PwC Careers Talk

Today we had an inspiring talk about working for PwC from Mr Varun Sharma - Senior Associate. He spoke to our Y5&6 pupils about:

• What PwC is and who it works with
• The size and scale of the business
• The different teams and roles that are within the company
• Possible routes into the business: leaving from school or graduate recruitment
• Life skills that you need in order to be successful

It was interesting to hear how Mr Sharma has worked so hard with his maths skills. When he told us how he was able to understand difficult ideas because he practised regularly it made me feel I could do that too. 

Isaac Stevens

Mr Sharma was very impressed with the three pupil values that we uphold everyday. 

Your pupil values are excellent skills for when you have a job. If I didn't turn up on time every day then pretty soon I wouldn't have a job to go to. In fact, my motto is that if you are early for work, or a meeting, then you are on time. If you are on time then you are already late!

Our pupils also learnt about how PwC is a company that provides amazing training opportunities for its associates: team building days, support from colleagues and the chance to travel overseas.

It sounds like a very exciting company to work for and I will definitely think about them in the future. I had no idea that they were so big! In our school it seems huge and there are only 45 employees. Mr Sharma said that PwC have over 200,000.

Emma Bloy

It was great to hear the positive feedback from the children after the talk today. Once they had a chance to reflect on the content, the talk seems to have had a positive impact:

• 100% agreed that they were inspired to work harder in Maths (73% strongly agreed)
• 90% agreed that they had a better understanding of how to work for a professional firm
• 100% agreed (83% strongly agreed) that they had a better understanding of how the pupil values and 4R skills are vital in the workplace.