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PWC Interview Questions: What Do You Consider To Be Your Strengths?

This document lists typical interview questions that may be asked by PwC during a job interview for graduate roles. The questions cover a range of competencies including the candidate's strengths and development areas, reasons for leaving previous jobs, time management, dealing with difficult work experiences, motivations for joining PwC, knowledge of PwC's business, career goals, achievements, interests outside of work, views on the graduate role, mistakes made, teamwork experiences, other job applications, PwC's value to clients, preferred divisions, qualifications, working to deadlines, leadership examples, conflict resolution, industry developments, expectations for the first year, and discussing recent financial news.

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PWC Interview Questions: What Do You Consider To Be Your Strengths?

This document lists typical interview questions that may be asked by PwC during a job interview for graduate roles. The questions cover a range of competencies including the candidate's strengths and development areas, reasons for leaving previous jobs, time management, dealing with difficult work experiences, motivations for joining PwC, knowledge of PwC's business, career goals, achievements, interests outside of work, views on the graduate role, mistakes made, teamwork experiences, other job applications, PwC's value to clients, preferred divisions, qualifications, working to deadlines, leadership examples, conflict resolution, industry developments, expectations for the first year, and discussing recent financial news.

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PwC Interview Questions

● What do you consider to be your strengths?


● What are your development areas?
● Why do you want to leave your present job?
● How do you structure your time at university ensuring you balance your personal life?
● Tell me about a difficult experience at work and how you dealt with it.
● What made you decide to join this Professional Service?
● What do you know about our business?
● Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years?
● What are your major achievements to date?
● What do you do in your spare time?
● Describe how you see the role of a graduate at PwC?
● What is the biggest mistake you have made? What did you learn from this mistake?
● Tell me about a time when you have worked in a team? What was your role?
● Have you applied for any other graduate jobs?
● How does PwC add value to its clients?
● How is PwC Assurance divided and in what division would you like to work? (see PwC Audit
& Assurance)
● Tell me what you know about the qualification which you will be studying?
● Explain when you have been in a situation where you were working towards a deadline and
the parameters have been changed? (i.e. you have been asked to deliver something slightly
different)
● Give me 2 examples of when you have worked in a team to achieve a goal. (Teamwork)
● Give me 2 examples of where you have had to lead a team. (Teamwork)
● Give me 2 examples of where you have been in a situation of conflict, and explain how you
choose to do the right thing.
● Can you discuss any recent developments which have strongly affected PwC and the
accounting industry? (Commercial Awareness)
● What do you anticipate you will be doing in your first year at PwC?
● What can you tell me about the (ACA) qualification to which you have applied?
● What can you tell me about the line of work to which you have applied?
● What do you think you will be doing in your first year at PwC?
● Discuss a recent piece of financial news that has been in the press?

Typical questions arising from these competencies would be:

● Why do you want to work for PwC? Why PwC instead of another Big 4 firm?
● Where do you see yourself in 5 years time? At PwC, in 5 years you can reasonably expect to
finish 'Manager' position and be moving into managing staff and clients on your own.
● What recent events have affected PwC and the accounting industry? (This would include the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act).
● What factors do you think are important to make a successful business?
● If you were senior partner at PwC, what would keep you up at night?
● Give me an example of a business you think is performing well/badly and explain why you
think this is so?
● If you had £1 million, how would you invest it?

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PwC Interview Questions
● Tell me about a time when you have had to motivate someone?
● Tell me when you learnt something new?
● Tell me about a time when you have to resolve a disagreement diplomatically.
● What/where do you expect to be in 5 years?
● If you met the CEO of M&S and were asked for advice from an auditory point of view, what
would you say?
● If you were unsuccessful with PwC what would you do?
● Give two examples of when you've had to make and stick to a budget.
● Tell me about a time you had to deal with rejection.
● Tell me about a time when you convinced others with your point of view.

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