Hello there, my name is Richard McMunn from the interview training company PassMyInterview.com,
and in this tutorial, I'm going to teach you how to pass a PwC interview. It does not matter
which role you are being interviewed for at PwC, please make sure you watch this training
tutorial from beginning to end, because I am going to help you to be the standout candidate!
And to achieve that goal, this is what I will cover. I will explain how to introduce yourself
correctly at the start of your PwC interview. I will tell you a list of common PwC interview
questions. I will give you top-scoring answers to those PwC interview questions, and I will
also give you further resources to help you pass your PwC interview. So, four really good
reasons why you should stick around and watch this PwC training tutorial from beginning
to end! Before I get into the interview questions and answers, a very warm welcome from me.
My name is Richard McMunn. That's me there in the center of the screen, and I’ve been
helping people for about 20 years now to pass their interviews. And I always do that by
giving you TOP-SCORING ANSWERS to the interview questions. On that basis, please do SUBSCRIBE
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content, and I will therefore spend more time creating it for you. Okay. Let's get straight
into those PwC interview questions and answers. The first one is going to be either: Tell
me about yourself? Or, Introduce yourself? This is the first interview question. We need
to make sure that we give a powerful answer. Now, my tip for answering the ‘introduce
yourself’ interview question correctly is, because this is going to be the first question
at your PwC interview, we need to make sure your answer is positive, it is full of confidence,
and it is also one that shows you fully appreciate the level of responsibility that comes with
working at PwC. Here is my suggested answer. “I consider myself to be professional, passionate,
a person with high levels of integrity and standards, and also someone who has the experience
and the qualities to excel within this position here at PwC. Prior to applying for the role,
I considered the five qualities needed to achieve professional competence at PwC, including
leadership, business acumen, technical capabilities, global acumen and relationship skills. I believe
I have all of these qualities, and whilst I am certainly not saying I am the finished
article, I am someone who can hit the ground running here and start contributing positively
to the PwC mission and objectives. Finally, I feel strongly that if you hire me within
this position here at PwC, you will quickly start to see a positive return on your investment,
based on the fact I can bring something of value to your already established team.”
Now, if you use a response like that at the start of your PwC interview, it sets you up
for the rest of the interview with confidence. What I particularly like about that answer,
is you are mentioning those 5 important qualities that are needed to achieve ‘professional
competence’ at PwC. So it shows you've done your research into the organization and as
I say, it sets you up for the remainder of the interview. The next PwC interview question
I would like you to prepare for is, why do you want to work for PwC? My tip for answering
this question is: this interview question clearly assesses whether or not you have carried
out any research into PwC prior to the interview. So let's show the interviewer we have genuine
and valid reasons for wanting to work for this great organization. Because PwC are a
brilliant outfit, a fantastic organization, and we want to give them really good reasons
why we want to work there. Here is my suggested answer. “I don’t think there’s many
people who wouldn’t want to work for PwC. Having studied the organization prior to applying,
and also having looked into your history, you are a company with an outstanding reputation
and also one that has a desire to continually improve and develop. It also strikes me that
PwC is a place that has a culture whereby innovation is encouraged, high standards are
expected and strong collaborative working is the norm. Apart from feeling immensely
proud to be an employee of PwC, I feel this would be place I can contribute positively
within, I could gain a large amount of job satisfaction from, and I would also get to
work alongside some hugely talented teams and individuals. There are numerous positives
for me working at PwC, and if I am successful, I plan to stay here for many years to come.”
So, again, that shows that you've carried out your research, you know why you want to
work there, and they are passionate and genuine reasons as well, which is important. Now,
please don't go anywhere, because I've still got a number of PwC interview questions to
work through with you. But when you're ready, if you want to CLICK THAT LINK in the top
right hand corner of the video, it will take you through to my website, PassMyInterview.com,
and you can download my 30 PwC interview Questions and Answers in PDF format. There are 30 questions
for the Big Accounting Firms, including PwC within it. Plus, you also get a copy of these
slides as well! But, before you do that, let's move on to the next PwC interview question.
Now, these are starting to get harder. This one is: The ‘PwC professional’ focuses
on five important attributes. Give me an example when you previously demonstrated one of these
attributes? So, obviously we need to understand what these PwC professional attributes are,
and I mentioned them in the answer to the first interview question, introduce yourself?
My tip for answering this is, this is a behavioral type interview question. So we need to make
sure we use what is called the STAR technique when answering it. My advice is to structure
your answer using situation, task, action and result. And in the answer that follows,
I will show you how effective the STAR technique can be. Here we go. In a previous role, I
feel I consistently demonstrated strong ‘business acumen’ capabilities. I was attending a
meeting whereby different departments were discussing the marketing launch strategy for
a new organizational product. During the meeting, I felt the proposed marketing strategy could
potentially fail, due to the fact the advertising spend was not targeted in the right areas.
