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Careers at Deloitte
Encouragingly, Deloitte offers a range of early career programmes for school and university students and recent graduates.
A-Level students can partake in Career Shapers programmes, which allow you to test out your liking for a career with Deloitte via introductions to its work in a variety of service areas.
For school students who don’t feel university is the right fit, Deloitte runs entry-level apprenticeships and the BrightStart Apprenticeship.
For first-year university students who are unsure about their career direction but want a taste of what a Deloitte career is like, there’s the two-day Spring into Deloitte programme.
Penultimate-year university students can apply for the annual summer vacation scheme, which is a four to six-week placement. There is also the option to work for Deloitte on a 12-month industrial placement.
Graduates can apply to Deloitte’s graduate programme across a range of business areas, from audit and assurance and tax to consulting and technology.
As illustrated by the range above, Deloitte provides many supportive routes through education into its business sectors.
Whilst it may appear easier to secure employment at Deloitte through these routes, be aware that these are not a prerequisite of employment. If you are an experienced hire without any previous contact or experience at Deloitte, you should not be deterred.
There are opportunities for professionals across all service areas. Deloitte prides itself on its inclusive culture and values, as well as its learning and development opportunities, and flexibility for agile working.
Deloitte Application Process
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Online Application
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Immersive Online Assessment
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Job Simulation
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Final Stage Assessment
Deloitte Application Process
As expected, there is great competition to secure a role at Deloitte and this is the case across all service sectors. The multi-stage recruitment process is particularly challenging; careful preparation is needed to excel and impress at each stage.
To ensure the best talent is recruited, the Deloitte application process consists of a variety of online assessments, including a number of reasoning tests and a job simulation exercise.
These tests help to gain insight into a candidate’s mental capability, as well as into their behaviour and alignment with the Deloitte culture, values and ways of working.
If you progress to the final stages, you will have to impress the recruitment team at the final stage assessment, which centres on a skills and motivation interview and, for many roles, a discussion exercise.
Below is a detailed breakdown of the stages in Deloitte’s recruitment process. Note that the process may vary slightly according to the type of programme or role you are applying for.
Online application
The first stage of the process is to complete an online application. You will first be asked to indicate the opportunity or role you are applying for. You will then need to complete your candidate profile, adding your work experience and educational qualifications.
It is recommended that you have your grade information handy before launching the application portal.
You may also be asked a few simple questions regarding your motivation for applying to the company and role (this is dependent on the opportunity you are expressing interest in). The answers required will likely have a 100-word limit.
Deloitte Aptitude Tests
Deloitte’s online aptitude tests are delivered as a single immersive online assessment, blending questions from several types of psychometric tests to assess different aspects of a candidate’s mental capability. These will likely be numerical reasoning, verbal reasoning and situational strengths questions.
There is some variation to testing depending on department, role, and office location. And there is no strict time limit, although your response speed on some questions is factored into your score. It is, however, a requirement to complete the test in one sitting (most candidates take around an hour to complete it).
Note that Deloitte branches tend to use Cappfinity as their test publisher.
For some vacancies, the question styles below will be blended into a single assessment. For others, they will be in distinct sections following on from each other. Either way, you will be answering the same style of questions, just in a different structure.
Deloitte numerical reasoning
The numerical reasoning test will present candidates with multiple-choice questions based around basic mathematical skills - such as fractions, percentages, ratios, sequences and simple algebra - and data interpretation from charts and tables.
Deloitte verbal reasoning
The verbal reasoning questions will require candidates to read passages and answer questions related to sentence structure, emphasis, synonyms, and implied meaning.
Deloitte situational strengths
The situational strengths test will ask you a series of questions related to how you would respond in different work scenarios. It aims to assess your behaviours and whether they align with Deloitte’s workplace culture and values.
