Academic backing is important and it always helps. I thought that I should not mix up my passion and my academics. In such a situation, attending talks, seminars and meeting the people of the industry can be helpful.
The coolest thing about this job is the real-life experience. For me is it not a specific task that I have enjoyed the most, it is the new sense of professionalism I have gained.
Making the customer feel comfortable and giving good suggestions to them if something went wrong and working along with them to correct things will make me think I am doing my role in the right way.
Personally, I love the working arrangements that I have created within my team. Being able to work from home is great as I live a fair way from the office.
I like to think of the graduate program experience as one big learning experience, which has been my favourite part about my job – I’m continuously discovering and learning new things.
I applied to a program called Tuputoa which offers Māori and Pacific Island students internships in the summer which landed me an interview with Deloitte. Since then, I received an offer as a graduate and have now been at Deloitte for 6 months and am loving every second of it.