Open to undergraduates studying any degree subject
who have just started their SECOND year.
We're searching the best universities in the UK to find the current second year who will be crowned the outstanding First Year of the Year. We're looking for a winning mix of personal skills, career motivation and an excellent academic record. The rewards are great: the winner will receive a guaranteed place on Ernst & Young's 2012 six-week summer internship programme and a place at their International Leadership Conference in Florida. The winner will also be able to gain additional insight into our business, culture and campus strategy directly, whilst further developing a network amongst senior people by having lunch with one of our senior partners. He/she will collect the award at a gala event in Canary Wharf, London on 13 April, 2012.
Even if you don’t win, you still stand a chance of making the final shortlist of ten, all of whom will be royally looked after by the sponsor Ernst & Young and invited to the Undergraduate of the Year Awards as their guests.
So if you have just started your second year and studying any degree subject…
And you have a minimum of 300 UCAS points and are expecting at least a 2.1...
And you are available for the summer 2012 internship...
And you think you were (last year) the best first year undergraduate in the UK, click the big button below.
Final closing date for entries
is 31 January 2012.
Please note: the sponsor Ernst & Young will start shortlisting entrants from November onwards so early entry is advised.
How do I win it then?
It’s not easy to win the Undergraduate of the Year Award and competition will be fierce. The process is demanding and only the truly outstanding and committed will make it to the last 10. There are three stages that you’ll have to get through.
Stage One:
Submit your personal data and answer three special questions posed by the sponsor of the Award.
Stage Two:
Complete three online tests designed exclusively by our partners SHL, the world’s leading assessment provider. The online assessment will take you around 90 minutes to complete and somewhere between 30 and 70 candidates will pass through to the next stage. The closing date for entry is 31 January 2012.
Stage Three:
The sponsor will seek to find a shortlist of ten from the undergraduates who pass the first two stages. This will be done in a variety of ways including telephone interviews, assessment centres and further tests (depending on the sponsor). The final shortlist of ten is invited to the Undergraduate of the Year Awards in Canary Wharf London on 13 April where the winner will be announced.
Last year's winners:
Asif Chowdhury and Andrew Moore
Asif arrived in London at the age of 16 from Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is currently studying Economics at UCL. In his first year he won the Ernst & Young Profitunity competition after leading a team of 13 students to run a business for 4 months. He enjoys playing volleyball and watching cricket. He aims to work for a leading Professional Services firm.
Andrew is currently studying for a master’s degree in Physics at Durham University and is from Limavady, Northern Ireland – a small town just outside Londonderry. Andrew aspires to finish study at university in as strong a position as possible to begin a successful career. In his spare time Andrew enjoys competitive sports including rowing, triathlon and rugby and in the winter of 2010 he completed a marathon in less than 4 hours.
Tell me about Ernst & Young
At Ernst & Young we’re committed to helping our people, our clients and the communities around us achieve their potential – it’s how we make a difference.
You might not think you’re the right “type” or that you haven’t studied the right subjects to work here, but there’s a good chance you have. That’s because everyone at Ernst & Young brings different skills and traits with them – some purely technical, others less easily defined. What matters to us and to our clients, is that we all know our strengths and work to them. We are 135,000 people, in 700 locations across 140 countries around the world. We work with our clients on Assurance, Corporate Finance, Tax and Advisory – always aiming to help them realise the potential in their business.
Find out more about Ernst & Young at:
www.ey.com/uk/en/careers
