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Top Insider Advice
Having strong soft skills will help you in life. Get comfortable building relationships and being out of your comfort zone, this will help you succeed in your professional career. It has helped me build professional relationships with clients and colleagues, and makes it easier when you have to ask them difficult questions.
Career path
Audit Associate
EY UK
From 09/2023 to 12/2024Company
What do you like about your job and the company?
I was always interested in business at school, setting up my own enterprise during the covid pandemic to earn myself some extra money. This then led me to Audit where you get to have hands on experience and witness how these large businesses operate, and how they overcome any challenges that they encounter. I've worked on clients that I'd never heard of before and also some well known household names.
Greatest achievements
I gained experience with EY through the Business Academy, which has since been renamed Career Starters. The program is a work experience scheme that enables year 12 and 13 students to gain an insight into a Big 4 firm. I completed this in the summer of Year 12, and off the back of this I was then offered an interview for the apprenticeship. I sat my interview on my second day of Year 13, and 2 weeks later I was offered a role with EY.
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Top Insider Advice
You must embrace continuous learning as it ensures relevance in a rapidly evolving work landscape. This will allow you to increase your technical expertise and commercial awareness - both pivot to success. By improving your technical expertise, your work will be seen as more accurate and reliable. By increasing your commercial expertise, you will be able to take that one step further and decide which analyses to do at what time and what the output of an analysis actually means for a business. Networking is also extremely useful. There are so many things we don't know we don't know, but just a simple conversation with an experienced individuals can save you years of mistakes. They can provide guidance and deliver a roadmap as they can see the path you need to take when you aren't even aware of the next step. Similarly, reading and taking courses are very powerful as this allows you to consume decades of knowledge in just a few hours...
Hania I
Transaction Diligence Graduate
Top Insider Advice
Match your values to the company that you are applying to and make sure both what they do within work projects and outside of this engages your interests so that you have the motivation to develop yourself professionally and personally throughout your career journey. It will always present much more positively if you are truly excited and enjoy what you will do in your daily role.
Nicholas N
Top Insider Advice
Sounds Simple but people forget this.. Taking part in any recruitment process can be a exciting but also daunting time, during the process always try and be your true self. Be honest with your answers and try and allow your personality to come through during the process. Skills can be taught and but behaviours can't.
