I see ...how was the interview? May I ask for some advice ? What shd I bring ? Anything I shd watch out for ?.. Why wld they reject you ?
Thank you for being so informative may you hv a wonderful career w ey:)

I have one line to summarise: they looked friendly, but the questions they asked will corner you. So be prepared.

In case you do not know, the interview started off with a group presentation, where 4-6 interviewees are grouped together, given 10 mins of preparation and about 20 mins of presentation on a case study they provide. It's kinda easy, but the difficult part is the time pressure. Bring along a pen to jot down your notes for presentation.

After that it will be essay writing session, where you're given two very simple and direct question and you're required to write a simple essay, no word limit. So, a pen is needed again. They will provide papers but just bring along just in case.

Then the 2 to 1 interview, conducted by the same panel you faced in group interview, I'm not sure is it the same for all panels, but mine actually asked questions based on the group interview, such as "how do you think your team performed just now?" "what do you think you did poorly, and how to improve?" "who would you hire? why?", which is totally out of my expectations, instead of the general standard interview questions. I guess this is the part where I screwed my interview haha. So be prepared for the unexpected.

Remember to bring your file with all your certs of course, thou my interviewers didn't even look at it.

The rejection email states that after comparing my qualifications and experiences against other candidates, they are unable to offer me an employment. I took effort to ask for even more detailed reasons, but no responses are received.

Do let me know if you need anymore guides

heyy can i ask if the welcome email is a general one or does it contain details on orientation/what to do on the first day etc? This is after your interview or offer? Thanks and all the best!

Got the offer from KPMG and EY but reject KPMG.. Because salary wise and culture in EY is better.. Gonna start to work in Sept

tips for interview: Confident , confident and confident
When interviewer throw you a hard question, dun panic, and answer the question firmly either it is correct or wrong

Yeah it contains details on orientation/what to do on the first day. And it's only after my offer

Hi all

Just get the phone call from EY asking me to attend the interview on next week, with the interviewers from department HPI, anyone here working in EY , can you sharing on what mostly department HPI is all about ? I know HPI stands for hospitality, property, and infrastructure.

Thanks in advance

Wow this is really helpful thank you for writing these out truly appreciate it feeling nervous as i hv an upcoming interview w them...
what was the presentation topic abt? ...and the essay topic?....is it possible to prepare for them in advance ?
was the presentation part nerve racking?
for the interview, what other kinds of questions did they ask? were there some other tricky ones? do they ask things frm yr resume?
can i arrive jst 15 mins earlier? the interview will not start until the stated time right?

thank you v much

The presentation topic is like you're given a case study of a project, so you should discuss whether or not to undertake it and present it to the interviewers in the capacity of consultants facing the board of directors. The presentation, well as I was the last person in the team to present so the time pressure I faced was tremendous.

The essay topic not sure whether should I disclose, but you shouldn't worry too much about it, it's one of the pretty standard interview questions you can get. My advice is, study the standard interview questions and prepare your answers, that will be good for the essay writing.

For the interview, nope 99% of the questions are based on the group interview in the earlier session. Do observe your peers, and also yourself most importantly, they might ask your opinion on the candidates. This was the trickiest already haha.

Nope they didn't ask anything at all from my resume. In fact they didn't even ask for it or look at it. My cert file was closed all the time.

Well you can, in fact there's one member in my team who's late for the interview, but arrived right before the group interview started. Thou they say it's ok but of course you won't want to leave a bad impression. Yupp the interview will not start at the stated time. In fact there's a briefing session first bout the life and benefits of being part of KPMG, which lasts bout 15-30mins I think, also the interview briefing.

Additional tips, mingle around and talk to other candidates, you might get new connections or information you never knew.

Hi, does anyone know of the starting pay for EY Advisory (fresh grad)? Thanks in advance

Hi, I'm joining FSO

anyone care to help, fresh grad engineer student with second class upper cgpa and curricular activities to back up, wants to join big 4 advisory but rejected by EY, is there any sort of requirement on the CV or should i write a cover letter? which department is easier to get into, assurance, taxation, risk assurance or advisory? applied to pwc on june 30th, hr told recruitment only for month of september, applied to Deloitte for analyst technology this monday, cv has been received, but no reply, anyone care to help


Yours truly : desperate big 4 dreamer

You applied for Deloitte's technology consulting am I right? They are holding a bootcamp in August. If you are shortlisted they will give you a call. For Big 4, the easiest department to get in is assurance as turnover is high. My advice to you is not to choose the department that is easiest to get in but the one that you are most interested in. Do you know what each department does? Don't apply just for the sake of entering Big 4. If you're interested in consulting, there are lots of consulting resume available online. Just a quick google search will do the job. Consulting firms also require you to write a cover letter. Basic things to highlight in your CV are your academics, past internship experience, leadership, and extra-curricular activities.

3.4-3.5k for degree holder

yup interested in a career in consulting especially advisory, PwC recommended me two positions when i emailed them but they mentioned both under advisory, one is consulting and the other is risk assurance, but the website seems to categorized risk assurance on its own, yup been studying what each department does actually, really interested in the advisory line due to the job scope. Thanks for the repl

All the best to you. You're right, risk assurance is not under their consulting arm. In risk assurance, you're involved in auditing the client's internal business processes. Lots of control testing involved. Strategy consulting for PwC is under Strategy&, if that's what you're interested in.

Thanks!

Deloitte's bootcamp has been rescheduled, it was held last Saturday. I am not sure if they will have another session in August.

What about IT advisory in EY? Do you know anything about that?

Oh, didn't know that. You went for it? How was it?

Well according to their website, they have 2 functions under their IT advisory, namely IT advisory services and IT risk assurance services. The IT risk assurance services is somewhat similar to PwC's risk assurance, so I guess their IT advisory services is the one doing system implementation and such.