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Updated 2026-06-16

The values Accenture hires against
and how to prove them.

Why this matters

Accenture publishes six core values: Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual, Best People, Integrity, and Stewardship. They are values, not an Amazon-style scored rubric. This page names them from the firm's Code of Business Ethics, then goes where the careers site does not: it maps each value to the resume and interview evidence that actually demonstrates it.

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By the numbers
What Accenture publishes
6
Core values, in the Code of Business Ethics
The values
Client value
Plus integrity, stewardship, best people
Leadership framework
Essentials
The leader behaviors you grow into
Source
accenture.com
Code of Business Ethics
The six core values, in one line each

Accenture's six core values.

The value names are Accenture's, as listed in its Code of Business Ethics. Each one-line definition is an editorial paraphrase of what the firm means by it, not a verbatim quote. The count is six.

01
Client Value Creation. Enable clients to become high-performing and build long-term relationships by consistently delivering value.
02
One Global Network. Draw on global insight, relationships, and collaboration to deliver for clients wherever they operate.
03
Respect for the Individual. Value diverse contributions and create a trusting, open, and inclusive environment.
04
Best People. Attract, develop, and retain strong talent with a can-do attitude in a collaborative, supportive team.
05
Integrity. Be ethically unyielding and honest, inspiring trust by matching behavior to words and owning the outcome.
06
Stewardship. Build a stronger, more durable firm for the future with an owner mentality, meeting commitments to stakeholders and communities.

Value names from Accenture's Code of Business Ethics, accenture.com/us-en/about/company/business-ethics (accessed 2026-06-16). One-line definitions are an editorial paraphrase.

The quick answer

What are Accenture's core values?

Accenture publishes six core values, named in its Code of Business Ethics: Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual, Best People, Integrity, and Stewardship. They describe what the firm stands for, with Client Value Creation as the load-bearing one because Accenture is a client-service business. They are values, not an Amazon-style numbered hiring scorecard, so on a resume you prove each through a quantified outcome rather than naming it: a measurable client result for Client Value Creation, cross-team delivery for One Global Network, talent you developed for Best People, inclusive leadership for Respect for the Individual, an owned risk or control for Integrity, and something you built to last for Stewardship. Separately, Accenture defines a set of Leadership Essentials, a leadership framework you grow into, distinct from the six values. Scan your resume to see which of these signals a recruiter would actually find. Scan your Accenture resume.

Accenture names six core values in its Code of Business Ethics: Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual, Best People, Integrity, and Stewardship. They are presented as the values that guide how the firm works with clients and each other, rather than as a numbered interview scorecard. Accenture's marketing and careers pages now lead with its 360 degree value and reinvention framing, so the six values live mainly in the Code of Business Ethics.

Accenture's six core values, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual, Best People, Integrity, and Stewardship, are named in the firm's Code of Business Ethics. This page names them from that source. One honest caveat: Accenture retired its standalone company-values web pages and now leads with its 360 degree value framing, so the verbatim descriptive wording is not on a single live page, and the one-line definitions here are editorial paraphrase.

Where this page goes further than the careers site is the resume reading. The firm tells you what it values. It does not tell you which line on your resume proves it. That mapping, from each value to the evidence a reviewer can actually read, is the wedge, and it is labeled throughout as ResumeAdapter editorial guidance, not an Accenture claim.

The reading is the same for every value: a reviewer indexes on the value being visible in the bullet itself, not asserted as an adjective. A line that reads client-focused team player, passionate about integrity and collaboration fails, because it names the values instead of demonstrating them.

A line that reads cut a client's order-to-cash cycle 30 percent on a finance transformation passes, because it shows Client Value Creation through a quantified outcome without ever using the phrase. The entries below give you that pattern for all six values, each with a show-this bullet, the anti-pattern, and the behavioral story to prepare.

The six core values

Each value, what it means,
and the evidence that proves it.

Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual, Best People, Integrity, and Stewardship. The value names are Accenture's; the intent and the resume mapping below each are ResumeAdapter editorial guidance, not an Accenture claim.

01
Core value 01

Client Value Creation

What Accenture means by it

Accenture is a client-service business, so this is the load-bearing value. It points to people who create measurable value for a client and earn a lasting relationship, not people who simply complete tasks on an engagement.

How to show it (ResumeAdapter editorial)

ResumeAdapter editorial guidance: lead with client-impact bullets. Show the business outcome you created for a client, a cost taken out, a cycle shortened, revenue or capability unlocked, framed as value delivered rather than work performed. The strongest evidence is a quantified result a client would recognize as worth paying for.

