Shape the future of public infrastructure.
Programme overview
On the Business Consulting Industrial Placement, you’ll shape the future with confidence by helping organisations navigate disruption and transform how they operate. Working in collaborative teams, you’ll combine business insight with technology, data and innovation to solve complex challenges. As a Shaper of the future, you’ll build future-ready skills while delivering lasting value for clients.
Core skills for success
- Analytical thinking — interpret data, trends and evidence to develop insights that inform strategy and transformation.
- Problem solving — break down complex client challenges into practical solutions that improve performance and efficiency.
- Collaboration — work with diverse teams and clients to deliver shared outcomes.
- Critical thinking and judgement — assess options, risks and implications to support well-informed recommendations.
- Adaptability — respond to changing client needs, industries and project demands with confidence.
- Digital fluency — use technology, data and tools to support transformation and deliver smarter ways of working.
What you will be doing
- Working across a range of capabilities including: Business Transformation, Studio+, Finance, and Supply Chain & Operations.
- Working with clients across industries to support transformation projects and deliver business impact.
- Analysing client challenges and industry trends to help shape strategies and solutions.
- Developing proposals and recommendations that support decision-making and growth.
- Collaborating with teams and clients using insight, data and technology to improve performance.
Eligibility for applying
If you’re in your penultimate year at university and your course includes a placement year, this programme is for you.
You will need to be working towards an honours degree in any subject, have a minimum of grade 4/C GCSE (or equivalent) in English Language and Maths, or in your home language if you do not hold English Language GCSE, and three A-levels/Five Highers (or equivalent) to be eligible to apply.
While we welcome applications from candidates of all academic backgrounds, we are looking to recruit individuals who will succeed at EY in the role and future qualifications. We have completed several studies on academic attainment at A level (or equivalents), candidate performance in the online assessments in the EY recruitment process, and how that predicts future performance at EY.
Throughout the recruitment process, we therefore assess your suitability for the EY role you have applied to by considering your scores in the online assessments and your academic attainment at A level or equivalent. This approach is designed to ensure our joiners are successful in role and, where relevant, in the achievement of their professional qualifications. It is important to EY, and we have a duty of care which we take very seriously, to ensure our joiners are set up for long-term success.
We are also proud to partner with RARE recruitment, so that your application can be processed in the context of your socio-economic background. This allows us to give you the maximum credit for your achievements, assessing whether you have overachieved in light of your personal circumstances.