Recent grad - Help me decide on a full time offer!

chrisw
Tue, 19 Nov 2013 09:49:02 +0000

Congratulations on having three competitive offers from three top notch companies!

I can’t tell you where you should go, but your post sounds like you are personally leaning toward taking the Accenture offer… nothing wrong with that. One piece of advice I have is with regard to travel.

Travel isn’t for everyone. You don’t really get to see new places; you get to see office buildings in different places. Your clients aren’t always in big cities like New York or Chicago; often, states give great tax incentives for companies to locate in the middle of nowhere, so you will see random office parks in the middle of cow country (one of my clients is located two and a half hours from the nearest medium sized midwest city! haha). It can get very tedious to be out of town four days a week, every week.

That all said, some people love the travel involved in consulting; with Accenture, you will likely be traveling heavily, but it is a large enough company that you could probably figure out how to get away from the travel if you so desire in the future.

Good luck!