Did you know that you can jump straight into the Professional Services industry as early as high school? Well, now you do!
PwC’s range of student programs and career pathways allows you to build your career with one of Australia’s largest Professional Services firms even sooner than you thought possible. With a diverse range of business areas and a variety of work, there are professional career opportunities for everyone, regardless of what you’re interested in.
If you want to learn more, and we know you do, all you need to do is keep on reading.
Early Career Pathways with PwC
When your high school experience is drawing to a close, the idea of completing even more schooling before joining the workforce can sound like a real drag. However, with PwC’s range of alternate career pathways, you can learn new professional work skills, complete training and even become certified, all while getting hands-on industry experience. If you ask us, it doesn’t get much better than that.
By joining PwC’s Higher Apprenticeship or Trainee Program, you could be tackling anything from climate change to developing AI strategies alongside some of the country’s biggest organisations. You could help businesses report on their sustainability commitments, or partner with not-for-profits to improve the way they work. Regardless of what gets you up in the morning, PwC is ready to help you find the perfect job pathway for you!
Discover Some Serious Employee Perks
By joining PwC’s passionate team of Professional Services pros, you aren’t just getting a top-notch career pathway, you’ll also benefit from tonnes of exciting benefits and offerings! Discover some of the ways that PwC makes their team members feel valued, including –
Learn, Earn and Grow
With the Higher Apprenticeship Program, you’ll gain a VET qualification through TAFE while working at PwC, and they’ll cover your course fees! Essentially, you’ll be paid while studying and developing hands-on-skills; it sounds to us like the perfect professional career pathway!
Flexible Pathways
If university is part of your plan, the Trainee Program lets you work part-time while studying at university part-time. Subjects like accounting, commerce, finance or data sciences will help make you a great fit for PwC.
Valuable, Real-World Skills
At PwC, you’ll grow beyond technical skills. You’ll develop soft skills that will support you through your professional career and help you stand out. Some great examples of professional work skills include effective communication, leadership and confidence in group discussions.
Mentoring & Networking
When you’re just starting out in the Professional Services industry, it helps to get some guidance from industry pros. Work alongside industry leaders passionate about their work. Gain invaluable mentorship and networking opportunities.
PwC Gets Out in the Community
To help educate even more young jobseekers about various professional career opportunities with PwC, Explore Careers recently helped their team facilitate a super-successful roadshow (not to brag, but students even gave it an average satisfaction rating of 9.3/10). PwC’s passionate presenters shared their industry insights into what all the different student programs and career pathways offered, their personal professional career journeys, and the educational pathways that led them to PwC!
Post-event, students were asked if they would consider working in this industry after getting a breakdown of all the different opportunities and job pathways. Here’s what some of them had to say:
“Yes. I’ve always been interested in Professional Services. This area interests me, and it is what I’m good at.”
“Yes, it sounds exactly like what I want. A good company with large amounts of clients that I can gain knowledge on and work with. Additionally, the aspect of working internationally was very attractive.”
“Possibly. There seems to be lots of opportunities for a quality career.”
So, don’t just take it from us, take it from the students who attended their roadshow! If you want an incredible job pathway to kickstart a rewarding professional career straight out of high school, this is it. All you have to do is start working on that application!
Looking to the Future: What’s Next?
If you’re already looking for even more information about PwC’s student programs and career pathways, you won’t have to wait long! Their Early Careers team is currently preparing to attend the NSW Career Advisors Network panel in December; this means that you can count on your school career advisors to have all the info you need to get ahead when you start back at school next year.
What’s more, the PwC Early Careers team are also planning exciting office visits around multiple states in early 2025, and they’d love to see you there.
Applications for PwC’s Early Careers Programs open in February 2025 so keep an eye on the website for more information!
In the meantime, you can learn more about PwC’s Early Careers Programs here.
