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Leadership insight to Advance your career
Gaining hands-on experience in the field that you’ve spent so much time studying about is one of the primary benefits of an internship.
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Giving back while launching a career
Individuals with diverse skills and passions not only make for a strong organization, but can also benefit the community. Joining the right organization can help you fulfill your passion to help others and make a difference. This is the story of Adam, someone who was able to balance his desire to help people with disabilities all while launching a career at PwC.
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Networking nitrogen
Networking is an important tool that can open the doors to opportunity. It is about making and building relationships, not just about making connections.
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A look into PwC’s Assurance practice
Professionals in PwC’s US Assurance practice work closely with public and private companies to help solve complex business issues. Serving the public interest, they also support the capital markets system through reliable financial reporting.
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Building Your Personal Brand
Step Up to Stand Out
Building a strong personal brand is critical to helping you stand out in a competitive marketplace. In building your personal brand, you define your individuality, maximize your strengths, and manage your choices to create future opportunities that are in line with who you are and where you want to go. It’s time to take charge of your future and step up to stand out!
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Making an impact on future leaders
As you no doubt know, “Corporate Responsibility” has become a hot phrase in company speak over the last several years. What’s confusing is that it encompasses many different efforts and can mean different things from business to business. For us, a big part is giving back to our communities and doing so in ways that we know will make a difference—both to our communities and to our people.
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Make every minute count
There are some parts of your school schedule you can’t control. Classes, projects, deadlines, and test preparation, just to name a few. Add up enough of these, and time you can dedicate to your schoolwork gets scarcer. While you are likely preparing for finals, On Campus newsletter offers you tips for how to work hard and make it all count when your time is limited.
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Career advice from PwC’s US Chairman and CEO, Bob Moritz
PwC's US CEO and Chairman, Bob Moritz, was recently approached by a new associate in the Atlanta office who had read advice he had given to college freshmen on Reuters.com. The new associate asked if Bob had any specific career advice for someone just starting out at PwC. Bob replied to her directly and then also shared his advice in a blog with all PwC staff through an internal social media platform. Since you are a student who will soon be starting a new career, we also wanted to share Bob's advice with you.
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Grow your own way...in a new city
At PwC, we do our best to help students find positions in the cities they prefer. Our culture of flexibility encompasses geographic mobility and is one way how we help our people grow their own way. On Campus recently caught up with Aaron Lasher and Chelsea Dickinson, two students joining PwC full-time next fall, to talk with them about how they landed career opportunities with PwC in offices that seem unexpected relative to where they are going to school.
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Shaping a career path in PwC US Tax
Professionals in PwC's US Tax Services are drawn from varied backgrounds and have a wide range of skills and experiences. The accelerating pace of tax legislative and regulatory developments and increasingly complex business challenges keep Tax professionals stimulated, motivated, and engaged in their line of work. On Campus newsletter talked to Kirby Huelsebusch, a Senior Associate in Tax Services, and asked her to tell us about her experiences in the practice and how she is shaping her career path in this cutting-edge field.
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Reverse mentoring: Turning the hierarchy upside down
We've all heard about the importance of having a mentor in our careers, someone to help guide us, give us advice, and teach us things we need to know about the business world. Mentoring is not a new concept and has been around in some form or fashion for a very long time. But what if we decided to take a different approach to mentoring, turn things upside down and challenge the traditional approach we've always had to the mentoring relationship?
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Experience growth re-imagined
Professionals in PwC’s Advisory practice bring a diverse background of skills and experiences that enable us to provide our clients with a unique and holistic perspective to their business issues. We talked to Chris Beaumont, a manager in Advisory, about his experiences in a career in consulting at PwC.
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Beyond your typical summer intern experience
Summer internships ideally provide exposure to the working environment, new skills, new connections and the opportunity to gain valuable experiences to help shape the next phase of a student’s career. For 150 interns at PwC, participation in Project Belize also meant spending five days in Belize City, Belize--changing lives by teaching financial literacy to nearly 1,500 students.
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Growing as a leader
How do you grow into a leadership role? At PwC, that’s a question that has many answers. For a firsthand view, we spoke with Sue McPartlin, Amity Millhiser, Niloufar Molavi, and Katrina Salem. We asked these four dynamic leaders about the lessons they’ve learned along the way.
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Changing directions: Stories of unique career paths
Everyone’s career path is different: it’s the stops along your road that make you unique. We asked some of our people if they had a totally different type of career before they joined PwC. Here are a few of the interesting stories we heard from some PwC professionals.
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Summer conference: had me a blast
One of the highlights of summer for PwC is the opportunity to attend the national conventions of three of our most valued professional development partners–NABA, ALPFA and Ascend. These conventions give our partners, principals and staff an opportunity to spend time building relationships, connecting with people in our field from all over the country, and most importantly, meeting students.
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A career building experience
When Rutgers University student Mark Washko registered for a chance to win PwC's personal brand contest in February, he wasn't quite sure what was in store for him. "I was so surprised when my PwC campus recruiter called to tell me I had won. I was really excited for the opportunity to get additional career coaching and guidance, which came at a great time as I am just about to begin my first full-time job," recalled Mark.
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Changing lives
Since first launching Project Belize in 2008, PwC has sent approximately 400 interns, partners, principals and staff to work with ten schools in Belize City, Belize, including 100 intern participants this past summer. We’ve learned that teaming across the firm can change the lives of students, teachers and our people.
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Stress: The unwanted wingman
Stress and students—these two "S" words never seem to stray far from one another. Every student has had some variation of "the dream". You know the one, you're sitting down to take an exam and you realize you haven't read the material or you haven't attended the last three classes, the last ten classes, or even worse, the entire semester. This is just one manifestation of the anxiety that can come with adjusting to a new environment, new relationships, and being faced with tough decisions and difficult challenges, not to mention final exams. College is about change and change can be scary.
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Meet the matchmaker
When it comes to helping students navigate the path from school to work, Megan Lynam says it’s all about finding the right fit. In today’s challenging economic climate, many college students worry about whether they’ll find a job after graduating. But if anyone is well positioned to step straight from commencement ceremonies into a promising career, it’s business and accounting students.
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How to land an internship
Anyone will tell you, the first step to a successful career is getting your foot in the door. And the earlier that foot goes through the door the better. But the question is how to get started?
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An internship to discover what's possible
Every one of the thirty thousand unique individuals who work at PwC has followed his or her own path to get here. Christina Espinoza is no exception. As a sophomore at Northern Illinois University, Christina heard about PwC's Semester of Discovery Internship (SDI) from a former participant and was urged to apply for this internship.
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PwC's internship experience helps open doors
At PwC, we understand how important an internship can be to help you shape a successful and rewarding career. PwC’s internship experience is designed to give you a realistic job preview, as well as a glimpse into opportunities for professional growth and development.
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What's your brand?
Personal branding is critical to your success at school and beyond. It’s the tool that will help you make the right decisions – like choosing a major or selecting the right internship. Knowing and living your brand will help you increase your personal fulfillment and professional achievement.
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Design your own career path
At PwC, we understand how important the first steps outside of college are for your career and recognize our responsibility in helping you reach your long term career goals-- (emdash) whether at PwC or beyond. That's why we work with you to design your own path, because you are truly the only person who knows what is best for your career.
