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James
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I want to apply for a graduate job at Accenture working in I.T.

They ask for a 2:1 degree and 300 UCAS points

I only have 240 UCAS points as I did a Cisco CCNA instead of a 4th A-Level.

Are companies really strict about this stuff? Are they likely to throw my application straight into the bin thinking ive not read the requirements?

cheers
James
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By the way the degree wont be a problem as im on track for a 2:1
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Can't answer your question mate but i've looked at they graduate jobs.
Look very good.
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They can normally be quite fussy (they were with me), but definitely give it a shot as the CCNA will definitely redeem you

Ever thought about the financial services IT industry (they pay better than Accenture)?
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I'm not really sure to be honest Tim, I like the idea of travelling around working at different companies but i'd like to do mainly .Net based web development.

When I graduate i'll have had a years worth of experience doing the above for Barclays but finding somewhere that pays good money for .Net developers seems to be tricky as everyone does .Net!!

Any ideas? Company suggestions?

Cheers

[Edited on 30-01-2006 by James]
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Well not Deutsche Bank then as there's no real demand for .NET (mainly J2EE at the moment), but you could move to BarCap in the City for more money etc?

Worth looking at UBS, Credit Suisse, JP Morgan, etc. Any of the IT analyst positions at investment banks will start around £35k basic + bonus (and it goes up pretty quickly too )

I'd also say it's worth looking at jobs with a more architectural role than pure development, as a lot of it gets outsourced (sorry, "smartsourced") to India...

[Edited on 30-01-2006 by Tim]
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Yeh i would be happy to do a more architectural role, I know only too well about development getting outsourced, thats why barclays wont keep me on

thanks for the help

 
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