Black Heritage in Business - April 2025

Our Black Heritage in Business programme is aimed at raising awareness with students of Black Heritage. It allows students to develop their skills and strengths and meet inspiring members of our EY Black Network.

• person), you'll participate in exciting activities that give you a taste of life at EY.

• Develop your professional skills and personal strengths – helping you propel your career into tomorrow.
• Explore your interests, network with peers and asking questions.
• Learn from extraordinary leaders who’ve carved inspirational careers, overcome challenges, and made a difference.
• Hear from our EY Social Mobility Network about the structured support, training and opportunities available.
• 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.

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.

• Thursday 17 April 2025.
• 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.

This programme is aimed at students who come from a low socioeconomic background.

• You are attending / attended a state school or college and
• Your immediate family did not attend university or
• You are (or have been eligible) for free school meals or
• The occupation of your main household earner when you were aged 14 is categorised as being a technical and craft occupation; a routine*, semi-routine manual and service occupation*; or long-term unemployed* (please see below for further guidance on these definitions)
• Technical and craft occupations such as: motor mechanic, plumber, printer, electrician, gardener, train driver.

Routine, semi-routine manual and service occupations such as: postal worker, machine operative, security guard, caretaker, farm worker, catering assistant, sales assistant, HGV driver, cleaner, porter, packer, labourer, waiter/waitress, bar staff.

• 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 To find out more about eligibility requirements and visa sponsorship, please visit the individual programme pages.