EY Empower - Consulting Graduate Programme 2022

About the Bright Network - EY Empower Programme

EY Empower is a new initiative developed in partnership with Bright Network, specifically designed to support those who come from traditionally under-represented groups in the industry.

If accepted on to the programme, you will be offered in-depth coaching and support throughout the rest of the EY recruitment process, to help you realise your full potential. This will be provided across a variety of formats, including group and 1-2-1 coaching sessions, and sign-posting to relevant upskilling tools and material. 

You will also be able to skip part of the EY online portal stage (learning for a changing world).

EY Empower: Consulting Graduate Programme

Use your inquisitive, collaborative nature to help organisations turn big ideas into business-changing reality.

At EY, no question is too small, too ambitious or too imaginative. We use our curiosity to ask better questions, that inspire better answers.

Gain hands-on experience working with real clients from day one and we’ll support you as you study for a professional qualification or business skills training. This is where you have the chance to build a truly dynamic and varied career, one that springboards off your potential. Where you can build lasting relationships with colleagues, mentors and clients alike. Where the journey is yours to own. Here, your career is truly yours to build. Experience our world. Your way.

In Consulting, our purpose of building a better working world is embodied in our mission to transform businesses through the power of people, technology and innovation. We’re here to guide our clients as consultants and to do this as a skilled and diverse team that is determined to put humans first, deliver the best technology and leverage innovation at scale. For you, this means using your inquisitive mind to create exceptional client experiences. This is how we create long-term value – and long-lasting careers.

What programmes can you join?

Business Consulting - LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM NOW CLOSED

Reimagine and transform businesses by creating growth; managing cost and efficiency; responding to market pressures and regulations; and resolving operational challenges.

Enterprise Risk - Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London & Manchester

Ask questions like ‘what could go wrong?’ and ‘how can we prevent this?’, then create solutions and put them in place.

People Advisory Services - Workforce Advisory - BRISTOL, LEEDS, LONDON, MANCHESTER AND READING NOW CLOSED

Work with a range of technologies, from data analytics software to collaboration tools, to help global and local businesses with their people needs in the digital age.

Technology Consulting - London

Fuse business insight with technology, digital and data solutions to transform our client’s businesses and gain competitive advantage.

Technology Risk - Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London & Manchester

Join forces with our Assurance colleagues to help clients protect their reputation by mitigating these business and IT risks.

Sustainable Finance - Edinburgh Open, London is now Closed

Deliver sustainable long-term value in Financial Services by creating new strategies, a new approach to managing risk, new products and services and new ways of engaging stakeholders.

Quantitative Advisory Services

Bring together a range of quantitative modelling and technical skillsets needed to support our clients’ highly specific and complex requirements.

Technology in Consulting

Our teams fuse business insight with technology, digital and data solutions to stay ahead, transforming businesses through the power of people and innovation. We deliver technology-enabled transformation to our clients and help them generate long-term value.

What will you be doing?

You’ll build a career that’s yours to own. With infinite opportunities to lead, learn and transform, we’ll empower you to build a world as unique as you. You’ll be:

• Working with a variety of clients from start-ups to recognisable organisations
• Listening to client problems and defining strategies and solutions
• Getting to know our client's businesses, their strengths and opportunities for improvements
• Helping our clients plan and deliver organisation-wide transformation programmes
• Collaborating with colleagues across the business

Are you eligible to apply?

If you meet the EY Empower criteria below, you’re in your final year at university, or if you’ve already graduated, this opportunity is for you. 

To be eligible for the EY Empower programme, you must identify within any of the listed groups below:

• A minority ethnic group, including (but not limited to) Black Heritage, Mixed/Multiple Ethnic Heritage and Asian 
• Female
• LGBTQ+
• From a lower socio-economic background
• Identify as having a disability

We operate an open access policy, meaning we don’t screen out applications on your academic performance alone. You will however, need to be working towards an honours degree in any subject - some programmes will require a subject relevant to the business area, and have a minimum of grade 4/C GCSE (or equivalent) in English Language and Maths and three A-levels/Five Highers (or equivalent) to be eligible to apply.

EY welcome applications from all students, regardless of their background. If the above does not apply to you, please submit your application directly - here

The process

To get started, fill in a short initial application form and answer one motivational question by clicking the apply now button. 

If your initial application is successful, you will then receive details of how to access the relevant coaching and support sessions, along with the instructions of how to complete EY’s application portal as an Empower programme candidate.

Once the EY portal is completed and your application accepted, you will then be able to miss the online portal stage (Learning for a changing world). This will shorten the time it takes to complete the full application process by approximately an hour and a half.  

Note: If you’ve applied for EY in the last 6 months, unfortunately you will be unable to apply for this opportunity.

Learn more

Immerse yourself in our world whilst exploring your options at the forefront of business. Get to know the part you could play in our organisation. And discover what it means to experience EY your way.

Find out more about our opportunities and how to apply.

Our world. Your way.