PwC creates over 1000 graduate vacancies

Accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), plans to recruit over 1000 students and graduates in 2010.

PwC plans to 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.

This will come as a relief to students and graduates facing the toughest job market for a decade.Sonja Stockton, head of recruitment at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP says:
“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.”