Job Description

Accenture Human Resources Apprentice- Deadline Tuesday September 6th, 2022 We are: Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries — powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. With 710,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises. Visit us at www.accenture.com. Join Accenture and help transform leading organizations and communities around the world. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance. Choose Accenture and make delivering innovative work part of your extraordinary career. At Accenture, you will explore your professional passions and develop market leading skills that will enable you to thrive no matter what your future career path holds. People in the Corporate Function career track contribute to the running of Accenture as a high- performance business through specialization within a specific functional area and grow into internally focused roles by deepening their skills and/or developing new skills within an internal functional area. Human Resources professionals develop and execute HR strategies, programs and services across one or more parts of the employee lifecycle to attract, develop and retain a highly engaged and differentiated workforce that enables the execution of human capital and business strategies. You are: Ready for on-the-job training. Interested in supporting Accenture's internal HR operations. You have always enjoyed learning new things and you’re excited to get hands-on experience in an innovative workplace. About the apprenticeship:

• An “earn and learn” program providing:
  • Salary, training, and real-world experience
  • Coaching to build skills at the entry-level position and advance your career
• A full-time, yearlong position with an opportunity to be retained at the end of the program
• Focused on candidates:
  • Seeking to enter an industry unrelated to their college major or previous work experience

The work: The HR Apprentice role will enable individuals to Jump Start, Grow and further Accelerate a career in Human Resources. The first year will consist of a rotation across two HR Tracks. Track 1: HR Partner Build deep personalized relationships with practice/HR leaders and our employees, and proactively support our people through their life, career and project experiences.

• Learn how to coach and guide employees on career development, based on a strong understanding of a person’s interests and aspirations and knowledge of Accenture’s business.
• Learn how to provide personalized employee support connecting people to projects, coaching people on “best fit” roles, balancing career goals and business priorities.
• Learn how to have honest and transparent conversations, with compassion and empathy to help people grow, keeping both personal and key practice priorities at the forefront.
• Work closely with HR and Practice Leads to understand our business/practice strategy and current performance and use that knowledge to help coach/guide your people.
• Work with HR team to understand talent priorities and talent programs and make employees aware of specific opportunities.
• Work closely with HR Colleagues to understand how the demand for talent is evolving.
• Ensure business critical employee information is up to date and accurate (Skills, myScheduling, Performance Achievement, etc.)
• Work with the Market Unit Employee Experience Lead to coordinate the Employee Experience in the practice, including engagement, feedback, coaching and learning.
• Work with the Market Unit Inclusion & Diversity Lead to develop and execute strategies and actions to achieve I&D objectives and measure the results and key trends in the practice.

Track 2: Talent Connector Talent Connectors are deeply familiar with all open staffing roles in their business area and identify ‘best fit’ candidates from across Accenture using skills as our common currency. This role helps connect ideal candidates to open roles, helping our projects to build best teams and our people to fulfill their aspirations.

• Stay up-to-date and work on open demand in Scheduling tools to connect our people to the open roles
• Connect with project executives to understand their skill needs, timing and to advise their candidate decisions
• Work with the HR Partners to better understand our people’s skills, aspirations and availability
• Ensure high quality demand data and accuracy of all assignments
• Monitor key staffing metrics and collaborate with our team to address gaps

Here's what you need:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Bilingual (English & French)
• English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with English-speaking stakeholders across Canada. Due to the significant high volume of interactions with these English-speaking stakeholders, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible to reorganize the company's activities to avoid this requirement.

Bonus points if you have:

• Associate’s Degree or 2 years of Community College with a focus in Human Resources or Business Management.
• Human Resources Program or related certifications.
• Have a minimum of 1 year previous customer facing type work experience, customer service, office experience or Military service.
• You are Technically proficient in MS Office, including Word, Excel and Power Point
• You have a strong interest in Human Resources with strong written and verbal communication skills
• Good communication and relationship management skills
• You have a desire to work in a fast paced, high caliber and dynamic environment
• Capability to understand and balance the impact of decisions
• Ability to remain confident under pressure and work collaboratively to address issues
• Self-motivated and detail-oriented with a focus on quality results/deliverables
• Are goal oriented and have the ability to prioritize and multitask with team members to meet objectives
• Comfortable learning to use new tools and think analytically