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Big 4 Graduate Accounting Jobs – This page is about helping you win the opportunity to work with the very best accounting firms the industry has to offer…

The “big 4” PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), Deloitte and Touché, KPMG and Ernst & Young.

If you’re aiming for an accountancy graduate or internship position, the best advice is to always aim high. In other words try to work for the very best firms possible. Firms don’t get any better than PWC, KPMG, Ernst & Young or Deloitte’s.

Starting your career with one of these firms, marks you out as being exceptional, and will form a springboard to career advancement, should you choose to stay with the firm or move in another direction, Big 4 experience will pay you back time and time again.

However getting noticed and successfully negotiating the recruitment process, is one mighty challenge that many very talented individuals never accomplish.

So what’s the secret to landing a plumb job with a big 4 accounting firm?

You need a plan, and hopefully the advice of someone who has successfully navigated this course before.

Your CV or Resume has to be in good order, this is not likely to be the stand out document it becomes later in your career, due to lack of experience most CV’s will look very similar, so the advice here, is triple check your document, as silly mistakes will get you rejected.

Next you have to get your CV / Resume and you “noticed”. The graduate hiring teams of the big 4 always have an abundance of talented individuals to choose from. So standing out from the crowd becomes vital.

Graduate Accounting Jobs - The best opportunity to do this is the “recruitment fair” either on or off campus there are always recruitment events set up where most big 4 firms will be present. These provide excellent opportunity to present your CV / resume in person.

The trick here is to have really done your homework on these firms, understand their history, and the challenges facing them. Solid research breeds confidence, and confidence will enable you to meet and greet in a friendly, polite manner, you should also have a really good question prepared. The objective is not to interrogate the representatives of these firms, but to make a brief, friendly, and professional impression.

Don’t forget to take a business card!

Graduate Accounting Jobs - Getting an interview with one or all of the Big 4 firms is worthy of a moment of self congratulation. At this point nothing has been finalised, but you should take great confidence from all of the good candidates that failed to make it to this stage.

However this is where it gets really tough, the big 4 interview process has been refined over decades to weed out all but the best candidates.

The temptation at the interview stage is to project supreme confidence, but what is really needed is to project confidence combined with humility. The big 4 are looking for confident, yet personable characters, who will work well with colleagues, partners and clients.

They want people with the attitude and ability to learn and be taught, moulded if you like into the ideal employee.

Because so much of your working life will revolve around interviewing and meeting with clients, your social skills are of paramount importance, therefore the interview will continue to evaluate your social skills and performance under pressure (yes, they know how important the interview is to you, and will use this to test your composure).

Graduate Accounting Jobs - Secrets

1. Why you want to work for the firm
2. Which location and department you want to work for – be specific
3. Be personable
4. Don’t dress too flashy
5. Ask good questions

From a technical accounting point of view, you’re not expected to know everything, but you are expected to know about :

Fair Value Accounting (FAS 157 and FAS 159)

FASB codification

In the guide the author breaks this down in some detail, covering what you need to know and how you can research to identify intelligent questions you can ask and discuss.

You finally set yourself apart from many of your competitors by simply emailing your interviewer (you did remember to get their card!) a concise thank you email, thanking them and reconfirming your interest in the opportunity.

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I hope you are successful in attaining your dream big 4 accounting position.

As a thank you for reading graduate accounting jobs, please feel free to download our free interview guide “Interview Sniper” .

Interview Sniper is a general interviewing guide not specifically for those starting out on their career, however I would recommend learning the STAR method of answering and asking interview questions, as I believe this to be a fundamental business skill.

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