{"id":6905,"date":"2026-05-22T03:33:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T03:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=6905"},"modified":"2026-05-22T03:33:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T03:33:15","slug":"accenture-exec-says-the-consulting-giant-is-hiring-more-entry-level-workers-out-of-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=6905","title":{"rendered":"Accenture exec says the consulting giant is hiring more entry-level workers out of college"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Leaders are split on how AI will change the entry-level labor market: while some warn of a jobs armageddon, others believe it\u2019ll usher in a golden era of new opportunities for young workers. Some employers like Meta and PwC have already reeled back their hiring of fresh-faced graduates\u2014but Accenture\u2019s global chief diversity officer, Beck Bailey, says the consulting giant is only ramping up its acquisition of Gen Z talent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve made a commitment to hire more entry-level people this year than we did last year,\u201d Bailey recently said at Fortune\u2019s Workplace Innovation Summit. \u201cOur reasoning is that if you think about the folks who are graduating college this year, they entered college with ChatGPT\u2026We want them in our workforce now to help us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The executive overseeing an employee population of around 786,000 strong is looking to add more college graduates to the company\u2019s massive headcount, echoing Accenture CEO Julie Sweet\u2019s remarks from last month. And the consulting giant isn\u2019t alone in that thinking; other employers like Ford and Nvidia have also expressed the importance of keeping early-career workers in the pipeline.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bailey appeared on a panel with Indeed Chief Revenue Officer Maggie Hulce and University of Michigan professor Jeff DeGraff. The panel, focused on future-proofing your org chart, was hosted by Indeed.<\/p>\n

Bailey sympathizes with young professionals hearing predictions of mass unemployment driven by AI adoption, while he says roles will \u201cshift and change,\u201d new jobs will emerge as others fade into the ether. However, no business leader has all the answers. Only a handful of years into AI\u2019s rapid innovation, workplaces still need to adapt and experiment before drawing long-term conclusions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re in a place of perhaps the messy middle of this [AI] transformation,\u201d the global chief diversity officer continued. \u201cPeople still need skilling and relationship-building with the technology, and leadership needs to still figure out where it\u2019s going.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Hulce, Indeed\u2019s chief revenue officer, has also seen the \u201cdoomsday\u201d headlines. However, she believes there\u2019s not a single path every company is following\u2014while some employers are choosing to hire fewer people thanks to AI\u2019s efficiency gains, others are simply supercharging the work their employees already do. However, she doesn\u2019t believe in a total jobs wipeout.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe jobs are changing: it\u2019s the human plus AI transformation that\u2019s happening,\u201d Hulce said in the same panel at the Workplace Innovation Summit. \u201cThey\u2019re morphing, and the counts of people you need at different types of jobs are changing, but most of the jobs we see will be augmented or aided with AI, not totally done 100% with AI.\u201d<\/p>\n

DeGraff, a management professor at the University of Michigan, also noted how workforces change amid their AI planning cycles. Right now, companies are fine-tuning their employee charts in this new transformation era\u2014and down the line, businesses might look a whole lot different.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the short term, you\u2019re going to adjust the workforce that you\u2019ve got because you fight with the army you have, not the army you want,\u201d DeGraff chimed in onstage at the Fortune event. \u201cBut in the long run there\u2019s going to be massive changes, enormous changes\u2026What we don\u2019t know is what\u2019s going to emerge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed is the Founding and Data Partner for Fortune\u2018s Workplace Innovation Summit.<\/p>\n

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