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Our recruitment process for early careers

If you choose us you want to feel confident that you can be brilliant and happy here. That’s why we designed a recruitment process that is as informative for you as it is for us.

Applications typically open in September for graduate roles (ACA and ATT) and in December for school leaver roles (AAT). We attend and host many careers events, especially in the autumn, where you can meet our people and find out much more about what it’s like to work here. This is our recruitment process for early careers candidates:

Apply for a job
Apply on our website. You'll find all our current vacancies there and it'll take you about 15 mins to apply online. All applications will receive a response.
Video interview
You’ll answer four pre-recorded interview questions over webcam. These initial questions help us get to know you. Your answers will be watched back by our recruiting team.
Online testing
You’ll be asked to do a numerical test and a verbal reasoning test. Each one takes up to 30 minutes. We ask you to complete the tests before your assessment centre.
Assessment centre
You’ll be invited to take part in our assessment centre, which is usually held in-person and occasionally on Microsoft Teams.
Outcome
We’ll call you to let you know the outcome and you may be made a job offer. If you’re unsuccessful we are happy to provide detailed feedback to help you in future. You can reapply after 12 months. If you’re successful, you’ll usually join us in either January or August.

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Assessment centre

The assessment centre has been designed to show you some of the tasks and conversations you might be involved in if you join us. The centre typically runs from 9am to 1.30pm and you’ll usually have a choice of dates.

You’ll get the opportunity to learn more about the firm and to meet people from across the firm. It is made up of a group exercise, a written exercise, behaviour based interview as well as a Q&A session with some of our current trainees

Hybrid work

Our commitment to hybrid work means that our people have the option to work in any of our offices at any time, and to spend some time working at home (or wherever they want to work!). The exact details of what hybrid working looks like varies from person to person, depending on the exact operational needs of each role.

Hybrid work

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Our recruitment process for early careers

If you choose us you want to feel confident that you can be brilliant and happy here. That’s why we designed a recruitment process that is as informative for you as it is for us.

Our top tips

“The sooner you apply the better. We consider applications as we receive them and make offers as we go. We can only take a given number of trainees at each one of our eight locations. Apply early and you are much more likely to get your first choice of location.”

“We’re looking for people who can build relationships, develop technical knowledge and commercial insights. Accountancy is much more than just the numbers, we’re trusted advisors to our clients and we’ll be trying to understand what you can bring to those relationships.”

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Hybrid work

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