Dains

Dains are the largest independent firm located and operating in the West Midlands. The firm operate from six principle offices in the West Midlands. The firm have 14 partners and directors and a further 125 staff.
Dains' core business areas are:

Training

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Your training package is tailored to the business area you choose to work in. However, Dains do recognise that many skills used in each business area are transferable and are consequently willing to allow trainees to transfer between departments as their career develops, something that is unusual at an accountancy firm.

Internship

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Dains offer summer placements and year-long placements.

The training provided during work experience is exactly the same as that which is provided to a full time graduate employee.

Dains Interview Questions

Dains Graduate interview process

The Dains graduate assessment procedure is as follows:

Application

Dains specify that all applicants must submit a covering letter in their own handwriting, with their online application.

Assessment Day

Starts with written psychometric tests - followed by two short interviews with different managers.

Then lunch is provided - first you are joined by some partners and managers then by some trainees

During this time they mark the tests and discuss - if you do well enough you will have 2 short interviews with partners

This completes the day - you will be informed of the outcome within 5 days

Questions

You will be asked a few competency questions followed by them asking
  • Talk about an accounting related news story
  • Why do you want to work for Dains
You will also be asked to comment on a newspaper article and will be expected to give your answers in light of how Dains can help those entities that are affected, i.e. what services can Dains offer to assist them

Psychometric Test

As with the majority of employers, Dains use paper-based verbal reasoning and numeracy tests during the assessment day, courtesy of Kenexa.