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September 16, 2007

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BW’s best places to launch a career.

Filed under: Career, Life — Prakash Muralidharan @ 2:27 pm

Here are a few interesting facts from BW's article on the hottest places to launch a career.

-Deloitte & Touche is No. 1, followed by PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young.
-Ernst & Young uses Facebook to let prospective employees talk freely with real ones.
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Deloitte will show a rap video about office life—made by interns—to give students a realistic view of the company.
-Microsoft offers interviewees visiting its headquarters concierge services.
-Lucky interns at Ernst & Young get to fly with the chief executive on the corporate jet.
-JP Morgan allowed a New York University film grad to shadow three young employees for a documentary-style film that will be posted online.
-KPMG launched a Web-based training program to better prepare young employees and their managers to talk about career building.
-IBM (No.4) introduced ThinkPlace, an online suggestion box to help it cull the best ideas from its global workforce.
-At Google Inc (No. 5), there are free lunches and on-site massages.
-PwC has instituted an extra 11-day firmwide vacation.
-KPMG declared that every summer weekend starts at 3 p.m. Friday.


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