Anyone went interview with EY recently? I have an interview tomorrow and super nervous as it is my first interview. I can't speak fluently when I am nervous. Is there any presentation to be done in the interview?

Did you have relevant internship experience? Or strong extracurricular activity. They want your skills whole rounded

I interviewed with E* last week for audit 6 month contract position. I wonder if they r not offering me full time position because I have no experience, although I applied for tax but they freeze the hiring. I wanna ask your advice, if I am rather an introvert, is audit a suitable career?

I admit that I was shy, but now improved, communication is okay, just that not easy to start a conversation and also speak out in the meeting. Audit gives me good exposure, but I just worry that I will be tired meeting many people everyday since it is project based, which will effect my performance. So I am thinking doing tax instead.

Thanks for enlightened me. That means I still can be rescued.
May I know why many tender resignations?

Hi all, I'm currently working in one of the big10 in tax, just got promoted to senior this year Jan, but I'm thinking to switch to audit in big4. I'll definitely get demoted if I do so, but can I ask for increment like 10% of my current salary? I don't have experience in audit so I wonder will they take into account my experience in tax.

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Initially why I choose tax was because I think it is very tiring to travel for audit as I like to stay home rather than go out most of the time. After work in tax for some time, I realised the problem with this job 1. What we do mostly depends on the Inland Revenue Board (IRB) , for the tax treatment our judgement is not so important, but rather follow IRB's practice as they will be the one who do tax audit on tax payers. The problem is the IRB gazette order/guideline is always so ambiguous, so we basically if we want to be the top of this area, need to have some relationship with the IRB to make things easier. So I realised this job has no more purpose for me to always follow IRB's practice rather than using my own judgement. 2. While doing tax, we need to understand the business nature diff types of agreement/doc, the cons of staying in office is that I can't get hands on experience on the business itself, we basically can only imagine what the business do without really experience it. 3. Career progression and salary - initially I am being not confident, I knew that in tax we can be managers up to 10 years, I'm like ok fine, but seeing how my seniors are doing where after 7 years of working but salary not up to RM10K, I decide that this is not for me. Of course in other career, whether I can climb up the ladder is also not guaranteed but I feel like in tax the sky has limit. I plan to gain experience in audit to see the how the business works, then switch to other areas like business consultant where I can design the internal control of the business, which I am more interested in.

The question on why I did not switch earlier. I joined tax last year January as a fresh grad, I had a hard time adjusting to the work, but I managed to get used to work after 6 months. So after I began to settle down I'm thinking to leave already, but I delayed because I thought I want to get through one peak period and see next step. Somehow I just can't get my resume and interview ready because I'm thinking what should I write in my resume so that another company with diff job will take me in with salary increment. I don't know what to write to show that I make an impact to the team. I have ideas to make suggestion to improve the team efficiency/control but I haven't think of a way to present to my boss because am too busy. My previous manager who left this year Jan gave me a very good comment such as initiative, resourceful, great interpersonal skills during performance appraisal. I don't know whether I should ask her to be my referee because she and her husband (another team manager) are good friend with my current manager. I also need to prepare for interview which is very difficult for me because I need to practice a lot in order to do well, I am just not a natural speaker. That's why drag until now..And why I don't just switch department, is because the benefits for this firm is way too lousy, if I want to go into audit, I might as well work hard in big4, get good benefits and have better exposure too. If I want to switch department, I not sure if my partner will release me too. If you have any idea on what points to include in my resume and interview preparation, appreciate if you can comment on this.

I have submitted my application around end of March/Beginning of April, I applied audit only for local big4, I applied for risk consulting for PwC SG because the job description attracted me. Well, so far EY has directly email rejected me on the next day and KPMG called me to ask whether I want to consider a position in tax, but I insisted to join audit, after that no news, there is no status on their website too. I also applied to big4 Singapore, only did the pymetrics test for PwC, others no news as well. I think my resume should be ok, but now not sure what are my chances now.

Hi, mind sharing how's the culture and benefits for audit fresh entry? Nowadays do auditors still work until midnight? Just thinking that they have more advanced technology, shouldn't it reduce work for humans, and thus better working environment.

Any fresh grad A1 got offer in EY start in Oct, what's the salary package now after the pay revision?