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I would call them and see what's going on... KPMG Melbourne were certainly very quick in contacting all of us post-AC, not sure about Sydney but I can't imagine it would take much longer than a week!

Two weeks...? That is really short!! The shortest I've heard about so far was 4 weeks in EY, which was already considered to be reasonably short and was due to certain specific divisions. My placement is 8 weeks... which means if I start on the date they unofficially nominated to me, then I'll...

I didn't have an interview with any partners but I was interviewed by two senior members of the division I was applying for (this was at the AC). I received my offer after that.

Uni Eco is definitely very quantitative. There is still the conceptual stuff but there's a lot more numbers and maths applied to all the theory. I'm not sure what other uni's are like but here at Melbourne even the first year (compulsory) Eco subjects weren't that good an indication of what...

Response times seem to vary between firms and even within them. I got my offer 15 minutes after I left the Assessment Centre (this is KPMG Advisory in Melbourne), whilst I have friends who applied for EY who had to wait a week before they were called back. Then and again they were notified by...

The option maybe... but whether he has the right to waste the time of everyone involved in the recruitment process, and the right to take up a cadetship which other people desperately want but is merely through to be a safe backup plan, then that's another story.

Oooh! Congrats on EY babygetshaky! I have heard nothing but good things about them, heh. What division are you in? And that's really really quick - only one week between putting in your app and getting the position? Whoa. Out of curiosity, when's the deadline for you to sign your contract? I...

I dunno, if you applied near the closing date (you said March 31 IIRC?) it's really only been around a week since they received your app, so I don't think it's unreasonable for them not to have contacted you yet. PwC and EY both took over two weeks to get back to me after I applied, and I sent...

I've done the KPMG online tests for the vac program, I think they're the same though. I got a call back the next business day (did it on a Friday, heard back from them on the Monday) but this was fairly early on in the application process so it wouldn't surprise me if it takes them longer to get...

The PwC application process was pretty simple from what I recall (definitely shorter than the vac work apps process!) but then and again I didn't get through the online app phase so I don't know what happened after that :P Congrats on the Deloitte group interview invite La Divina! :) They...

Yep! I was really relieved that they let me start later. I suppose it helped that Government Advisory isn't that big so I'm pretty sure they only take on one vacationer, so logistically that makes it easier as opposed to having different vaccers starting at different times in the same division...

That's odd... wonder why she got contacted early then. Yeah, I definitely regret not applying for the Development Program... I didn't get clued into all this career-head-start stuff till after apps closed :P This rolling recruitment business seemed a bit unfair to me at first too, but then...

Did Deloitte really only start calling after apps closed? Because I have a friend who has an assessment centre for Deloitte on Monday and she said she was called about a fortnight ago. Then and again she was part of their Development Program so maybe the process is a bit different for them...

I don't study Actuarial Studies but I'm doing a BCom and my breadth subjects are the Accelerated Maths subjects that most Actuarial kids take, so a bunch of my friends are doing Actuarial. Or were doing it. Yes, the dropout rate is fairly large - just from personal experiences probably about...

Thanks John :) I was really surprised at how quickly everything happened actually, they were pretty efficient! They called me 15 minutes after I finished at the assessment centre; I thought I'd left something behind at their offices haha. Applications opened in Melbourne on March 1, although I...