My Interview To Work For Ernst & Young

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Going into my senior year, I never really thought about what exactly I wanted to do following college. As a double major in business management and marketing, I had a lot of companies and positions to choose from. I finally decided for this assignment that I wanted to be interviewed for a management consultant position. The companies I reached out to were The Boston Consulting Firm, Ernst & Young, and Deloitte. I knew a Monmouth alumni who worked at Ernst & Young so after I didn’t hear back from The Boston Consulting Firm and Deloitte, I reached out to him and scheduled a mock interview at Ernst & Young. I asked him if I could schedule the interview in the middle of the week around 1 or 2pm because when doing research, that’s the perfect time …show more content…
When answering the first question I explained to Mr. Ryan that I wanted to be a part of a company that was well respected and known for being successfully because that’s what I want to be known for in the future. If you’re respected and known to be successful, partners would trust your decisions and follow your lead. Working for Ernst & Young would not only benefit my reputation but the company’s reputation for hiring hard workers like myself.
My prior research played a huge role when I answered the second question. I explained to Mr. Ryan that in five years I saw myself as a senior management consultant for Ernst & Young due to having experience with the company. He was impressed with this answer because not a lot of people getting interviewed look into the future of the company before getting interviewed. He went on to say people he interview usually just say they want to stay with the company at the same position their going
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I never was given a case study in an interview so it caught me off guard. I really didn’t think before answering and probably should have taken my time when explaining to him exactly what I would have done. The question basically dealt with how I would negotiate with a client who wouldn’t budge. After the whole interview Mr. Ryan went step by step with me because since it was a mock interview I told him I never did a case study so he helped me out. After he helped me do the question, I thanked him for his time and handed him one of my business cards. He said he’d be in touch and wished me the best for my senior year. Right before I left, he wrote down his information on a piece of paper and told me to contact him if I ever needed anything. A few days later I emailed him a thank you letter for the mock interview and explained how much it meant to me for taking time out of his day to help improve my interviewing

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