UPH Career Center and Accounting Department Held a Career Workshop with Ernst & Young

Job interview simulation with the UPH Accounting students as Career Workshop participants

As students who are in transition between study life and professional work, they must always be equipped through practical programs, even from the beginning of the uni-life. This was then proven by UPH Career Center through a Career Workshop partnered with UPH Accounting Department that presented Ernst & Young (EY) Indonesia as the keynote speaker with the theme ?How to Excel your Career Path in the CPA (Big Four) Frims?? on 22 May 2015 at MYC UPH. Workshop was delivered by Pandu Dewa Sunu, Assistant Director Talent-Recruitment EY, and was attended by approximately 160 students of UPH Accounting Department.

Ernst & Young is a multinational service firm, based in London, England and is one of Big 4 audit firms in the world, such as Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and KPMG. EY has 190.000 staffs and more than 700 countries in 150 countries. They provide services such as assurance (including financial audit), tax, consultation, and advisory for enterprises.

According to UPH Accounting lecturer, Lina, SE., AK., M.Si., CA, this workshop?s purpose was for UPH Accounting students to understand where their careers are heading to , ?For majority of accounting students, it is a dream job to pursue career in Certified Public Accountant (CPA) that are included in Big 4. Besides, the advantage of pursuing career in Big 4 is that we can understand more types of industry as clients. It is different from working in a particular industry, such as bank, manufacturing, and others, which can only understand one particular industry. So, students could gain more opportunities as well as more challenges in working in a Big 4,? elaborated Lina.

The workshop was comprised of information regarding the CPA in general, the career path, services offered, and others, as well as tips and tricks to apply for jobs, especially in Big 4. Pandu said, generally all multinational companies give high appreciations regarding the work performance, ?If you perform well, you?ll be well-rewarded,? said Pandu. In addition, the participants were trained on how to write effective curriculum vitae (CV), how to look for jobs, how to make use of social media that is connected to professionals from companies that offers jobs, as well as how to create personal brand. This workshop was delivered with an unique method of role play, where the speaker selected several students to play role as interviewer and interviewee in order to show the right and proper techniques on job interview.

?This workshop is useful for students to prepare themselves for work. Hopefully, they could have more insights about EY and they also could take note on what CPA expects from its applicants. This can be applied not only for the CPAs but also for other industries like financials and others. Besides, program like this is specialized only for selected universities that have high-caliber specifications to work for EY, one of them is UPH,? ended Pandu. (el)

Pandu Dewa Sunu, Assistant Director Talent-Recruitment EY

Followings are the testimonies of Career Workshop participants: 

“We can have a big picture on how the work environment is at EY, how to apply for jobs properly, and the standards that we should meet to fully accepted at EY.” Alvina ? Accounting 2013

“This seminar is really great, especially for us who are now entering the last semester. It’s a good thing for us to know how to apply for internship, and what to say on job interview. We were also given the overview of Big 4.” Almanda ? Accounting 2012

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