Hi Oliver, this depends on the part of our business that you start your career in. You are treated as an EY person so you'll be out working at clients in a team helping with an audit or working on a project to help a business. You may be researching tax legislation and providing your recommendation on a particular tax issue that one of our clients is facing. The work is very varied.

Great question Jamol! We recruit students studying law into our Assurance, Advisory and Tax service lines. We also recruit law graduates into EY Law which is a growing part of our business in New Zealand. They have over 1800 legal specialists in 70 countries. Our lawyers have years of experience in their practice areas and in various markets and industries and tailor their advice to our clients business needs.

Hi everyone,

Jacqui's here from EY and ready to answer any questions!

Hi EY, 

Can you please tell me what a career with EY would look like 5 years in if I start as a grad? i.e. what opportunities will I be exposed to? 

Thanks 

Hi Kirsty, at EY you'll have a counsellor and their role is to support you with your career (this maybe finding opportunities or experiences for you or training). As long as you are meeting the requirements of your role then you'll certainly be on the way to being progressed and promoted. EY offer lots of training along the way and when you reach milestones in your career like becoming a manager you'll attend a New Manager course or when you start running projects and looking after a team you'll attend a delegation workshop.

Hi, how long is the grad programme? and what happens when it is complete?

Hi Luke, we recruit graduates and interns to join us from all universities across New Zealand - Auckland, AUT, Massey, Waikato, Victoria, Canterbury, Lincoln, Unitec and Otago. My advice would be find out what you are interested in and are looking to study and then visit those universities that offer those degrees to find out which suits you best. Good luck!

Yes we do have a mentoring programme. At EY we call it  Counselling@EY and everyone from our partners to our interns has a counsellor. You can find out information on the support you'll receive at EY here: http://www.ey.com/NZ/en/Careers/Students/Your-development/Students---Your-development#fragment-3-na

Hi Jacqui,

What kind of info would I put in my CV and cover letter that would appeal to EY?

Great question Robert! The most important thing is not to leave anything out...we find that students make the decision not to put things like being involved in clubs, work experience etc they might have had as they think it's not relevant. We really want to get to know you as a person! The standard things like personal details, education, work experience, club/societies/teams you may have been involved in, prize/awards we would be looking for. I would encourage you to use the careers teams at the university as well as they'll give you some great advice too.