Is KPMG right for me?

During the recruitment process, we want to understand if your skills are aligned with those required for success at KPMG. By looking at your skills, this will help you and us to know whether you would enjoy working here and have the potential to thrive.

1. Career Motivation

This is about having thought about why you want to work for KPMG and your chosen programme and location, as well as your future aspirations. Are you:

• Passionate about working for KPMG.
• Clear on why you have applied for the role, and how your strengths align to the role.
• Fully aware of the qualifications involved.

2. Learning & Curiosity

This is about absorbing new information and techniques quickly, gathering the information you need being open to new ideas and taking a big picture view. Do you:

• Absorb new information and master new techniques easily.
• Gather appropriate information to reach sound conclusions.
• Embrace new ideas and open to experimenting with new ideas.

3. Resilience

This is about accepting and adapting to change, working within ambiguity or uncertainty, keeping calm under pressure and staying positive when facing difficulties or criticism. Do you:

• Work productively when roles and situations are not clearly defined.
• Keep things in perspective and stays calm and focused under pressure.
• Stay positive when facing difficulties, rather than dwelling on the negative

4. Relationship Building

This is about making new connections easily, giving a good first impression, adjusting behaviour to interact more effectively with others and putting effort into developing good relationships and helping others. Do you:

• Make new connections easily.
• Manage own behaviour to create a positive impression.
• Adjust approach and behaviour to interact more effectively with others.

5. Effective Communication

This is about being able to communicate effectively through both verbal and written information- not just understanding but being able to engage and communicate with clarity and impact. Do you:

• Show strong comprehension of spoken information, including underlying meaning.
• Speak fluently, audibly, and express ideas clearly.
• Show strong comprehension of written information, including underlying meaning.

6. Initiative

This is about enjoying the challenge of being set demanding goals to meet, seeking additional work and responsibilities proactively, keeping focused on self-development and working well independently. Do you:

• Sets demanding goals and work hard to achieve them.
• Seek additional work and proactively take on new responsibilities.
• Seek opportunities to gain experience, improve performance, and achieve career goals.

7. Planning & Organisation

This is about setting yourself clear objectives, managing your own time and work, recording project progress and information carefully and completing work in a logical, planful way. Do you:

• Set clearly defined objectives, milestones, and timelines.
• Manage own time and deliver work on schedule.
• Develop detailed plans and complete tasks in a logical order.

8. Results Focused

This is about getting work done to a high standard, working systematically across multiple tasks at once, staying focused and consistently showing care and diligence. Do you:

• Consistently complete tasks with a high degree of quality.
• Structure and deliver own tasks systematically by considering priorities, dependencies, and time requirements.
• Attends to and delivers on multiple tasks effectively.

9. Critical Thinking

This is about critically evaluating information and using it to make rational judgements and decisions.

• Make informed and well considered decisions.
• Critically evaluates information to identify issues.
• Make logical judgments based on all pertinent data and facts.

10. Inclusive Collaboration

This is about fostering team cohesion, appreciating others' efforts and actively seeking their input. Do you:

• Energise the team and builds cohesion.
• Recognise and acknowledge others’ contributions.
• Seek out and encourages others to express their views.

11. Integrity

This is about always upholding ethical standards and being trusted to do the right thing. Do you:

• Uphold ethical standards regardless of external pressure or competing agendas.
• Keep promises and refrain from disclosing confidential information.
• Adhere to rules, guidelines and procedures.

12. Applying Expertise & Technology

This is about being proficient in applying relevant knowledge to the job and effectively applying relevant technology to complete their job well. Do you:

• Proficiently apply relevant knowledge and skills to your job.
• Identify, adopt, and operate technology available to complete your job more effectively or efficiently.