Sixty new recruits will start their two-year apprenticeships in PwC’s tax division next month, making the firm the first to offer places under the new government-sponsored professional services Higher Apprenticeship framework. The aim of the framework is to provide 1,500 higher apprenticeships in tax, audit and management consulting by March 2015.
On-the-job training, coaching and assessment will give new recruits a work-based route into the professional services sector. While working, they will undertake a qualification with the Association of Tax Technicians.
Gaenor Bagley, head of people and a partner at PwC, enthused, ‘The programme reflects our commitment to widening access to the profession, encouraging social mobility and offering top quality school leaver career opportunities. Last year we signed up to the government’s Business Compact on Social Mobility because we think it is vital to encourage diversity, to reflect the communities we work in and the clients we have.’
As we commented when we first broke the news about this alternative route into professional services, since the Big 4 continue to increase their graduate intake year on year, current students should see these programmes less as competition and more as an opportunity for greater diversity in the firms they choose to join.
Source: Targetjobs.co.uk, Tuesday 12th June 2012
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