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Grant Thornton Bristol welcomes its largest intake of graduates and leavers
Grant Thornton UK LLP has opened up 21 new positions at its Bristol office.
It comes as part of its largest ever nationwide intake of graduates and school leavers.
For the first time, nationally, the firm’s audit department has seen more school leavers than graduates for this new recruiting program.
On the scheme, Jonathan Riley, practice leader for Grant Thornton UK LLP in the South West, said: “At Grant Thornton, we’ve been evolving our approach to identifying talent, with more of a focus on future potential and strengths, as opposed to past achievements and academic profile.
“Our emphasis on increasing our school leaver intake has allowed us to access a new, diverse talent pool that we would previously have been missing.
“The school leaver apprenticeship route offers an excellent path into the profession for young students.
“Our school leavers develop into well rounded business advisers, gain an internationally recognised qualification and become professionally qualified a year ahead of their peers who choose to go to university and then join our graduate programme.”
The new starters will join a variety of departments across the South West business, including commercial audit, tax, public sector audit, forensics, and VAT.
This year, a record number of new school leavers and graduates will be starting their careers at Grant Thornton, with a combined total of 496 people joining the firm.
Of this, a total of 213 school leavers will join firm’s apprenticeship programme. This latest intake is a 13 per cent increase compared to 2022 (188) and the highest number ever to join the firm in one admission.
Kiera Spicer, a 18-year-old school leaver starting at Grant Thornton this year as an audit associate and is the first person in her family to go on to further education said: “I initially came across Grant Thornton when looking for work experience in the accounting industry, and successfully got on to their online work experience.
“I was attracted to the atmosphere at the company and how every person I met was proud and happy to be working there.”
Main photo: Grant Thornton
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