Our campus events kicked off this week. Across the course of
this academic year the Deloitte Student Recruitment team will run
over 1,000 events on campuses the length and breadth of the UK. We
have literally just said goodbye to our summer students on Friday,
and the following Monday it all starts again as we travel up to
Edinburgh for our first event of the new season.
The nature of the work we do is very cyclical and changes
depending on whether students are at school or university or on
their holidays. We open our doors to applications on 1st
July (with a 1750 hiring target, we need 15 months to identify and
on-board the required calibre and volume of candidates) and we have
noticed candidates applying earlier and earlier. So we use the last
term at school and university to promote our 1st July
opening for our programmes beginning the following autumn (2014 in
this case). The summer months see us hosting over 350 summer
interns, assessing the early bird