Career Prospects at AECOM

Plenty of opportunities. Seems like AECOM has a clear career prospect guide.

Seems very predictable for the early years (0-4) in terms of promotions/pay

As a graduate there are limited opportunities for promotion but there will be in the coming years.

It is encouraging to see lots of promotions from within. However it seems fairly rigid for early professionals in regards to promotion and raises.

Getting our architecture registration, proving to our leader that we are qualified and experienced enough

Working for an international company with different projects provides a wide range of opportunities and growth.

Company has clear progression steps. Mentor programme exist to help grads.

I think that promotion for the first couple of years is good and linear, i feel like it stagnates towards the 5-10yr mark and the pay increase associated with early promotions is not up to the market value.

Fixed promotion for graduates after 18months. No opportunities to accelerate. Post professional promotion opportunities are available in October and are usually advocated.

From graduate to professional, the program is 18 months. Afterwards it is based on performance.

It is a big international company which means there are limits to how fast you can progress. Pay is also very rigid and not so much related to performance as you would get in other companies. You can be given more responsibility than your role title if you want it.

I believe in what I stated for how I believe people should prepare themselves when applying for AECOM. I thought I was worth slightly more (like 2 percent more) but that will come with time. Certainly not upset and am definitely grateful to be in the company and team I am in. Everything will come with experience and time.

As a grad, you will get the professional title after the 2 years program. After that, you have to negotiate on your own.

Typical corporate ladder. There is a guide on how to move up the ranks but I've not indulged in it further.

Promotion opportunities are annually based on KPI, performance and resourcing amounng other aspects. Goal setting is a great example on showing growth. Showing initiative and management skills along with being a friendly and helpful team member all contribute to moving up the ranks

It is unfortunate, but in order to move up and get an appropriate raise you have to move to different companies as promotional opportunities and pay progression can be poor.

Company is fairly structured - no provision for early promotion out of graduate program but now they withold people from progressing. Very structured roles so they will promote based on time frames rather than demonstrating your capabilities.

Starting salary for an engineer isn't super competitive. Raise only just hit CPI.

I believe you move up through experience so I don't think it's easy

As yet, promotion opportunities are limited depending on the work afforded to your department and sub-discipline. Depending on what kind of work is available, you may find yourself taking on a completely different role to what you had applied for. Though, there will be support in this area to ensure that you are learning something useful from it.