Although we had a dedicated marketing team who were responsible for the product launch
and the advertising strategy, I felt it was my responsibility to make suggestions for
alternative marketing methods, as I felt this could give the company a significantly increased
return on their investment. As soon as the opportunity presented itself, I started to
explain to the meeting chairperson how I felt the marketing spend was not correctly targeted.
The vast majority of the marketing budget was going to be spent offline, which I felt
was a mistake. I explained that, because our target audience were professional males based
in the US, we should consider using LinkedIn adverts as a primary source of advertising.
I then offered to go away and create a business case for my suggested advertising spend proposal,
to which the chairperson agreed to. After two days of putting together my business proposal,
I went back to the chairperson to present my ideas. After carefully considering my suggestion,
she agreed to shift 50% of the budget to LinkedIn adverts. 8 weeks after launching the product,
a further 25% of the ad spend was moved to LinkedIn due to the success of the campaign.”
That is an in-depth answer, which I believe it needs to be when you are answering those
behavioral type PwC interview questions. You can see that I have used cleverly situation,
task, action and result. And if you follow that format, and always make sure the result
is POSITIVE following the action you take, then you are more likely to get very high
scores for these type of interview questions. Let's take a look at another one. Tell me
about a time when you had conflict in a team or group? This is a common PwC interview question.
So once again, use the STAR technique to construct your answer, and make sure you show that you
are someone who looks to resolve any conflict quickly, positively and professionally for
the good of the organization. Here is my suggested answer: “I was part of an 8 person team
in a previous role and we were required to work on an important project for a long-standing
client. At the start of the project, we all got together to discuss the brief and to also
put together a plan of action to make sure we completed the project on time. Before we
started work, two members of the team began disagreeing on the best way to tackle the
project, and the communication between them was starting to become confrontational and
not helpful to what we wanted to achieve. Because I fully understand how important effective
collaborative working is to the successful outcome of a project, I knew I had to say
something and tackle the confrontation quickly. I interrupted their conversation and suggested
what they were discussing was not helpful to the success of the project. I reminded
them that the only way we could complete the project on time, and to the correct standards
expected by the client, was to work together professionally, put aside any differences
we had, and always focus on what we wanted to achieve as a team. Although they appeared
to be taken aback by my assertiveness, it really did have the desired effect. Immediately
after I challenged them both, they stopped arguing and started to contribute more effectively
to the team goals. The remainder of the project from then on in ran smoothly, so I think it
is really important to stop any form of conflict quickly in its tracks as it can have a detrimental
effect on what it is you are trying to achieve.” Again, that's a rock solid answer! You can
see there that by using situation, task, action and result, it really does drill down your
answer to make sure that you answer the behavioral interview question correctly. And it also
shows that you can work effectively in these types of situations, which in my opinion,
is really important at the PwC interview. The next PwC interview question we need to
prepare for, is: Describe a time when you received constructive criticism, and how you
handled it? Do not say you've never received constructive feedback. It is really important
when working for a company like PwC that you are willing to continually learn and develop.
Be positive in your handling of any constructive feedback, and to do that, here is my suggested
answer. “When I first started working for a previous employer, my manager called me
in to her office after being in the role for three months to give me some important feedback.
She said that, whilst she was overall very happy with my work, she was surprised I hadn’t
attended any of the weekly team meetings. Whilst these were not compulsory, she felt
it would be beneficial for me to start attending to gain a wider understanding of the organization
and how the department I was working in contributed to the company’s goals. I immediately apologized
and told her I had not attended simply because I wanted to get my head down and do a good
job, as I had not been in the role that long. However, I said that I fully understood it
would be beneficial to attend, and from that day on, I went to all of the meetings. It
proved to be good advice as I got to know the team better and I also started to learn
some mew skills that helped me within my own role.” The important thing there, is that
you are taking on board feedback from somebody else and you are reacting positively to it.
And that's the important bit! You are being positive in your answer. You're not being
defensive. You're not disagreeing with the feedback… you are apologizing, and you are
then taking on board that feedback because somebody in a senior position is advising
you, and you should therefore be able to take that on board. Now, let me quickly show you
these 30 PwC interview questions and answers. If you CLICK THAT LINK in the top-right hand
corner of the video, it goes through to this page here. It's my website, (PassMyInterview.com),
which I founded in 2019. We've been helping thousands of people, literally thousands of
people to pass their interviews. I've got a full list here of 30 interview questions
for the BIG 4 Accounting Firms, including PwC. If you get a copy of that guide, you
can have it in your within your inbox within two minutes from now. And you also get a copy
of those slides that I've just gone through. So you get all of those 30 interview questions
and answers, and the answers are to the same level as what I've gone through here, in this
tutorial. And you get a copy of these slides as well, to save you writing them down. Thanks
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