Vacation Employment

What is Vacation Employment?
Vacation employment will provide you with an opportunity to learn more about being a Chartered Accountant, it is an interesting interactive program, the goal of which is to experience what it is a Trainee accountant does.

Vacation Employment Programmes are run in all of our major offices, either during the mid-year vacation in June/July or the year-end vacation between November and February.

What does vacation employment entail?
Students spend between one and two weeks working with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Students who are invited for vacation work for the first time will take part in our induction week which provides them with the opportunity to gain a better understanding of PricewaterhouseCoopers and the auditing environment. Students who are reinvited for vac will be allocated to one of our audit teams and will go out with the audit team to a client. They will be given the opportunity to gain hands-on experience and will be allocated sections of work to complete.

Our induction week is well-known for being an exciting, fun, informative and memorable experience! Students who attend our induction course are equipped with greater knowledge of the firm, the auditing environment and often have made friends for life.
Students who attend our vacation induction course can expect the following:
An introduction to and overview of PricewaterhouseCoopers.

• Teambuilding exercises.
• An introduction to our audit methodology.
• A client visit.
• A fun Afternoon out
• Opportunities to interact with managers and partners

• Students gain the opportunity to apply some of the theoretical knowledge covered at university in a practical setting.
• Students experience what it is like to work at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
• Vacation employment affords students the opportunity to meet and interact with students from other universities.
• Students start to build up a network of contacts within the firm.
• There are definite benefits gained in terms of a broader understanding of auditing concepts and this has assisted numerous students with their studies.