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Over 1000 new student and graduate vacancies open for 2010 at PwC
New management consulting and summer internship vacancies for graduates. Opportunities nationwide.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), the UK’s largest private sector employer, has announced details of the firm’s plans to recruit over 1000 students and graduates to start work in 2010.
The firm bucked the recession trend in 2008 and 2009, maintaining its commitment to back graduate skills development with nationwide career opportunities across the tax, assurance and advisory businesses. For 2010, PwC will increase its internship and management consulting vacancies, and will for the first time also recruit for trainee positions with PwC Legal, a member of the PwC network.
The majority of vacancies will be in the firm’s assurance practice, followed by advisory, and tax. The programme will recruit for:
- A graduate generalist programme working in tax or assurance to train as a chartered accountant;
- A graduate specialist programme, providing opportunities in strategy consulting and actuarial business with training for a relevant qualification;
- Over 100 new vacancies in the firm’s advisory team, to meet the firm’s management consulting growth strategy, including 20 starting in January 2010;
- Over 200 internship vacancies, expanding to include a new consulting internship programme
- A summer business academy for first year undergraduates;
- An international internship programme linking UK students to the firm’s network in America, Europe and China.
Providing welcome relief to students and graduates facing the toughest job market for a decade, this year’s recruitment campaign will again offer employability skills advice and tools online, on about 30 university campuses and at the firms’ major regional offices throughout the year.
In 2009 the PwC online Employability Skills Clinic received over 50,000 visits in six months, providing tools and tips for students to assess their skills and achievements against employers’ expectations and business needs, putting them in the best position to get a job.
Ian Powell, chairman and senior partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, said the firm’s decision to maintain its graduate recruitment programme in a recession was not only a commercial imperative, it made good business sense:
“We held our nerve in the market and maintained our recruitment levels in 2009 because no matter what the economic conditions talented people are the lifeblood of PwC, and will put our business in the best position in the recovery. It would short change our business in the recovery if we failed to maintain our investment and confidence in graduate skills now.”
Sonja Stockton, head of recruitment, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, said: “If anything, the war for talent has got more intense rather than less in the recession, for graduates and employers alike. This year’s recruitment campaign is not about maintaining our numbers, it’s about our ambition and growth in the market. Talented, enterprising people matching academic achievement with confidence in their skills, ability to learn and contribute will be recognised by our business.
“Students are learning some of the hardest business lessons of their life now so the employability skills campaign gives them the tools to put them in the best position to get a job.”
Applications to the firm increased 48% in 2009, with jobs offered to graduates from over 90 universities. 82% of new joiners were in the 20-24 age group, 17% of the intake were over 25, and 40% qualified in subjects outside of the traditional degree disciplines attracted to the firm, including the arts, geography, science, engineering and languages.
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30 October 2009
