Consulting By Degrees

• Provides entry-level Graduates with the full-spectrum:

– structured training and development
– practical experience
• Employees join a community of talented consultants
• Helping top-tier clients to solve their business and technical
issues.
• Working in many different areas such as strategy consulting
and application services to business analytics and
optimization.
• Benefiting from personalized career planning and
mentoring.
• Gaining consulting and leadership skills through a defined
education path.
 Recruitment
• The first step in IBM's application process is to take an online
test.
• The test assesses problem solving and rapid learning skills.
• If candidates pass the test they are invited for interviews.

Compensation
• Employees enter in band of 7A.
• Annual compensation is around 9 to 15 lakhs per annum.
• Compensation consists of Basic Pay and Variable Pay.
 TRAINING
• CBD career development is broken into four six-month
quadrants.
• Each quadrant focuses on specific objectives and
includes a blend of classroom education and
developmental project assignments.
• In the 1st year Assigned to shorter-term projects across
different sectors.
• In the 2nd year, employees work with manager to
develop a path to a specialty area.
• Consultant Senior Consultant Managing Consultant
Senior Managing Consultant Executive Consultants
Associate Partners Partner.
 CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
Philosophy at IBM:
• ‘Working with employees to adjust their career path to match their
lifestyle.’
• ‘Changing careers does not have to mean changing employers.’
Academic Learning Assistance Program (ALAP)
• To meet identified business needs by paying educational expenses for
employees at universities and colleges.
• Individual Course Plan (ICP) - reimbursement for tuition and
some fees
• Degree Work Study Plan (DWSP) - pays expenses for undergrad
or grad degree.
• Special Studies Plan - full-time on-campus study for PhD
programs
 CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
Talent@IBM
• An online learning hub that offers course descriptions,
curricula, schedules, and enrollment for thousands of online
and classroom courses.
THINK40
• A self-initiate program of minimum of 40 hours of
professional development every year to continuously build
the skills and deep expertize that clients’ value most.