If you open job websites now, you will find a bunch of vacancies with approximately the same requirements for entry-level positions. But when you check other company vacancies, it becomes clear that for the specialist level, the requirements already look like an insurmountable obstacle, such as work experience in the specialty.
This means that at the beginning you have quite a few opportunities and companies where you can start your career, but over time you need to gain experience and build a vertical career. That’s why companies provide intensive training and help you acquire skills that universities don’t teach. This helps students to get a specialization and first experience after the internship, and helps companies to get a specialist that meets their requirements or to increase the number of specialists they find difficult to find.
But things are a bit more interesting with consulting companies
The difference lies in different professional services. As a reminder, audit and consulting companies are organizations that provide services in financial statement auditing, tax consulting, risk management, strategic planning, organizational development, and other business areas. For example, BDO in Ukraine provides more than 200 different services for clients. And each area is developing dynamically, new areas are being created. And if you think about how to implement 200 different programs and keep them up to date, it is not an easy task. Therefore, most consulting companies open several sets of interns to train the specialists they need, select the best ones and offer them a permanent position.
Working in audit and consulting companies can bring many benefits to young professionals, including:
- Opportunity to work with a variety of projects and clients, which allows you to gain valuable experience, broaden your horizons and improve your analytical, communication and creative skills.
- Opportunity to learn from the best experts in the field, receive professional support and mentoring, as well as access to the latest technologies and methodologies.
- Opportunity to develop your career and receive high salaries, bonuses and social guarantees. Audit and consulting companies highly value their employees and create conditions for their professional growth and recognition.
- Opportunity to build a strong network of contacts and establish long-term relationships with colleagues, partners and clients. Working in audit and consulting firms gives you the opportunity to communicate with representatives of different cultures, industries and functions, which broadens your horizons and opens up new opportunities.
- Ability to balance work and personal life by choosing a flexible schedule, working remotely or in the office, the ability to travel and relax. Audit and consulting companies care about the well-being and satisfaction of their employees and provide them with various options to ensure a comfortable and productive working environment.
We at BDO in Ukraine have gone even further. Choosing a position immediately for the first time and for life sounds like a very responsible decision. That’s why we want to help you with this choice and we have developed an internship where you build your own portfolio of assignments. By completing several tasks in different areas, it is easier to understand what you prefer. When you perform simple tasks, you will be trained with an understanding of what you need to do.
We are confident that if you have been studying diligently, your level of knowledge will be enough to try the initial tasks in different areas. You don’t need to take complicated courses. It is enough to have a desire and basic training and, if you like this area, continue to study deeper, get a specialization or try something else.
What matters to us is your desire, willingness to develop and responsibility.
Why are consulting companies interesting?
Our company is flexible and people-oriented. We built the internship on the principles of “people helping people achieve their dreams”.
Someone came with a desire to get into a specific area and got the position he wanted, some interns realized that the areas, they have chosen during the first interview, were less interesting than they thought and chose something else, and some moved on to areas they were not even interested in. It is important for us that you feel comfortable on this path and that it helps you make up your mind.
Therefore, we invite you to join our internship, send your resume or write clarifying questions to cvteam@bdo.ua.
