Deloitte Application Process
The Deloitte application process includes a number of different segments including
- Deloitte application form
- Deloitte's Online tests/immersive Assessments
- Deloitte's Interviews
- Deloitte's Assessment centre
Find more details below on the various possible assessments at each stage and how to best prepare. You may experience some variations, especially in professional hires recruitment processes.
Deloitte Online Application Form
The Deloitte online application form is your opportunity to introduce yourself to the recruiters.
You are asked to give information about your education, career motivation, and work experience.
Make sure that you fill in every section and that you provide enough information for each new question. However, remember to keep the information relevant.
Before you begin filling in the form, ensure that you fulfill the academic and other entry requirements.
For example, for a graduate position, you need to have graduated within the last few years, and you must also have at least one month’s work experience, paid or unpaid, in any field.
Don’t forget to save a copy of your application before you submit it as you should review it before every interview you have.
For some applications, particularly veterans in the field, you may be required to submit a CV.
Before submission, tailor your CV to Deloitte and the position for which you are applying.
What To Emphasize On Your Application
Throughout the recruitment process, your aim should be to ensure that you reference the attributes Deloitte is looking for in each of its applicants.
For example, as part of your Deloitte application, you may be asked to write 100 bullet points on why you want to work for Deloitte.
While these questions are motivationally based, you must also include the reasons why you want to work there. What this means is that you have to incorporate your answers with the Deloitte key competencies.
- Communication
- Achievement of goals
- Commercial awareness
- Career motivation
- Planning and organisational skills
- Adaptability
- Problem-solving
Deloitte Online Tests/Immersive Assessments
After filling out the Deloitte application form, you will be required to take one or more of their online assessment tests.
These tests are either psychometric or skills-based tests depending on the position you are applying.
As of late, Deloitte's "Immersive Online Assessments" has taken centre stage:
In this Deloitte online test, you will be presented with photographs and situations you may face in the workplace.You will find that the test uses several question variations.
In the example below, you will find four different responses available, and you must decide how you would best respond to the scenario.
SJT sample question:
You are working as a tax consultant and have been part of the department for a couple of weeks. Dave, one of your team members, has fallen ill and is absent from work today. You receive an urgent phone call from the financial director of one of Dave's big clients, who sounds extremely frustrated. They are in the midst of their quarterly tax report and have discovered difficulties understanding some of Dave's recommendations. They are on a tight schedule and don't want to make any mistakes. You are not at all familiar with this account.
What would you do in this situation?
This response is 'taking the easy way out' as you don't even try and find a solution to the client's problem. You display a lack of responsibility, initiative, and flexibility. This is an extremely negative response.
Although you do not take it upon yourself to see whether you can help the client directly, you do refer him to a more knowledgeable colleague, displaying some degree of responsibility, initiative and flexibility. This is a positive response.
You understand that this is a pressing matter and take the responsibility upon yourself to help the client. You show initiative and display a high level of flexibility and ability to prioritise. This is an extremely positive response.
This response is also 'taking the easy way out' as you don't even try and find a solution to the client's problem. You display a lack of initiative and flexibility. Nevertheless, you don't leave the client empty-handed and suggest that he call back tomorrow. This is a negative response, yet better than the first response.
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For some roles, you may be required to take one or more of the Deloitte online assessment tests. These tests are psychometric or skills-based tests depending on the position to which you are applying.
These may include:
The Deloitte CAPP (also known as Cappfinity) test - You may also be required to take a numerical and verbal test provided by CAPP. What is unique about these tests is that they lack a time limit. While this isn’t strange in situational judgement tests, it is so for numerical and verbal tests.
The Deloitte numerical test - Deloitte's numerical reasoning test is provided by Pearson. This test has 21 questions to answer in 30 minutes and is slightly more complicated than other required tests.
The Deloitte critical reasoning test - Deloitte's critical reasoning tests, also known as Watson Glaser test, is composed of 40 questions and has a 30-minute time limit. The test is designed to assess your critical thinking abilities against five components.
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Deloitte Online Assessment Tips
To answer the questions on the tests, you must be able to pull the appropriate information out of the data, as well as to make basic calculations and work with decimals, fractions, and percentages. The free-response questions require you to work out the answers accurately without any help. You may use a calculator to help solve the questions.
The test is timed, creating pressure to work quickly and accurately through each question to achieve a high score.
It is essential to familiarise yourself with the subtle differences between this test and any other numerical tests you may have taken.
Taking practice tests allows you to learn your strengths and weaknesses, including, how long you need to answer each question, and what information is required to answer them.
Understanding all of these metrics, adds up to a better score on test day.
Once you have completed the Deloitte online tests, you will be sent an invitation to complete the Deloitte e-tray exercise.
The Deloitte E-Tray Exercise
While you may be asked to come to one of their offices, they have generally moved to online testing. For a complete rundown on this exercise click here.
In addition to this e-tray exercise, Deloitte graduate programme applicants will be sent a number of questions, known as the Deloitte Service Line Questionnaire.
Deloitte Service Line Questionnaire
While it is not part of the screening process, it’s an opportunity to select the right course for you.
The Service Line Questionnaire aims to help Deloitte know more about your career and qualification interests, as well as where to put you for the interview.
This test is not scored, and once you have finished this stage, you will move on to the second stage of the application process, the Deloitte interview stage.
The Deloitte Interviews and assessment centre
There are two interviews in this stage of the process.
The first Deloitte interview will be solely competency based and will last for about an hour.
This will take place in one of the Deloitte offices but in some cases, it may take the form of a telephone interview.
This interview will provide you with information on both the job you applied for, as well as the company culture.
For more information about this interview please see our Deloitte interview page.
Prepare for the Deloitte Online Tests/Assessments
If you are looking to practice Deloitte tests and learn how to answer the questions, it’s important you know what this Deloitte online test is looking for.
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FAQs
In this Deloitte online test, you will be presented with photographs and situations that you may face in your work for Deloitte. There are five different responses available and you have to decide how you would respond for each of the scenarios.
There are several types of interviews in the various Deloitte application processes. Learn and prepare for the Deloitte interviews and assessment centre with JobTestPrep's preparation materials that are offered to you on this page.
Taking practice tests allows you to learn your strengths and weaknesses, including how long you need to answer each question, and what information is required to answer them.
Knowing all this adds up to a better score on test day.
The Deloitte psychometric tests are provided by Kenexa, a leading company producing these tests. In these tests, you will be given financial and numerical data in the form of tables, graphs, and possibly paragraphs of information.
Top 5 questions in Deloitte's interviews and how to answer them:
1. What are your strengthens? - It must be genuine, well evidenced and highly relevant strength.
2. Talk about a team conflict - Choose a genuine yet professionally managed dispute with a positive outcome.
3. Why Deloitte? - Focus on what makes Deloitte different from similar companies, like Deloitte university, their inclusiveness or breakthrough labs. Give an example of a Deloitte project, and be enthusiastic.
4. What do you know about Deloitte? Discuss the business structure, office locations, names of chairman and CEO, company history, and other unique points.
5. How will you manage multitasking? Have a planning system, strategies for working smarter, organised priorities (based on impact) and determination (no fear of hard work).