
‘Lockdown-Damaged’ New Hires Struggle to Socialize at KPMG UK
KPMG UK is joining Deloitte and PwC in adding soft skills and professional basics to the firm’s new hire training, having noticed the recruits are lacking in “people skills” critical to hack it in public accounting. Why is this new crop so devoid of interpersonal intelligence? While us older working adults were getting fat and […]

Big 4 Firms Are Noticing a Sudden Skills Gap in New Hires
It’s funny, I was just talking about this yesterday to a state society leader, how there’s been talk in recent weeks that offshoring and automation have reduced the “skills gauntlet” interns and new hires go through to learn the tedious details which in turn is making a crop of staff and associates who feel almost […]
PwC Presents: A Day in the Life of a PwC Audit
Well, this video has one thing going for it, in that it isn't nearly as awkward as Deloitte's cringeworthy Homo Deloittus. Note we said "nearly." The soft voices remind me of the soon-to-be-abandoned young girls of MTV's 16 and Pregnant, who speak softly for fear they might scare away their irresponsible baby daddies (who are […]