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From senior manager you either advance to an equity-based partner role or a non-equity director role. At a limited level you may be able to become a specialist leader although these roles are narrow. It generally isn't communicated but a senior manager role is very much an 'up or out' role. You m...

Strategy and Operations, as the name implies, offers a wide variety of experiences. On the strategy side, most clients are looking at way either introduce a new product to an existing market or get the same product to a new market. On the operations side, you look for ways to reduce costs. In S&O...

Be deliberate in everything you do and have the ability to grow where you are planted. You will most likely not be staffed on your dream client at first. Don’t let that bother you. Work hard, deliver well, and you will do well. Network effectively and you’ll do better. Network ineffectively and y...

You’ll start as a team member analyzing and synthesizing information. A team leader will take the synthetic information and develop a story to sell to the client or manager. Once you make SC you’ll stay a team leader and eventually have other team leaders report to you. Managers typically have 1-...

There are times where you need to extend your work hours or work even on weekends, especially during the year ends and quarter ends.

Although I did not pursue further opportunities at Deloitte after my internships, I believe that being proactive, producing high-quality work, having an ability to see a big picture, and establishing a great relationship with your manager and your coworkers are the qualities that set apart succes...

I think it's a great place to start your career. As a student, you may not know what field or company you want to work for but that's why there are internships. I had various internships before I interned with Deloitte, but I chose to sign full time with Deloitte because of their culture and the ...

This question depends on the department you are assigned to, because each department has different tasks and ways of doing things. But I think Deloitte does a great job of letting the interns take ownership in client work.

Interns are highly valued at Deloitte and that is what made my experience worthwhile. Every-step of the way, you keep hearing just how important interns are to the culture because you become the future workforce. Commitment to each-other and your clients becomes important during training and they...

Ask great questions, stay curious, and do not wait for work to come to you; go out and find the work that interests you. Talk to everyone you can and network with everyone.

Just as Senior Solutions Specialists provide coaching and mentoring to junior practitioners, Upper management mentors and coaches SSS’s. At some point, if you want to be promoted to the next level, you need to choose between the management track and the technical track. Technicians typically be...

On the management track it goes from SSS to Solution Manager to Senior Solution Manager to PPD (Principle, Partner, Director/Managing Director). These are the VPs of the company. As you will hear at your Nova graduation ceremony, “the world is your oyster.” Your career is what you make of it,...

So at Deloitte the progression is to typically do an internship while in undergrad or right after finishing undergrad, then going back to school to earn your masters in accounting or really any masters in business. Once you finish the internship and do well, you are offered a full time job, which...

It's pretty fixed, which can be a good thing. As long as you're doing what's expected of you, you can be promoted to Consultant in two year, senior consultant in an additional 2 years, manager in another 2-4 years. Senior manager in another 2-4 years, then racing your way to be partner. Your prom...

People skill, both facing clients and team members. Also Excel skill is very important in improving working efficiency. I would say it's better to be very familiar with things such as PivotTable, data formating, sorting and pairing functions.

My training there was an one week program sitting in a conference room with other interns and listening to lectures. Most of the lectures are about how to use their audit software, so that interns can start to work right away after the training. But it was four years ago and the training probably...

You are the "CFO" for each project making sure all project financial obligations are met by the client and all required financial reporting is provided to Deloitte. You provide accurate forecasts and financial metrics (gpm, burn rate, etc.) to the partner and help them plan future expenditures. A...

Deloitte has done a good job to ensure people have a good work life balance. Expect to work 45 - 50 hours a week on average. After 1 year of working you typically get to work from home 1 - 2 days a week which is an added advantage that is underappreciated. You receive ample vacation days, but be ...

They want to know if you are able to take a project/process from beginning to end and be able to describe any challenges you faced during the process and how you solved those issues. Be sure to outline your role in this process Ability to "multi-task" - A lot of Project Controllers handle multipl...

Plenty. The benefit of creating your own schedule, is that you have the ability to structure your day as you'd like, assuming you work within the "core" hours (i.e. 9-5).