Mazars Application Process

Hi Guys,

I have recently applied to Mazars to work on their Chartered Accountant Training Scheme. I have had my initial application accepted and passed the online tests and received a phone call from the Mazars office inviting me to interview. However this is to be a telephone interview, which does not match up with anything I can find on Wikijob, or on the Mazars website.

Has anyone else had experience of this? Any advice or heads up about the type of questions asked would be much appreciated!

Thanks

Hi CJE,

I am in a similar position, I recieved an email inviting me for a telephone interview for a graduate role in Manchester, I passed the online tests too.

Maybe it is in place of the first interview.

CJE or Chim, can I ask what the online tests are like? I've just got an email invitation to sit them and don't have much experience with these things. Any preparation tips?

Cheers

Hey Macers,

They include a verbal reasoning and numerical reasoning. From what I remember, they were not too difficult but again the time pressure is there, but I would recommend you take enough time to answer the questions correctly (i.e don't guess).

Wikijob has some help for these tests. Although, there should be more online.

Is there anyone who went to the Mazars assessment day on 22 June in London who is still waiting to hear back? I am!

Hi rooksx, I have got an assessment day coming up, can you please give me some info what the partner questions were? and what exercises the in tray task involved? Any advice would be much appreciated.

Surprisingly, the partner interview involves yet more competency-based questions. He had what looked like a standardised questionnaire to complete so I'm sure you'll get them. Usual sort of competency questions: team-work, time where you've had to be aware of how your behaviour affects others, time you dealt with setbacks, etc. Then I got asked the usual questions about why the firm, why the job etc.

In-tray exercise was split into 3 parts dealing with the same scenario. Mazars is planning a conference, you have to arrange various things. The first involved grouping the information you've been given and saying what action you'll take e.g. one group may be all items relating to the guest speaker and you say what action you'll take in relation to the speaker.

The second part consisted of designing the speaker schedule for the conference. Third part was arranging and costing the conference dinner. This involved doing some calculations.

Group exercise was a rather morbid one. Scenario is that 6 people are trapped in an underground cave that is flooding. They can only be rescued one at a time. Your group is the rescue committee in charge of deciding in what order they should be rescued. The only basis for your decision is the bios of the people.

rooksx, many thanks. Does the calculation require a calculator? or is simple sort of adding numbers.

It's simple arithmetic but you'll need a calculator. They give you one.

Had the assment day recently. How did yours go?

Tara x

Hi all, any recent feedback on 1st interviews would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Hey has anyone done there online tests for 2012 and still not heard back yet? I had did mine over 3 weeks ago and still nothing :/

Thanks

I completed my tests (numerical and verbal) last night, and they emailed me immediately to say I had passed, and will shortly be contacted to arrange an interview. You still not heard anything?

no they havent! i emailed them twice and ive heard nothing! :( duno what to do, how long does it take for them to tell me if ive passed or not!

hey
just wondering if any one has had an assessment centre recently and could tell me what it was like?

Cheers!

So have you had your interview now? I've got mine next week.

Hey n7season,

I've been invited to do the online test for Mazars within the next 3 days and was hoping you could shed some light as to what the tests were like?..for example, what types of numerical questions did you receive? Inflation, currency conversion, tally tables... etc...?

Also did you complete the test or was it one of those tests you really just had to do as best as you could with the time given ?

Would like to thank you in advanced for any help you can give!

I practiced the tests on SHL: they're almost exactly the same as the ones you do with Mazars. Questions about compund interest, working out the mileage for company expenses, reading graphs. Pretty simple algebra, just that you're under big time pressure (which you should "thrive under" if you're doing audit). I only got to question 17/20 and still passed, but I'd suggest making sure each question is correct before you move on becasue they're not hard - I don't know whether they negatively mark.

Also, I received an email instantly to say I'd passed and needed to take the verbal reasoning, and after you pass that you're invited to an interview.

Good luck

hey n7season, i just did my numerical test for mazars and im taking a break and hopefully will do the verbal reasoning test tomorrow... i'm curious though, did you find out you had passed the numerical test immediately after you took the test , or did you only find out your results after you took both tests? cheerz

Hi Inceptum,

I was invited to the numerical online test first, with no mention of the verbal reasoning. Once I had completed the numerical test, I was immediatley emailed to say I had passed, and asked to then sit the verbal reasoning test.

My guess would be for your case is that you'll be emailed once you've done the numerical reasoning with the outcome.

Hi Inceptum,

I was invited to the numerical online test first, with no mention of the verbal reasoning. Once I had completed the numerical test, I was immediatley emailed to say I had passed, and asked to then sit the verbal reasoning test.

My guess would be for your case is that you'll be emailed once you've done the numerical reasoning with the outcome.

hey thanks for replying!

When I did the numerical reasoning this is what they sent me:

"We are delighted to inform you that you have passed our initial screening stage. We would now like you to take an online verbal test."

but it just was a mail merge of the previous email, with the exception being that numerical reasoning was now replaced with verbal reasoning... is this the signal to me that I passed the numerical test? : /

Apologies for the double post,

can some one confirm to me what I should expect from the one-to-one interview stage with mazars?

Some say there is an e-tray, others dont ... :S tad confused...

My experience was about a fifty minute interview. Started with reading a newspaper-type article, and being asked to analyse the key points - summarize, who are the stakeholders, and what's your opinion.

Then there are questions on; why particular university, why course, why accountancy, why Mazars. And then competency; teamwork, acheivements, dealing with multiple deadlines, difficult module at uni.

The interview was quite relaxed, and matched up to everything I had already read from internet sources.

(No e-tray for me, that's at the assement centre)