Acners...Have any of you heard anything about mid year promotions - is there a blanket ban on them given the current economic climate?It has all gone remarkably quiet. Has anybody got confirmation yet?

This coming week you will be informed of it....understand that the promotion will only be A to C and nothing more....then the normal rank and yank as well as another round of redundancy in June if the market does not pick up

I heard that 'tell day' is being pushed back several weeks to mid March. Anyone heard a similar tale?I also don't believe there will be many promotions. I think only those that got a 'top' rating will go up!

I thought promotions would apply from 1 March - if that is correct how can tell day be delayed until after March?

Why talking about Acn in a management consulting forum?

Because they are the bestest management consultancy in the whole wide world!!! Just ask tiger woods!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

if they are the "bestest" then...

Again with the rumors. They have to tell us before the end of next week - confused is right. I've heard everything from Wed 18th Feb to Fri 27th Feb as being 'tell day'. Will have to wait and see. And yes, it will be very tough and only a few at the top will be lucky enough to get through.

Last year it was Tue 26th Feb. In 2005 it was Thu 24th Feb. ...and caveat with the boilerplate "Past performance should not be used..."Personally, I think there will be redundancies, but they will be induced by global reviewing the 2nd quarter submissions from the UK geo unit, and giving the order to take action. I believe they call this "pulling the rigth levers". So in terms of timing, question is how quickly after quarter-end is global able to review results. As the Analyst call is held approx 20 days after quarter end, I think we should see come activity about two weeks into March. By then HR will have some time on their hands having finished the mid-year promotions stuff.If they do it on a Friday like last time, that would put us on Friday 14 March. Just a guess...

Do what on MArch 14th?What do you mean analyst call?Sorry for any confusion.

stop polluting this site with acn threads. Go to top IT consultants for this.

Nobody asked you to read this thread. And if you weren't such a complete you would know that the two sites share the same forum.

Enthusiastic Grad. - keep up with being naive that "Acn...the bestest management consultancy in the whole wide world".Hope the sooner you wake up and reality and gain some insight into consulting industry and experience the better and faster you'll grow to realise that Acn isn't best in the world and it engages Tiger for marketing purposes. Reality is that if a firm is really that good, the firm doesn't have to spend a cent to engage sportsmen/women for advertising and marketing as clients will approach the firm on their own accord and spread the good service by word of mouths.

I see your sarcasm meter is broken. ACN can fix that for you, they are the bestest consultancy in the whole wide world after all.

Who cares how prestigious ACNare, the birds are well fit here!

And Postgrad go and learn some English before you come back on this forum...ouch!..

And Postgrad go and learn some English before you come back on this forum...ouch!..

Any news on Acn mid year promotions?

Why the h*ll would ACN or any other company (not just consulting) do a round of mid-year promotions ? In general most markets around the globe are still going down, less projects are being sold, etc. Better not do any promotions, postpone them till end of next year and hope the market is a bit more predictable (and more projects in the pipeline).

Can someone confirm fitness of Acn birds?

Confirmed - ACN well fit birds & well fit EAs

Definately a case of quality, not quantity. So, which work enviro would you choose: a) 60% birds, averaging 50% fitness rating b) 20% birds, averaging 80% fiteness rating?

I'd choose 60% birds averaging 50% fitness as it lends itself better to my 'play it by number' pulling strategy.

Tell day is 25th.

Sooooo.....Anybody heard yet? Even though tell day isn;t until tomorrow I thought there might be a few early birds.If you have heard and it was good news, what rating/payrise dod you get?

Anybody heard yet?

a) out of 100 birds 30 would be fitb) out of 100 birds 16 would be fitSurely an easy decision....

Its a sliding scale - not binary.

Listen Shrek, since you don't know the difference between your and you're you probably can't speak very well so the upper quartile wouldn't be within your reach anyway. You'd be better off having less good looking birds and more of them than a few hotties you wouldn't stand a chance with.

So is today 'Tell Day' or not? Why is Accenture being so cloak and dagger at the moment!!!!If not - Does anybody know when tell day is please?

Apparently ‘tell day’ will be Friday and they are still challenging the % of people to be promoted. It might only be the top 17% or so - that is if they don’t decide just to can the whole March promotion round.

Its a tough one for the UK geography to argue with global leadership: "We want special treatment to allow mid-year promotions, even though we're under performing all other geographies at the moment..."But hey, at least the UK leadership is trying.

Nobody heard yet?Guessing tomorrow really has to be tell day then

If you work for accenture you will have got the mail we were sent today

what did the email say?

That tell day is tomorrow - got it about 10 secs after my initial post

Is this what they call "High performance"?

Anyone heard? Today is the day?Significantly Above only promoted?

Only 'top' got promoted. And only those time eligible i.e. No accelerated promotes.Rubbish.

A lot of very p*ssed off analysts at acn right now :(

Top of the ladder = no promotion in my case - just acknowledgement that am comfortably performing at manager level and that should be patient.

Completely agree with previous poster.Top rating but not promoted. Why go through the process of accelerated promotion if there aren't any. Of course the excuse will be the global downturn which does have validity, but why p**s off the best performers for what in financial terms is small fry to the firm. Very odd behaviour.Motivation - well there really isn't any for me at the moment. Meritocracy??? If I'm performing above my level why am I not rewarded for it.They have royally messed this one up!

Top but not promoted...and the feedback was that i just need to continue what i am doing hahahaha men i need another job out of UK even not in the UK.This is just absolute BS.....

What you are complaining about is whether you get a promotion or not ! Look around you - Consulting is about to go into meltdown, Bearingpoint have just gone t*ts up, EDS have given staff a pay cut. And being at the top your unlikely to appear on ACN's sh*tlist anytime soon.