Welcome to "The MBA Alumni Ascent".
This Podcast Series is aimed at understanding the lives of alums from top business schools. Through this, we would like to help our viewers gain an understanding of different career paths. Everyone has their own unique journey and this podcast is an attempt to bring out some of the stories to help you gain perspective.
In this episode, Yaman Arora is our guest.
He is from Delhi and is currently working at Accenture in a Management Consulting role for over 3.5 years now. He graduated from ISB in 2021. His previous work experience includes Technology Consulting at PwC. He has a Bachelor's degree from DTU.
We deep-dived into consulting at Accenture, key trends impacting consulting industry (including Gen AI) and Yaman's personal life.
This episode is also now on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1ZWvxdiVvxIJvSy6juIGWa?si=IMW_SDf3QAOlwog5tr1MMQ
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Chapters:
00:00 Podcast Intro
00:50 Yaman's Intro
01:22 Yaman's Accenture role
06:15 Work culture at Accenture Consulting
08:45 Handholding process for a fresher in Consulting
11:17 Career progression at Accenture Consulting
15:02 3 Years and counting at Accenture Consulting
16:45 Key consulting trends and its impact on campus hiring
27:55 Salaries at Accenture Consulting
30:04 Yaman's upbringing and pre-MBA journey
35:01 Why consulting post MBA?
36:02 Yaman's goals and motivations
37:46 Impact of Gen AI in consulting
46:00 How to deal with failures?
48:00 What would you tell your pre-MBA self?
49:00 Conclusion