<p>KPMG called me about 2 weeks after my interview.</p>
<p>Depends on the recruiter, I was notified in 4 weeks.</p>
<p>so if you dont get in, do they tell you that you dont get in?</p>
<p>Pretty much. They will notify you via e-mail.</p>
<p>thank you so much junshik. I am still waiting to hear their response. waiting sucks</p>
<p>Any news? 10char</p>
<p>Thought this group would be interested in a recap of the speech that the E&Y CEO gave at my son’s UG B-school commencement yesterday. He said that although the stereotype of dry and boring accountants persists, the field is more critical and respected than ever, after the Enron scandal, the current recession, recent IPOs (e.g., LinkedIn), and other events that depend on market valuation and financial assurance. He also noted the shift in economic power and in the global workforce from North to South and from West to East. He gave a number of demographic statistics about workforce identification by race, religion, sexual orientation, etc., and said that the graduates’ success in the business world will depend on their ability to work on global teams and to thrive in a diverse workforce.</p>
<p>^^^Just remembered his other key message to graduates. During the recent recession, E&Y conducted a corporate survey to ask how companies planned to weather the downturn. The survey found that Fortune 100 companies planned to retrench whereas startups saw an opportunity for growth and planned to hire staff. His takeaway to graduates was that thinking like an entrepreneur would set them up for career success.</p>
<p>Hi, I am going to be a college freshman in the fall of 2011 and I was wondering are there any internships/externships or summer programs for college freshman or maybe sophomores (as it would be unrealistic for me to suppose that the Big 4 would hire me as a freshman in college)</p>
<p>Great that you’re thinking ahead. If you read this entire thread you’ll see that the Big 4 offer “externships” for the summer after sophomore year. To snag one, it’s important to have an internship after freshman year that’s related to finance/accounting, typically in a corporate accounting or internal controls department.</p>
<p>big 4 is starting some externship programs for summer after freshman year now. I know someone going one in July offered by Deloitte. It’s an all freshmen (rising sophomore) externship program.</p>
<p>Like worrywart said, it is great that you’re thinking ahead when it comes to internships. I haven’t heard too much about internships for freshman, but my advice to you is to beef up your resume as much as possible before it comes time to send it off to the big four. You can improve a resume in many ways from getting involved in an accounting club at your university, having a job with good recs, a strong GPA, and awards. Good luck in the future and hope you enjoy accounting!</p>
<p>I’ll be at PwC’s National Leadership program in Chicago next week. It’s 4 days long. Does anyone know when we interview for the following summer’s internship? Is it at the end of the program, or do we need to interview in the office we want to work (which I already has a visiting day with). If we interview at the end of the program, when can we except to hear back?</p>
<p>Are you going to include these leadership type programs on your resume? I did two but worry that (1) if I don’t put them on, nobody will know I got the two but (2) the firms I didn’t extern at may not want to interview me for an internship if they think I’m tied into the other two firms. Opinions?</p>
<p>Put them on. The other firms will see it as a sign the other firms like you, so they will want you.</p>
<p>Some nice STATS will help.</p>
<p>Its always good to see freshmen already in the game.</p>
<p>There are definitely some programs for freshmen, I know Deloitte had a program for freshmen this year.</p>
<p>Sophomores have the SLP’s (Summer Leadership program) for their summers. I was part of KPMG’s local SLP, nothing special really imo unless you go to one of the national programs.</p>
<p>I am also interning this summer at a CPA firm (summer before 3rd year).</p>
<p>So get experience where you can, but at the same time have fun. Freshmen year is meant to have fun!</p>
<p>Hey just a quick question. I’m an older student starting college, age 25 as a sophomore. I’ve been kind of stressing to whether or not being “old” is a turnoff to the Big 4 when it comes to competitive programs such as this. During the gap between high school at college, I worked for a friend’s dad’s business. I was hoping that “real world experience” would help boost my resume, but I wasn’t sure how they view that type of thing. Does anyone have any insight on any of this? Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>The biggest potential issue I see here is instead of seeing being “old” as a turnoff to the big 4, will you be okay taking orders from people younger than you? </p>
<p>Its great to have real-world experience, but quite honestly these days, LOTS of students have real-world experience- they work during the summers, they work part-time and etc.</p>
<p>The big 4 are looking for students that are easily teachable, students that they can groom from the start. They don’t care what kind of knowledge you come in with, they will teach the students everything they need to know.</p>
<p>Hope this helps!</p>
<p>FWIW, I’m 43, and have had recruiters tell me to go ahead and go for Summer Leadership programs this summer (I’m equivalent of a 3rd year student in a 150-hour BAcc/MAcc program)…many get intern offers out of these “externships”, and all of the Big 4 told me they’ve have students at these programs that were older than me. They worry more that the older student has trouble dealing with competing with much younger students, but I tell those recruiters that I work with them every day in school, and compete just fine. 
The worst thing that can happen is that you don’t give it a shot, and miss out on a potential opportunity because you didn’t try. 25 or 45, no reason to not give it your all.</p>