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What advise would you give to someone who has completed a science degree but is looking to go into business consulting?

I have completed a BSc Bikmedical Science and MSc in Biochemistry. I have some exposure in project management and I have completed the Prince 2 foundation course.

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  • Author: Hamza P.
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  • Anonymous

    Hi Hamza, business consulting takes people from all degree backgrounds

  • Anonymous

    A lot of what we do uses the analytical skills you gain from a STEM degree

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    Hamza P. Candidate

    Is there any specific things that you would advise to read up on to gain knowledge to include in the application, or anything I could maybe gain some experience in prior to the lives become live again?

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    Hamza P. Candidate

    Something that would stand out?

  • Anonymous

    Your exposure to project management will stand out

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    Hamza P. Candidate

    I have coordinated client projects in a furniture company, currently I am employed as a project support officer by the NHS, the project involved the migration from the current system called civics Paris to a new system called TPP System One

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    Hamza P. Candidate

    I am also hoping to complete Prince 2 practitioner very soon

  • Anonymous

    Any courses you can do on data would be beneficial as this is a real focus for the firm

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    Hamza P. Candidate

    Is there any particular courses you would recommend?

  • Anonymous

    SQL and Python are both very popular and there's lots of free courses on these available

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    Hamza P. Candidate

    Or would something like LinkedIn courses look good?

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    Hamza P. Candidate

    I will definitely look out for them

  • Anonymous

    LinkedIn courses are also valuable :)

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    Hamza P. Candidate

    I will look into them on LinkedIn

  • Anonymous

    Good Luck!

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    Hamza P. Candidate

    I graduated from my MSc in 2018, is there a cap to when you stop being considered for graduate schemes?

  • Anonymous

    Not at all, we accepted applicants from any year of graduation.

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    Hamza P. Candidate

    That’s good to hear

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    Hamza P. Candidate

    Just seen a notification there’s 10 mins left, I did have a question but I’ve gone completely blank

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    Verity P. Employer Brand Advisor

    No worries Hamza - we're hear until 17.30pm

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    Hamza P. Candidate

    Thank you, hopefully it might come back to me haha

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    Hamza P. Candidate

    This might be a graduate scheme live chat , but is their any experience hire route I could potentially take to get into consulting at EY?

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    Verity P. Employer Brand Advisor

    Hi Hamza - please check out all of our available roles for experienced hire at ey.com/uk/careers

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    Hamza P. Candidate

    Thank you all for taking your time out to answer our questions, the question still hasn’t come back to me, so if you don’t mind I might contact you via LinkedIn if I do recall the question, it would most likely be for Sam

  • Anonymous

    No problem
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