Discover EY – Women in Leadership – April 2025

Programme overview

At EY, we're committed to offering opportunities for all. We live in a diverse world and believe our workplace should reflect this. We’ve designed a programme for students in Year 13/S6 (Scotland) and all university undergraduate years, that will give you the tools and experience to support you in your career journey.

What you will be doing

Over two days (one virtual and one in-person), you'll participate in exciting activities that give you a taste of life at EY. You will:

• Develop your professional skills and personal strengths – helping you propel your career into tomorrow.
• Explore your interests, network with senior female leaders and asking questions.
• Learn from extraordinary women who’ve carved inspirational careers, overcome challenges, and made a difference.
• Hear from our EY Women’s Network about the structured support, training and opportunities available for all our people.
• Gain insight into your chosen business area:
  • Audit - go beyond studies and see how we work with clients from local start-ups to big multinational companies.
  • Tax - hear how our apprentices and graduates are helping us to transform the world of Tax.
  • Strategy and Transactions - explore our teams and client projects to give you a deeper understanding of mergers, acquisitions, valuations, as well as looking at the economic circle of our clients.
  • Technology - explore an environment fuelled by our use of artificial intelligence, cyber security, data analytics and beyond. And develop an understanding of how your passion for technology can solve complex problems for some of the world’s biggest businesses.

Regardless of your chosen business area, our team is dedicated to supporting you every step of the way. You’ll get to prosper in an environment that enables you to learn, shape and grow.

And that’s not all — If you're in school, you could have the option to be fast-tracked onto a Business Apprenticeship, and if you're at university you could be fast-tracked onto a Summer Internship, Industrial Placement or Graduate programme. The opportunities here are endless.

Programme length

Two days: Wednesday 16 April - Thursday 17 April 2025.

Location

This is a hybrid programme — you'll participate virtually on day one and join us in one of our offices on day two across the UK: Edinburgh, Manchester, Brimingham or London.

*Please note you will be able to apply to any of our office locations, but we advise you to apply to the location where you would want to be employed in the future. You will then be invited to the in-person office event at one of the selected locations nearest to you. For the in-person event, EY will cover reasonable travel costs for you to get to the office. There are no overnight stays for these events, and we advise for you to only apply to locations that are within a comfortable commutable distance.

Eligibility for applying

Our Discover EY - Women in Leadership programme is aimed at raising awareness with female students in Year 13/S6 (in Scotland) as well as female students in all years studying on an undergraduate degree.

You will, however, need to be working towards an honour’s degree in any subject (if at University),have a minimum of grade 4/C GCSE (or equivalent) in English Language and Maths, and obtained/ working towards three A-levels/ Five Highers (or equivalent).You must be currently studying at a UK School/College/University and in the UK at the time of the event.

EY recognises that it has clear obligations towards all its people and the community at large to ensure that partners, employees and job applicants are afforded equal opportunities to enter employment and progress within the firm. As an employer committed to establishing an inclusive environment free from unlawful discrimination, the firm promotes the fair treatment of staff members and job applicants regardless of their sex, gender identity, marital or civil partnership status, race, ethnic or national origin, disability, religion, sexual orientation, age or pregnancy/maternity status.