Hi Abigail. When our programme says UK&I, that is literally just a way we describe our side of the business that does not deal with financial services clients! Our business is split between FS clients and UK&I (every other industry) but that does not mean that you will be restricted in international travel opportunities in any way. You may still be working on clients from an industry where they happen to have international operations where you could have the opportunity for travel.

16 April, 2020 15:37

Hope this helps!

16 April, 2020 15:37

Hi Rachel, thank you that is a lot clearer!

16 April, 2020 15:39

I applied for a graduate position in Assurance and have been told that I will be joining the GPS team if I am successful. Does this mean I will be in that team for the whole of my graduate programme - or is this just where I will start?

16 April, 2020 15:44

So usually if you join a team you will be there for the entire graduate programme, as you will often do particular training/qualifications that are specific for that team. There are usually opportunities to move service lines/do secondments later in your career once you have finished your training contract and are no longer on the training contract.

16 April, 2020 15:46

Hope this helps!

16 April, 2020 15:46

Thanks!

16 April, 2020 15:47

Oh great question. Further to that - Rachel, could I ask - if I am successful in my graduate application, how would I be allocated a certain industry? Would I give preferences or would this be something EY recruiters determine?

16 April, 2020 15:48

I guess Abigail, if you have experiences of that too then great!

16 April, 2020 15:49

Hi Andrei, so where there is the option of FS and UKI within an office and service line then you could select a preference of UKI or FS and we try accomodate this as far as possible.

16 April, 2020 15:51

If you are applying to a regional office (any office outside of London) you aren't allocated a particular industry within UKI, you will work on a variety of clients across different industries. If you apply to London then when you join you will be allocated an industry to work on and I believe this is just allocated by the business based on need.

16 April, 2020 15:52

I have applied to a regional, so I am not sure why I was allocated a specific industry, I also didn't have any imput into which team it would be.

16 April, 2020 15:53

I suppose I am wondering what the advantage is of being allocated a specific industry so early in the proggramme, both with regard to myself and to EY?

16 April, 2020 15:55

GPS is slightly different where it's not considered a particular sector in terms of type of client (energy, manufacturing, etc) however yes we do have a separate GPS practice and you may have been allocated there as that was the team which required a graduate this year?

16 April, 2020 15:57

Thank you Abigail and Rachel, very helpful. And that's also another great question Abigail. Obviously Rachel is the expert, but from my view it helps EY because they cover a specific business need, and it helps you because I take it that if you have demonstrated to be adaptable, then clearly you are fit for purpose :)

16 April, 2020 15:57

I would say the advantage of this is being able to specialise in that area and really focus on the differences in these government and public sector clients compared to private sector clients! They will be going through a lot of change and interesting adaptations given the current covid-19 circumstances too so will require a lot of help from professional services companies like us!

16 April, 2020 15:58

Thank you both, this has been really helpful!

16 April, 2020 15:58