a key criteria joining the firm but will definitely be beneficial to the new joiners. It gives you the peace of mind, knowing that they have something planned for you at least in the near future. Imagine when u had tendered the resignation notice for the company ur currently serving. What would u do next? Of course you would want to prepare urself before joining the new company. If u know nothing about the client, the project or the training, then how do u make good preparations?
1) An IT MNC has a very different type of org structure compared to a consulting firm. Unless that firm is only focused on one type of consulting area, e.g. SAP Consulting, Oracle Consulting. When it comes to scenarios such as that, yes, it is easy to set up a training facility and a set standard number of training schools, curriculum and duration and they can communicate that to you because they would know that you will be doing SAP/Oracle.
2) In consulting, multiple use of software and technology on projects across the globe. If a consulting firm interviews you for a traineeship, that means that your existing skillsets do NOT qualify you for a skilled interview in any particular area. There is a difference when you are trying to be hired in for any particular skillset or perhaps you are hired in to fill in a particular department.
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For example, a consulting firm may just be hiring additional staff, fresh, to bolster up their technology department. In the technology department, they need to fill resources in Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft technologies. So the number of slots is 6, 2 for each technology area and HR searches for multiple candidates in order to get a higher chance of hiring 6. When HR contacts the candidates, they can't tell the candidate which technology they will be trained in because until they get the response for enough candidates or a particular candidate has perhaps experience in one of the particular areas, it is very difficult to tell the candidate which technology he/she will be trained on.
3) In the consulting industry, some projects are not confirmed nor are some of the roles.
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For example, I run a microsoft technology consulting company. I am trying to win a project to setup a Sharepoint system for the Selangor Government. I know I don't have enough staff to staff the project hence during the project bidding phase, I start to hire new recruits in thinking that I might a good chance of winning the project. On the other hand, my other sales staff, is also bidding on a Microsoft Project Server system setup for another company and he also needs staff. There is a chance that I might not get the project with the Selangor Government and if I do recruit you in, I will then staff you on the other project.
The reason why some folks will try to hire before the project starts or confirmed is because if I only begin to look for staff after the project is won, I would probably be wasting valuable project time trying to hire resources and the overall project might be delayed.
Hence this is what I can assume is the case and my advise to you is to learn how to adapt. You mentioned that YOU would like to know what the next projects are coming. So if I were to tell you that there is a JAVA project, SAP project, Oracle project and Siebel project in the pipeline, would you go and prepare for ALL of them?
May 28 2013, 10:35 PM
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haha.. 
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