Early Careers Assessment Support

Top Tip: “Have your qualification details to hand before you begin, such as GCSEs and A Levels.”
- Blair, Early Careers Recruitment team

First, we'll ask you to tell us a little about yourself. This section should only take around 15 minutes and will cover your personal details and educational background. 

We'll assess your application based on the academic requirements outlined in the job description. Typically, for our Graduate and Work Experience programmes, this means you'll need to be on track for or have achieved a 2:1 or higher in your undergraduate degree. For our BrightStart Apprentice programme, you'll usually need to be on track for or have achieved 104 UCAS points from your top 3 A-levels. 

While we'll ask you to provide a breakdown of all your academic qualifications (this helps us understand how well our entry criteria are working), your application will only move forward if you meet the specific grades listed in the job description. 

Important: If you haven't met our academic entry criteria due to extenuating circumstances, please tell us more about this in your application. We'll make sure to consider this when we review your information.

Please complete your online application form in one session, as it won't save your progress if you leave the page. Remember to submit just one application, and please use your personal email address. Using a school, university, or business email, or having a typo, might cause issues. You'll automatically receive a confirmation once it's submitted. If you haven't received it within 24 hours, or if you've made an error, please don't resubmit your application; just get in touch with us instead via our Early Careers Helpdesk chat. 

Once you’ve submitted your application, and as long as you meet the programme requirements, you’ll automatically move through to step 2 – the Immersive Online Assessment. 

Keep your candidate ID safe

You’ll get a unique candidate ID number when you submit your
form. You’ll need to quote this every time you get in touch with us about your application. This can be found on your ‘My Profile’. 

Please note, we recommend frequently checking your spam or junk email inboxes to ensure you don’t miss an update from us – you may also wish to adjust your email settings to add noreplyrecruitment@deloitte.com to your allow list.

Top Tip: “When rank ordering your preferred responses to a
situation, go with your gut instinct, don’t try to second guess what it is we might be looking for.”
- Becky, Early Careers Recruitment team

This stage is an opportunity to get to know you better, and for you to get a real feel for what life at Deloitte is like.

Our assessment is designed to understand your unique strengths and how they could help you thrive here. It's split into two main parts:

1. Behavioural Assessment: Here, we'll present you with realistic workplace scenarios. We'd like you to respond honestly, ranking actions based on how you would most and least likely approach each situation. You'll also answer questions about your preferred working style.
2. Cognitive Assessment: This section includes numerical and verbal reasoning questions.

A few important points:

• There's no overall time limit for completing the assessment. However, we do recommend trying to complete it in one sitting to help you stay focused. 
• Some questions are timed, meaning the speed of your response will contribute to your score. Don't worry, we'll clearly let you know which sections this applies to. 

Ready to prepare? 

We strongly encourage you to visit our Candidate Zone. It's packed with practice assessments and valuable insights that will help you prepare and understand your capabilities.

We know how important feedback is 

After the assessment, you’ll receive a feedback report about your strengths. This isn’t the outcome of your assessment, but it will provide you with valuable advice on how to develop your skills. 

Once you’ve completed the Immersive Online Assessment, we’ll consider your full application and get back to you within four weeks. 

Career Shapers & Aspire applicants 

If you’re a ‘Career Shaper’ or ‘Aspire’ applicant, this is where your application process ends. We’ll let you know if you’ve been successful as soon as possible. 

Top Tip: “Find a comfortable and quiet place to complete the assessment, make sure any housemates or family members also know you're taking an assessment – the last thing you want on your video response is a cameo appearance!” 
- Lax, Early Careers Recruitment team

This assessment is designed to give you a real taste of what it's like to work at Deloitte, focusing on your behavioural skills. You'll experience work-based scenarios where you'll be asked to respond to different types of questions, including:

• Ranking response options in order of preference
• Selecting the most appropriate response(s) from a given set
• Providing written responses
• Recording video responses
• Some scenarios may refer to workplace tools like AI. Please know that you do not need prior AI experience, nor will you be asked to use an AI tool during the assessment. All necessary information will be provided within the question or supporting resources. We're interested in how you think and make decisions, how you solve problems, and consider using AI responsibly in a professional setting, not your technical AI knowledge.

Ready to prepare?  

• Visit our Candidate Zone, it's full of helpful tips and resources specifically for the job simulation.
• Use the in-assessment practice questions to help you get familiar with the technology and format.

We know how important feedback is 

After completing the job simulation, you’ll receive a feedback report about your strengths. This isn’t the outcome of your assessment, but it will provide you with valuable advice on how to develop your skills.

After you’ve completed the simulation, you’ll receive an email letting you know how you did within four weeks. 

Spring Into Deloitte applicants 

If you’re a ‘Spring Into Deloitte’ applicant, this is where your application process ends. We’ll let you know if you’ve been successful as soon as possible. 

Entry Level Apprentices 

You won’t need to do this stage – your online assessment will be rolled up into one assessment called OneStop.

Top Tip: “Our assessors are here to get the best out of you, they are not trying to trip you up or trick you, remember they want you to do well, and you will shine.”  
- Amelia, Early Careers Recruitment team 

The final stage of our assessment is an opportunity for us to get to know you better, and for you to find out more about us.

If you're applying for a Graduate, Entry Level Apprentice, Industrial Placement or BrightStart Apprentice role, your final stage assessment will take place in person at the Deloitte office linked to your application. If you're applying for the Summer Vacation Scheme, your assessment will take place virtually.

In your invite to this stage, you’ll find all the information you need about where and when your assessment will take place. Before you attend, we need you to complete some mandatory preparation which involves researching and conducting analysis on a topic.

The Final Stage Assessment is split into two exercises*:   

1. A discussion about your topic preparation with one of our assessors. This will be a two-way discussion which typically lasts around 30-40 minutes. The assessor will ask questions throughout to help keep the discussion flowing. 
2. A skills and motivation interview where we’ll ask some questions to learn more about your alignment with the capabilities we look for at Deloitte. This usually lasts around 50 minutes.  

Don’t worry – you’ll get all the details beforehand, including what's involved – and we’ll give you plenty of time to prepare. You can also have a look at the Candidate Zone for hints and tips on how to prepare. 

*If you're applying for the, including the Summer Vacation Scheme, you'll complete only one exercise: the skills and motivation interview. Please visit our ‘Discover our selection process’ on the Candidate Zone for more information.   

Once you’ve completed your assessment, you’ll receive feedback which you can use for your continued development. 

At the point we communicate your outcome, we’ll invite you back to the Candidate Zone where there will be follow up information and additional learning resources you can explore, regardless of your outcome.  

Getting a job offer 

If your final stage assessment is successful, we’ll offer you a job and your exciting journey with us really begins. 

If you’re not successful this time 

Should your application not have been successful on this occasion, you’re welcome to reapply. Please note that we only accept one application per intake or academic year (September - August). 

Your feedback or offer 

We will be in touch as soon as we can, either to confirm your success or to offer guidance for future applications. Our aim is to ensure consistent communication with you throughout the entire process.

Integrity 

At Deloitte, integrity is at the heart of everything we do. It's how we've built trust with the businesses we work with, regulators, and the public; and it's fundamental to how we expect you to approach our recruitment process.

Before starting the assessment process, please ensure you carefully and throughly read Deloitte's Integrity & AI guidance. This will help you understand how to approach our assessments and interviews with integrity and how to appropriately use AI tools. Familiarising yourself with these guidelines will ensure a smooth and fair assessment process for everyone.