Experienced hire

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I do want to stay here for a while.  One of the things that I was quite interested in when I joined, was I was told quite clearly: "We would like you to do this role for about 18 months, two years, and you will move on to something else."  And other people I’ve spoken to have been doing roles for 18 months, two years, three years, and have been in the firm for maybe 14 years, so within that span would have done a variety of roles, which again is quite unique.  In most firms you would go in, you go in in a particular role, and you stay there.  And I think it’s positively encouraged for you to move around, get a diversity of experience and do different things.  That really appeals to me, because I do have quite a restless personality, so doing the same job for five years – I just would quite struggle with it.  So the notion that actually if I can do this, and do it really well for 18 months, two years, and do something else – that’s really good!

If you’re like me, you’re at a certain stage in your life, you’ve had a couple of roles in different places, you’re clear and honest with yourself about what you like and what you don’t like, about your strengths and the things that you are not so good at - I think working for Ernst & Young is a mature decision to make.  It’s not, oh, I’m coming out of university and I’ll take where I can make the most money, or partner track, or whatever.  It’s a different decision.  I think it’s more about what are my values, or what are the values of the firm that I want to work with, and what are the people like?  Do I like the people that I work with?  Do I like the work that I’m doing?  Are there things that I can do myself by talking with the people that I work with to enrich the job that I do day-on-day?  Do I have a sense of what the future holds?  Because I think one of the reasons why people sometimes leave firms is because they think, where is this going?  I don’t know,  but I think working here, there are so many possibilities.  I talk to different people who come and talk to me about the campaign and things like that, and I just think, God, that’s… you know, their eyes light up when they are talking to me about the roles that they play, and I think – I don’t want to sound too evangelical about it, but I’ve not seen that – I’ve not seen a lot of it, anyway.