anyone know cheap or free parking spot near Deloitte KL?


This post has been edited by bloodcat: Mar 12 2017, 01:43 PM

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Free park at taman rimba or something. If want pay fight with others for dbkl parking. Lol.

Pasar parking is rm10 per day. And LGB is around rm20 per day.

Anyone receive any notification from Deloitte for audit assistant application?

Hey guys,

If any aspiring auditors are interested with KPMG PJ, do let me know and I can help you submit your resume to the relevant parties.

Ex-KPMGian here.

Best,
Jiansheng

Does extracurricular activity or reference really important to join Big 4?
Anyone here manage to join Big 4 without any extracurricular & reference?

This post has been edited by FG123: Mar 17 2017, 08:31 PM

Hi...anyone know cheap or free parking spot near KPMG Tower PJ?

Open air Dataran car park @ 1 Utama, need to walk abit but only RM2.

Yes...park at the Dataran car park @ 1U near the new wing. But the parking fees has been revised to RM3 per day now using onecard. If you use their paper parking ticket, it's RM 5 per day.

Thank you. My friend wanna ask me to help her ask some info. Ia there any intern before at Deloitte for transfer pricing department ?

Hi all, just received an invitation from JB Deloitte to do the online assessment. At the same time, I have received a job offer from Singapore small accounting firm with 2 years bond.
So, would like to ask how long will Deloitte hiring process take normally?

Is it really that appealing, to work for a big 4 firm?....

I was told they don't pay well, need to work long hours, and many people jump after just a few years....Very low staff retention rate....

It has been a while since I last visited this forum but I am going to reply you anyway since your question caught my attention.

If you seek career mobility, my experience is YES so far - many of my friends who stayed long enough in Big 4 including myself travelled and worked internationally with Big 4s in other countries.

You are right to point out that big 4s generally do not pay well compared to commercial sector jobs, but that really depends on what you seek - money or mobility? If you want to make a lot of money in the shortest period of time in your lifetime, common sense dictates that you should do your own business or be in a sales role. Besides, there is also a lot of good Management trainee programs out there that offers equally rewarding career start too. So let me make it very clear in a very succinct way before I proceed further about my personal opinion - Big 4s are not the only attractive choice nowadays but still attractive on its own.

If you want the brand name on your CV, the exposure to a variety of professional network and potentially a chance for overseas experience (by way of moving to Big 4 overseas), I will say Big 4 is a good choice. The network that I made connection with and the CV that I built with my Big 4 experience opened a lot of doors (I get headhunters calling every week), and I believe you can only see the real benefit if you have at least 3-5 years experience behind you, which means toiling away the good part of your 5 years social and leisure life.

Would I do it differently if I were to do it again? I would because it was not easy. But is it worth it looking back? Yes of course!

There is really no best choice really, you can only make the best out of your choice - so my advice is, take the leap of faith, and always be willing to go against the crowd and do what you think which may work for you.

You won't know until you try.

Cheers

1) Higher starting/graduate pay in Malaysia compared to other starting/graduate pay in other places.

2) People with drive and want to try something new all the time

3) Big 4 on CV can be invaluable

As member Justin Wong has said above, and as you yourself has had in other threads, it is all how one leverages those contacts/experience once one has their foot in the door.

Just wondering a few things,
1. Since big 4 name on the cv is so prestige, isn't it mean that u will earn more at the end of the day compared to commercial or any sales job?
2. What if I do not have a professional paper, how far I could progress in big 4?
3. Is it true that no matter what position u are at at big 4 u will not have worklife?
4. I heard that the increment was very good like 25% and 3 months bonus. Is it true?

Well said. I advise accounting graduates to go on this route too. Sure, it's not the easiest or pay the most, but you basically compact the learning in 1/2 the time or less. Which means while you don't get paid very much when you are in Big 4, after 5 years you have ample options that people who are in commercial wouldn't have. Hence this is especially ideal if at the point when you graduate you are not sure what you want to do yet, and Big 4 would help you find what you like and what you are good at

But if you don't have the grit, and would give up at the first opportunity you get, then Big 4 is not for you. I've met so many who left after a year or two. That won't get them anywhere

1. What is considered 'at the end of the day'? I think if you join commercial/sales on day 1, chances of you ending up as CFO is very remote compared to joining Big4 or IB or consulting firms. But not everyone is aspire to that
2. Most Big4 would not allow for you to become manager without professional qualification. But all Big4 would sponsor you for the exams, subject to training contract of course.
3. That's not true. What is your definition of work life? Clocking out at 5.30pm everyday? Then probably yeah, you won't get that in Big4, or in fact in any job that has a good future or get to learn a lot. But if you are talking about having a vibrant social life, some of the teams are very closed knit and they would go on trips together, they would go for karaoke, drinks etc. And work-life-balance is up to you to manage, your boss, your team, your peers. If you let others dictate your hours, of course it would not be balanced. It's a good skill to learn early on in life
4. 3 months bonus consider very good? The best bonus I've gotten from Big 4 was 7 months. Of course that's peanuts compared to IB, but it's a lot better than shared services. 25% increment should refer to promotion; I only got a 25% salary adjustment as part of alignment of compensation package; but that's very rare

that's what i mean....people use the big 4 as stepping stones to gather experience and CV credits....and then move to better jobs....because there is a "glass ceiling" for most in the big 4....

few find permanency in big 4 employment it seems...

I won't call it glass ceiling really; it's not because you cannot go up; most of the time it's because there are better choices out there; or you decide that there are other things you want to do than audit for the rest of your life.

In the past and at the moment, the pyramid structure served audit firms well; they need lots of juniors but not so many senior people; hence the natural attrition works for both parties. I'm not sure about the future though; since less people are willing to put in the hard work for the kind of skills they would get in Big4; then firms need to figure out a way to be sustainable. That's why they are looking into using more automation. The thing is, what are the new graduates going to do to gain the skills needed?

I did overstay in audit firm; and now looking into going back to one after I left for 4 years. So it depends on what you want really

the pyramid structure acts as an invisible glass ceiling...

Have you worked in Big 4 before?