Our discussions with students confirm the success of hybrid career paths and the importance of rapid skill development within the Anaplan ecosystem.
Over the past few weeks, Beyond Plans has participated in four student career forums held in France and Tunisia. These meetings helped confirm a strong trend: the new generation of graduates is seeking career paths where technical expertise and business understanding progress together. This movement directly reflects the needs of Anaplan projects and the skills Beyond Plans develops internally.
Clear Expectations: Learn Fast, Understand Fast, Contribute Fast
The students we met expressed converging expectations:
-
quickly acquiring a solid business understanding,
-
working with modern, collaborative tools,
-
contributing early to concrete assignments,
-
evolving within a structured and demanding environment.
They are no longer looking for an โobserverโ first role, but want to be operational and exposed to real use cases from the very first weeks. The strong interest in Anaplan illustrates this clearly: the platform is seen as an environment that enables users to understand processes, model scenarios, and measure the impact of decisions within organizations.
Essential Forums for Beyond Plans
Beyond Plansโ regular participation in these forums serves two objectives.
First, it helps build a precise view of the skills market. The firmโs clients value consultants who can connect data, business logic, and decision-making. These forums confirm that this hybrid profile is now central to the aspirations of young graduates: they want to join projects where data is never disconnected from business use.
Second, these forums allow Beyond Plans to showcase its development model, built around structured learning. Students ask about career progression, responsibilities, certifications, and the pace of skill development. These questions reflect growing expectations around mentoring and support โ a dimension that has always been at the core of the Beyond Plans model.
-
A structured Anaplan training path,
-
Progressive and supervised skill development,
-
Early involvement in real-world use cases,
-
Team-based work that encourages knowledge sharing,
-
Exposure to a wide range of industries (finance, supply chain, sales, HR).
A Positive Trend for the Entire Anaplan Ecosystem
In France and beyond, this convergence of expectations shows that future generations of consultants already have a strong awareness of performance management, data, and business challenges. This dynamic is now fueling a talent pool better prepared for Anaplan projects, where model expertise and business understanding must go hand in hand.