Show this on the resume

Make the client outcome the subject and quantify it: a metric you moved, money you saved or unlocked, a capability you stood up. Show that creating client value is what drove the result.

Cut a retail client's supply-chain planning cycle 40 percent by redesigning the demand-forecast process, freeing the team to replan weekly instead of monthly.

Avoid this anti-pattern

Internal-activity bullets with no client outcome named. Supported various client engagements describes presence, not the value an Accenture reviewer reads for.

Responsible for supporting client engagements and assisting with day-to-day project delivery tasks.

Interview prep

Behavioral story to prepare: a time you found and delivered value a client did not ask for, what you changed, and the measurable result.

02
Core value 02

One Global Network

What Accenture means by it

Accenture delivers through a single connected network across geographies and capabilities. The value points to people who pull in the right global expertise and deliver as one team, rather than working in a silo.

How to show it (ResumeAdapter editorial)

ResumeAdapter editorial guidance: show distributed, cross-capability delivery. Point to offshore or nearshore teams you coordinated, multi-market rollouts you ran, or specialist capabilities you brought into a delivery. The signal is that you orchestrated a network to a result, not that you did it all yourself.

Show this on the resume

Show the network you delivered through and the result it produced: teams across locations, capabilities you connected, a multi-market scope. Name the collaboration and the outcome.

Coordinated an onshore and offshore squad of 14 across three time zones to ship a payments integration on schedule, with shared API contracts both teams built against.

Avoid this anti-pattern

Solo-hero phrasing that hides the team. Single-handedly delivered reads against a value built on collaboration, and reviewers distrust it on a network-delivery firm.

Single-handedly built and delivered the entire platform with no support from other teams.

Interview prep

Behavioral story to prepare: a delivery that only worked because you connected people or capabilities across locations, and the outcome it produced.

03
Core value 03

Respect for the Individual

What Accenture means by it

The value points to people who build an inclusive, respectful team where different contributions are valued. On a firm that staffs across cultures and geographies, that is treated as delivery infrastructure, not a soft extra.

How to show it (ResumeAdapter editorial)

ResumeAdapter editorial guidance: show inclusive leadership in action. Point to mentoring, leading cross-cultural teams, employee-network involvement, or creating an environment where junior or diverse voices were heard, with a concrete outcome the team felt.

Show this on the resume

Show how you built belonging or surfaced diverse input, with the effect on the team named. Inclusive leadership is the action, not the statement.

Restructured a delivery team's review process so junior engineers presented directly to the client, lifting two analysts into client-facing roles within a year.

Avoid this anti-pattern

Naming the value without an action. Passionate about diversity and respect states the value Accenture reads for instead of showing you acted on it.

Passionate about diversity, inclusion, and treating everyone with respect at all times.

Interview prep

Behavioral story to prepare: a time you made sure a quieter or different voice on the team was heard, and what it changed about the outcome.

04
Core value 04

Best People

What Accenture means by it

Accenture scales by people, so developing talent is read as leadership. The value points to people who raise the bar around them, mentor, and bring a can-do attitude, not just strong individual output.

How to show it (ResumeAdapter editorial)

ResumeAdapter editorial guidance: show who you developed and how the team got stronger. Point to people you mentored into promotion, capabilities or playbooks you built that others adopted, or training you stood up, with the lift quantified rather than the headcount you managed.

Show this on the resume

Show the people and capability you grew, with the result: a junior promoted, a practice others adopted, a skill you scaled across a team. Quantify the lift.

Built and ran an onboarding playbook for a 20-person delivery practice, cutting new-joiner ramp time from eight weeks to four and mentoring three analysts into consultant roles.

Avoid this anti-pattern

Management-by-title bullets with no development shown. Managed a team of 10 describes a span, not the Best People value of raising the people in it.

Managed a team of 10 and oversaw their day-to-day work and deliverables.

Interview prep

Behavioral story to prepare: someone you developed who outgrew their role, what you did, and the outcome for them and the team.

05
Core value 05

Integrity

What Accenture means by it

Across a client's controls, data, and budget, the firm screens for judgment under pressure. The value points to people who do the right thing when it is costly and take responsibility for the result, not people who simply avoid mistakes.

How to show it (ResumeAdapter editorial)

ResumeAdapter editorial guidance: show integrity through evidence, not adjectives. Point to a control you built, a risk you flagged on an engagement, a difficult call you made and owned. Demonstrate the judgment; never label yourself as ethical.

Show this on the resume

Show a costly, owned action: a risk you raised, a control you tightened, a hard call you made when staying quiet was easier. Let the action carry the value.

