Deloitte Interview

maninblack

Have an interview with Deloitte this week. The e-mail I got said the following:

The interview process involves firstly completing a competency based interview with a department representative. This is then followed by an e-tray exercise, the e-tray exercise involves completing an inbox exercise (1 hour) and a written exercise (40 minutes). Altogether the interview process will take approximately 3 ½ hours.

Any advice on the 'competency based interview'? They told me I'd be interviewed by a partner and a senior manager for circa 45mins-1hr. What business topics should I read up on in advance? Presidential election, banking crisis, nama, anglo? Anything else?

Is there any prep I can do for the later PC-based exercises?

ted2767

maninblack wrote: »

Have an interview with Deloitte this week. The e-mail I got said the following:

The interview process involves firstly completing a competency based interview with a department representative. This is then followed by an e-tray exercise, the e-tray exercise involves completing an inbox exercise (1 hour) and a written exercise (40 minutes). Altogether the interview process will take approximately 3 ½ hours.

Any advice on the 'competency based interview'? They told me I'd be interviewed by a partner and a senior manager for circa 45mins-1hr. What business topics should I read up on in advance? Presidential election, banking crisis, nama, anglo? Anything else?

Is there any prep I can do for the later PC-based exercises?

The e tray thing is ok just take your time and try to get tru it logically.
As for the interview itself it's the usual competencies team work, leadership, going beyond what was required etc.
Try to have two examples of competencies and don't worry if they seem frivilous you're young and having these examples help you stand out.
As for other stuff read the papers eg bankruptcy just keep it simple don't talk yourself into trouble by saying something you cannot discuss comfortably.
Best of luck.

Muzi5434

maninblack wrote: »

Have an interview with Deloitte this week. The e-mail I got said the following:



Any advice on the 'competency based interview'? They told me I'd be interviewed by a partner and a senior manager for circa 45mins-1hr. What business topics should I read up on in advance? Presidential election, banking crisis, nama, anglo? Anything else?

Is there any prep I can do for the later PC-based exercises?

Some questions Deloitte asked me were:

Are you a leader or a follower?
What is your biggest regret?
What challenge does Deloitte face?
What should the economy do from a tax perspective?
Other than that, they'll ask the normal team based, leadership etc. questions.

The E-tray exercise is fine, just read it carefully and decide the answers.

maninblack

Muzi5434 wrote: »

What challenge does Deloitte face?

Any tips for that one?

Muzi5434

maninblack wrote: »

Any tips for that one?

Losing its clients

ballooba

What's an e-tray exercise?
edit:never mind, got it http://www.google.ie/search?gcx=c&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=E-tray+exercise

Running Balance

Hey Maninblack
is this a trainee contract with deloitte? or what type of role, just wondering are they hiring at the minute?

levi

Competency questions will be phrased like:

Give me a time where you showed leadership skills or give an example of time when you had to use good organisational skills.

You're good to use any examples from being on a sports team to organising a holiday for a group of friends. Just google competency based interviews and practice the questions. The more practiced you are the easier it'll be!

pauldoo

maninblack wrote: »

Any tips for that one?

Eamon Gilmore was interviewed were he said he wanted to break up the big getting all the consultancy work, and that they have a conflict of interests with the work the currently do

Pandoras Twist

Running Balance wrote: »

Hey Maninblack
is this a trainee contract with deloitte? or what type of role, just wondering are they hiring at the minute?

All the major accountancy firms are doing their milk rounds now (offering 3 year training contracts)

ted2767

Pandoras Twist wrote: »

Running Balance wrote: »

Hey Maninblack
is this a trainee contract with deloitte? or what type of role, just wondering are they hiring at the minute?

All the major accountancy firms are doing their milk rounds now (offering 3 year training contracts)

They're still hiring for immediate hires in one or two departments.
The vast majority is obviously for regular grad hires i.e. Sept 2012/2013.

maninblack

ted2767 wrote: »

They're still hiring for immediate hires in one or two departments.
The vast majority is obviously for regular grad hires i.e. Sept 2012/2013.

Yep, I went for immediate start. Interview went really well I thought, both interviewers seemed happy with my CV and the answers I gave. eTray was a bit dodgy but OK overall.

Nearly been a week now though and heard nothing back, should I be worried?

pauldoo

you might not hear back for weeks, i think they wait until all interviews are done before making phone calls, i didnt hear back for a month or so when i was offered

ballooba

How much notice did you get of your interview and how long was it?

