January 27th in Uncategorized by jason2009 .
The Boston Consulting Group best ranked consultancy on FORTUNE’s ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’ list
The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has soared nearly to the top of FORTUNE’s 2009 list of the “100 Best Companies to Work For,” jumping eight spots to number three overall and retaining its first-place honours among smaller companies for the third straight year.
An emphasis on employee development, a collaborative culture, extensive training, and progressive benefits contributed to the strong performance—the best among consulting firms for the fourth year in a row.
BCG is among those companies on this year’s list with …
The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has soared nearly to the top of FORTUNE’s 2009 list of the “100 Best Companies to Work For,” jumping eight spots to number three overall and retaining its first-place honours among smaller companies for the third straight year.
An emphasis on employee development, a collaborative culture, extensive training, and progressive benefits contributed to the strong performance—the best among consulting firms for the fourth year in a row.
BCG is among those companies on this year’s list with the best benefits and the highest pay (thirteenth overall). “But the rewards at Boston Consulting aren’t purely financial,” FORTUNE emphasized. “BCG considers itself an apprenticeship where senior consultants teach junior consultants and training is intensive at all levels. That’s helpful, since the partnership track is well-defined.” In addition, the magazine noted, 90 percent of BCG consultants who apply to MBA programs are accepted.
Other unusual benefits at BCG include three months of paid maternity leave and a bonus—15 percent of pay—deposited in a retirement plan.
Ernst & Young ranks number 51 on the list of 100 companies, and ranks number 17 on the large company list. Ernst & Young is the only Big Four professional services firm that has been on the list for 11 consecutive years.
Ernst & Young offers a wide range of programs and benefits to help make people’s busy lives easier, including concierge services, a working parents’ network, and leading-edge parental leave benefits.
Over the next two years, the firm will also be deploying a unique global career development framework called EYU. EYU stands for Ernst & Young and you, reflecting the mutual commitment the firm has to supporting its people, and the commitment EY people have to owning their own career.
Booz Allen Hamilton ranks 52nd on the list. This is the fifth consecutive year that Booz Allen has made the list.
A driving factor for the companies on this year’s list is that they excel at creating jobs. Of the 100 companies on the 2009 list, 73 are currently hiring.
“We are definitely hiring and have more than 1,000 jobs listed today on boozallen.com. We are continuing to hire robustly in growth areas of the business and some of our priorities include software and systems engineers, information assurance and security engineers, and intelligence analysts with access to classified information,” says Booz Allen’s Senior Director of Recruiting Judy Merkel.
KPMG has been named to the list for the third consecutive year, continuing its momentum up the list and climbing 15 places this year, ranking No. 56 on the full 2009 list; No. 20 among large-sized companies.
This past year, KPMG’s EOC program embraced such successful initiatives as the launch of the “People Management Leaders” program, an innovative approach to career guidance and mentorship – as well the creation of employee corporate citizenship initiatives as “Family for Literacy,” which combines firm-level philanthropy with volunteer opportunities that encourage reading among young children.
PricewaterhouseCoopers made a huge jump from last year’s ranking at 90, to reach the 58th slot on this year’s list. The firm offers a job sharing program, along with a compressed workweek and allows work from home.
For the tenth year, Deloitte has been named to the list, this year at 61st place. Deloitte’s leading talent initiatives include a tool that allows all Deloitte professionals to dial up and dial down in their careers to suit their personal needs while advancing in the organization; and a state-of-the art learning and leadership development centre that will enable Deloitte professionals to meet, learn and develop the next generation of business leaders.
Accenture is 97th on the list. In including Accenture on its 2009 list, FORTUNE noted that “every employee of this consulting company is assigned a career counsellor — and he or she then has thousands of courses to choose from. Average training is 78 hours a year per person.”
Among the many other programs and initiatives that Accenture provides for its employees are a self-funded sabbatical that allows US employees to take up to three months away from work with continued healthcare and insurance benefits; Backup Dependent Care, which provides US employees with 40 hours of backup dependent care per year.
To pick the “100 Best Companies to Work For,” FORTUNE works with Robert Levering and Milton Moskowitz of the Great Place to Work® Institute—a global research and consulting firm with offices in 30 countries—to conduct the most extensive employee survey in corporate America.
More than 81,000 employees from 353 companies responded to the 57-question survey created by the Institute. Two-thirds of a company’s score is based on the survey, which is sent to a minimum of 400 randomly selected employees. The remaining third is based on a company’s responses to the Culture Audit questionnaire, which asks detailed questions about demographics, pay and benefits, and open-ended questions on philosophy, communication and more.
Any company that is at least seven years old with more the 1,000 US employees is eligible to be included on the list.