Flagged a data-handling gap on a client engagement before go-live, owned the remediation, and built the check that closed it, protecting the account through audit.

Avoid this anti-pattern

Naming integrity as a trait. A line calling you highly ethical with strong integrity states the value Accenture reads for instead of demonstrating it, and reviewers discount it.

Highly ethical professional with strong integrity and a commitment to always doing the right thing.

Interview prep

Behavioral story to prepare: an ethical or risk call you owned on a client engagement, what was at stake, and why you raised it.

06
Core value 06

Stewardship

What Accenture means by it

Stewardship is the long-horizon value: acting like an owner, building things that last past your rotation, and meeting commitments to the firm, clients, and communities. It points to people who leave things better than they found them.

How to show it (ResumeAdapter editorial)

ResumeAdapter editorial guidance: show durable ownership. Point to a solution designed to last, a sustainability or community outcome, or a commitment you held under pressure. The evidence is that you built for the long term, not just the deliverable in front of you.

Show this on the resume

Show what you built to last and the durable result: a reusable asset, a sustainability outcome, a commitment you protected across cycles. Quantify where you can.

Designed a reusable data-quality framework that three later client teams adopted, turning a one-off fix into a practice asset that outlived the original engagement.

Avoid this anti-pattern

Short-horizon bullets that end at delivery. Completed the project says nothing about whether what you built lasted, which is the stewardship signal.

Completed the assigned project on time and moved on to the next engagement.

Interview prep

Behavioral story to prepare: something you built or protected for the long term, even when a quicker path was available, and how it paid off later.

Value names from Accenture's Code of Business Ethics, accenture.com/us-en/about/company/business-ethics. The intent and the resume and interview mapping are ResumeAdapter editorial guidance, not an Accenture claim.

Some candidates arrive expecting an Accenture version of Amazon's leadership principles: a numbered list the interview is explicitly scored against. Accenture does not publish one. What it publishes is the six core values, plus the Leadership Essentials leadership framework below.

The practical difference for you is small. Whether a firm uses a scored rubric or a set of values, the winning resume move is identical: prove the behavior through a quantified outcome rather than naming it. Do not build a labeled core-values section on your resume; build bullets where the values are visible in the results.

The leadership framework, not the values

The Leadership Essentials.
The bar you grow into.

Separate from the six core values, Accenture defines a set of Leadership Essentials, a leadership and performance framework of behaviors expected of everyone and set by the CEO. Think of the values as what the firm stands for and the Essentials as the leadership bar you grow into, not the entry screen, so do not cite them as one of the six values.

They are still worth preparing against, because they shape how senior interviewers read you. The interview tie-ins below are ResumeAdapter editorial framing, paraphrased to help you prepare, not an Accenture scorecard.

01 / Leadership Essential

Always do the right thing

Integrity in every decision and action. In an interview this reads as a judgment call you owned, not a values statement, so have a real example where you chose the harder, correct path.

02 / Leadership Essential

Lead with excellence, confidence, and humility

Being a learner, building great teams, and collaborating naturally. This reads as someone who can name what they learned from a setback and credit the team rather than claim sole authorship.

03 / Leadership Essential

Be a true partner and create client value

Client-centricity and partnership with clients, each other, and communities. This reads as delivery framed around the client's outcome and the partners who made it work, not your individual output.

04 / Leadership Essential

Have the courage to change and innovate

Bringing people along through change and actively innovating. This reads as a change you led that others doubted, the case you built, and the result, especially with AI and new ways of working in 2026.

The Leadership Essentials are Accenture's leadership framework, distinct from the six core values. Names are paraphrased and interview tie-ins are ResumeAdapter editorial.

How to show Accenture's values

Five moves from
generic resume to Accenture-true.

01
Step 01

Lead with client value you can measure

Client Value Creation is the firm's first and load-bearing value. Make a client business outcome the subject and quantify it: a cost taken out, a cycle shortened, revenue or a capability unlocked, framed as value delivered rather than work performed.

02
Step 02

Show the network you delivered through

One Global Network rewards orchestrated delivery. Point to offshore or nearshore teams you coordinated, multi-market rollouts you ran, or specialist capabilities you connected, with the result. Replace single-handedly with the collaboration that actually produced the outcome.

03
Step 03

Prove you develop people and act with integrity

Best People and Respect for the Individual reward developing talent and inclusive leadership: mentoring, juniors you promoted, belonging you built. Integrity rewards a risk or control you owned. Show the action with a concrete result; never assert the virtue as an adjective.