Running Balance

maninblack wrote: »

Yep, I went for immediate start. Interview went really well I thought, both interviewers seemed happy with my CV and the answers I gave. eTray was a bit dodgy but OK overall.

Nearly been a week now though and heard nothing back, should I be worried?

was this for a graduate position or an ''experienced hire'' position.?
as for your own situation i wouldn't worry yet seemingly (from friends experiences) that anything plus a week is not unheard of.
Best of luck with it!!

Pandoras Twist

Deloitte were pretty quick off the mark for me anyway. Think they rang me a day or two after my interview.

PwC were two or three days

KPMG rang me the next day

ted2767

Pandoras Twist wrote: »

Deloitte were pretty quick off the mark for me anyway. Think they rang me a day or two after my interview.

PwC were two or three days

KPMG rang me the next day

I'd say within two working days is about standard certainly in my experience that is the case.

teddy54321

Would anyone have any tips for a PWC interview? I have one next week. I applied for tax..

forfcksake

Hi all,
I have an interview for deloitte in about 2 weeks in the management consultancy department, I'm in my final year of civil engineering (not really the same I know) if anyone has any tips or has a similar experience (say coming from a different discipline like engineering into deloitte) I would greatly appreciate the help! Cheers

flux011

forfcksake wrote: »

Hi all,
I have an interview for deloitte in about 2 weeks in the management consultancy department, I'm in my final year of civil engineering (not really the same I know) if anyone has any tips or has a similar experience (say coming from a different discipline like engineering into deloitte) I would greatly appreciate the help! Cheers

The good news is that big 4 interviews are competency based.Fairest way of judging candidates..experience counts for little...only that you will not get exemptions from the professional exams.All candidates would be judged based on Deloitte competencies regardless of your engineering background..So dont expect balance sheet or some fixed asset accounting questions. I wouldnt worry too much. Im from an IT background.have an interview with Deloitte on Nov.3

dudara

Be prepared to answer the standard questions - like biggest achievement etc. Try to have some idea of how you expect Deloitte to help you in your career - and also be up to date in a general sense with current business news.

Who Knows?

I have an interview tomorrow. Can anyone give me insight on what it is like working with Deloitte. Does anyone know what tha salary is like for the graduate roles?

Thanks.

Muzi5434

Who Knows? wrote: »

I have an interview tomorrow. Can anyone give me insight on what it is like working with Deloitte. Does anyone know what tha salary is like for the graduate roles?

Thanks.

I've been working at Deloitte for 5 weeks now. Everyone is very nice and easy to approach seniors on any query that I may have. The first three weeks were training and after that went to my first audit. The audit was very good because I asked my senior many questions but he wouldn't get upset about it. Overall, people are great and very helpful.

Can't disclose my salary though, sorry.

massiveattack

Muzi5434 wrote: »

I've been working at Deloitte for 5 weeks now. Everyone is very nice and easy to approach seniors on any query that I may have. The first three weeks were training and after that went to my first audit. The audit was very good because I asked my senior many questions but he wouldn't get upset about it. Overall, people are great and very helpful.

Can't disclose my salary though, sorry.

One trillion dollars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf7uJDhVZIE

In all fairness theres nothing too secret about your salary mate, the same as all new recruits, depending on your qualifications

Muzi5434

massiveattack wrote: »

One trillion dollars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf7uJDhVZIE

In all fairness theres nothing too secret about your salary mate, the same as all new recruits, depending on your qualifications

If it's the same as all new recruits then find out from someone else

Who Knows?

Muzi5434 wrote: »

massiveattack wrote: »

One trillion dollars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf7uJDhVZIE

In all fairness theres nothing too secret about your salary mate, the same as all new recruits, depending on your qualifications

If it's the same as all new recruits then find out from someone else

I have an interview with Deloitte coming up soon. I was excited about them at q college career fair, but now I think it would be the most boring job I could do; consultancy or auditing.... Anybody got any experience with a job there...??

Dellboy2007

Muzi, which area are you in within Audit? Would you mind telling us about your area/role and why you think Deloitte is a good choice for employees. It would be greatly appreciated or even if you could PM me if you don't want to write it publicly.

massiveattack

Muzi5434 wrote: »

If it's the same as all new recruits then find out from someone else

I dont give a shoite as i already know, just saying its nothing special not disclosing it

twitterverse

Does anybody know how long it takes for Deloitte to send rejection emails after interviews??. Has anyone received rejection yet?. Had an interview with them last week.