According to a report in today’s Times, EY (the sparsely rebranded - and now near-impossible to search on - Ernst & Young – see here) is to hire 1,300 students, over one-third of the 3,700 staff it intends to hire in the UK over the next 9 months. The vast majority of the students will be graduates, but the intake will also include 150 school-leavers. The hiring was prompted in part by an increase in demand in the UK financial services sector for advice on ‘big data’ analytics and cybersecurity.
According to the report, rival PwC has hired 1,100 graduates and KPMG some 650, though there was no mention as to whether either of these firms took any school-leavers.