Posts Tagged ‘Business Experience Programme’

The last 2 days of BEP went by in a jiff. Thursday kicked off with a Q & A session with the auditing clerks, and in between numerous questions, we managed to gauge a salary bracket out of them… and boy, was it depressing! The starting net salary for a first year clerk is just [...]

BEP Day 3

Posted: November 24, 2010 in Life
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This is going to be a relatively short post because I am utterly exhausted – not so much by the day’s events, but rather by the 60 minutes I spent in traffic when the trip should have taken 15. Watching the numerous taxis speed past in the yellow lines didn’t help improve my mood either. [...]

It started off as a pretty chilled day with a series of talks from the various departments within Ernst & Young. Some interesting pointers to note: The IT Department: – A place where the computer geeks congregate and their services include (but are not limited to): free technical support and the occasional provision of eye-candy. [...]

BEP Day 1

Posted: November 22, 2010 in Life
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Today was the first of Ernst & Young’s Business Experience Programme, and “suitably impressed” would have been an understatement. Having now experienced the cultures and ethos of two of the Big Four auditing firms, I must admit E&Y has made a far better impression than the other. While the offices looked roughly the same, it [...]