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New Joiners 1st 100 days

Compiled by Tim Antos

The new joiners to the Consulting Development Community (CDC, Capgemini’s Consulting’s two year graduate scheme) have now been with us for over 100 days. In the first of a series of 3 blogs we look back at what they had been up to since they joined.

Deborah Hough the CDC manager and senior member of Capgemini Consulting gave us a perspective of what the new joiner’s 1^st 100 days looked like to the senior management:

“The CDC have been in very high demand across the business, indicating just how well the new joiners have integrated. Their experience has particularly helped our clients in the energy, utilities, financial services and consumer products sectors, each of which have provided exciting private sector projects for the new joiners. Some of them have also integrated into the specialist practices such as the supply chain team.

It’s not just about project work. There’s been a strong contribution to sustainability, and we have a cadre of new joiners boldly supporting this year’s Million Makers team (a charity challenge turning £1,500 into £10,000).

They are about to cement the learnings of the first 100 days with more training and will be able to bring to bear a whole new set of skills”

Laura Duggen one of the CDC new joiners gave us a perspective of her first 100 days working in a large UK utility:
I’ve had a positively challenging experience establishing the reporting and tracking systems for a large, complex utilities project. I’ve been creating, embedding and running various processes, and have also had the capacity to support some of the hot housing (intense strategic brainstorming to solve difficult client challenges) and other delivery activity, which has been a great learning opportunity. Additionally I’ve taken on a role as an organiser for the Prince’s Trust work, assisted with a workshop for the internal People Programme and walked 20 miles for the Mytobular Trust. I feel like my feet haven’t touched the ground, and I’m looking forward to the challenges that the next 100 days will bring!