04
Step 04

Show something you built to last

Stewardship is the long-horizon value. Point to a reusable asset, a sustainability or community outcome, or a commitment you held across cycles, the work that outlived the engagement it started on. Quantify the durable result where you can.

05
Step 05

Scan and iterate against an Accenture posting

Upload to ResumeAdapter against a specific Accenture posting to see where your bullets name values as adjectives instead of demonstrating them, and iterate until client value, collaboration, developing people, integrity, and stewardship are visible in the work.

FAQ

Accenture core values, FAQ

The questions candidates surface about what Accenture actually screens for, after they have read the pillar. Answers are byte-identical to the FAQPage JSON-LD, because AI engines that extract HTML and AI engines that extract JSON-LD should not see different text.

What are the core values of Accenture?

Accenture publishes six core values, named in its Code of Business Ethics: Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual, Best People, Integrity, and Stewardship. They describe what the firm stands for and how it expects people to work, with Client Value Creation as the load-bearing one because Accenture is a client-service business. They are values, not an Amazon-style numbered hiring scorecard, so on a resume you prove each one through a quantified outcome rather than naming it.

How many core values does Accenture have?

Six. They are Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual, Best People, Integrity, and Stewardship, named in Accenture's Code of Business Ethics. Some summaries online list four or five by merging a couple together, but the firm's own count is six. Separately, Accenture also defines a set of Leadership Essentials, a leadership and performance framework expected of everyone, but those are distinct from the six core values, not a replacement for them.

Are Accenture's six core values still current in 2026?

Yes. The six core values, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual, Best People, Integrity, and Stewardship, remain named in Accenture's current Code of Business Ethics. One nuance: Accenture's marketing and careers pages now lead with its 360 degree value and reinvention framing, and the firm retired its standalone company-values web pages, so the six values live mainly in the Code of Business Ethics rather than on a dedicated values page. The values themselves are unchanged.

How do I show Accenture's core values on my resume?

Demonstrate each value through a quantified outcome rather than naming it. For Client Value Creation show a measurable client result you delivered. For One Global Network show cross-team or cross-geography delivery you orchestrated. For Best People show talent you developed. For Respect for the Individual show inclusive leadership in action. For Integrity show a risk or control you owned. For Stewardship show something you built to last. This resume mapping is ResumeAdapter editorial guidance; the value names are Accenture's. Scan your resume to see which signals a recruiter would actually find.

What is Client Value Creation at Accenture?

Client Value Creation is the first of Accenture's six core values and the load-bearing one, because Accenture is a client-service business. It means enabling clients to become high-performing and building long-term relationships by consistently delivering value, rather than simply completing tasks on an engagement. On a resume it is the value you should lead with: make a client business outcome the subject of your strongest bullets, a cost taken out, a cycle shortened, revenue or capability unlocked, and quantify it.

What are the Accenture Leadership Essentials?

The Leadership Essentials are Accenture's leadership and performance framework, a set of leader behaviors expected of everyone and set by the CEO, covering doing the right thing, leading with excellence and humility, being a true partner who creates client value, caring for people, committing to inclusion, and having the courage to change and innovate. They are distinct from the six core values: think of the values as what the firm stands for and the Leadership Essentials as the leadership bar you grow into, not the entry screen. Both reward the same resume move, proving behavior through quantified outcomes rather than naming it.

Does Accenture have leadership principles like Amazon's?

No. Accenture does not publish a numbered, scored hiring rubric the way Amazon publishes its leadership principles. What Accenture publishes is the six core values, plus the Leadership Essentials leadership framework. These are values and behaviors, not an enumerated interview scorecard, so candidates should not expect a question explicitly tagged to a numbered principle. The practical move is the same: prove the values through quantified client and team outcomes on the resume, and map your behavioral interview stories to them.

Continue

The rest of the Accenture
resume cluster.

01 / Pillar

How to get a job at Accenture

The pillar covering Accenture's Workday application, the six core values in summary, the CL13 to CL1 ladder, and the case and coding interviews.

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02 / Spoke

Accenture career levels and salary

The CL13 to CL1 ladder mapped to titles, a crowdsourced levels.fyi salary table by band, and the Senior Manager versus Managing Director distinction.

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03 / Spoke

The Accenture interview process

The online assessment, the video interview, the case interview for consulting and the HackerRank coding loop for technology, and how the values surface across the rounds.

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04 / Peer hub

McKinsey resume guide

The MBB comparison: how a pure-strategy firm screens its CVs against problem solving and the Personal Experience Interview, mapped to resume language the same way.

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ATS Statistics

The dataset behind the editorial findings on this page, including the median pre-edit resume score.

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