Does opting for UK&I limit the range of international opportunities you can get involved in?

Hi Abigail. When our programme says UK&I, that is literally just a way we describe our side of the business that does not deal with financial services clients! Our business is split between FS clients and UK&I (every other industry) but that does not mean that you will be restricted in international travel opportunities in any way. You may still be working on clients from an industry where they happen to have international operations where you could have the opportunity for travel.

Hope this helps!

Hi Rachel, thank you that is a lot clearer!

I applied for a graduate position in Assurance and have been told that I will be joining the GPS team if I am successful. Does this mean I will be in that team for the whole of my graduate programme - or is this just where I will start?

So usually if you join a team you will be there for the entire graduate programme, as you will often do particular training/qualifications that are specific for that team. There are usually opportunities to move service lines/do secondments later in your career once you have finished your training contract and are no longer on the training contract.

Hope this helps!

Thanks!

Oh great question. Further to that - Rachel, could I ask - if I am successful in my graduate application, how would I be allocated a certain industry? Would I give preferences or would this be something EY recruiters determine?

I guess Abigail, if you have experiences of that too then great!

Hi Andrei, so where there is the option of FS and UKI within an office and service line then you could select a preference of UKI or FS and we try accomodate this as far as possible.

If you are applying to a regional office (any office outside of London) you aren't allocated a particular industry within UKI, you will work on a variety of clients across different industries. If you apply to London then when you join you will be allocated an industry to work on and I believe this is just allocated by the business based on need.

I have applied to a regional, so I am not sure why I was allocated a specific industry, I also didn't have any imput into which team it would be.