Ace Your BIG 4 Assessment Centre with These 7 Simple Steps (PwC, EY, Deloitte, KPMG) 

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The more I watch or read about it, the more tensed up I become. I have an assessment centre tomorrow. I think I will just enjoy the wind and sleep quietly 😀

I have a couple of friends going through this process a the moment so this will be useful for them!

Hi James, I just wanted to thank you for all your videos. I watched all of them and I’ve learnt so much. They really helped me to prepare for assessment assessment centre and I am starting PwC graduate scheme in September… you give invaluable advice and I cannot thank you enough

Thanks a lot James for the wonderful video and really helpful advice !

I've recently accepted an offer from KPMG to join them on their Audit apprenticeship programme! I wanted to thank you for producing your content -- it's truly insightful and motivational, and I was able to leverage so many of my learnings during my recruitment process to demonstrate my understanding and passion. I can't wait to build my Big 4 career and open up a world of opportunity both during my apprenticeship and again upon qualification.

Useful advice, I completely agree

Wow this video is very helpful, I wish I watched it before applying for the B4 career but I am still thankful.

This video is amazing thank you so much for making it.

I’m already through the process, but this would have been very useful a couple of months ago!

Hi James, I had my assessment centre a couple of weeks ago and the group work was so difficult because 2 of my team members hardly wanted to communicate and ignored one another. I was constantly trying to get them to make a contribution. We ran out of time because one of them insisted in making the presentation, and we hardly had any time to improvise as a result (despite the fact that I was very conscious about time). By the end, we went through with the 20 minute presentation without having had improvised, and managed to do it. But, there were a few awkward moments with taking turns to speak. I made sure to clarify the task with my members and checked with them before I added points. I am nervous about whether the quality of the actual presentation will matter (all the information was there and we managed to analyse well). Honestly, I struggled with the team members. I tried to include them in everything, but they were so keen to work independently. One of them didn’t even bother passing me the case study papers, as he was busy scanning through them himself. I was very frustrated, but couldn’t say much. I didn’t want to be too assertive. I also think that I did terrible at the excel test. That has to be my only failing. Will this impact my outcome, do you reckon? I thought that the interview and everything else went well..

Great advice - love to hear it 👏

Thanks for this i watched this before my assessment centre and i got an offer thank you!!!

I have my assessment centre in 3 days. Would you say they are less likely to want you if you stutter. I don’t have a stutter but when nervous tend to struggle to say words. Think I can do all the points said in the video just may go umm some of the time. Although I will try to stop this as much as I can by knowing what I want to say before saying it

I was looking for such an educative video. Am preparing for a KPMG group assessment exercise tomorrow

Where was this advice when I applied!? Amazing, actually so good to iron out the ugly overly competitiveness trait. Easily done!

watching this just b4 my AC, so. nervous. its my first ever AC, and i struggle with social anxiety so group exercises tend to overwhelm me. I will come back and update on the outcome, fingers crossed I get in!

This was really helpful i will using this tomorrow for PwC, hope it goes well

Please make video about in which graduate program one should apply if someone's ultimate goal is to move to investment banking after getting experience of 3 or 3.5yrs from big4 ?

Hi James can you please coach me for my upcoming group exercise? Thanks

The BGM is so annoying. With the information I need to process, I find it annoying to first filter it thru the music and then process the info. Is this how the info disseminated in the big 4?