Flora Quéré, recruitment and candidate experience manager at Mazars, reveals the firm’s recruitment processes for internships, work-study contracts or permanent contracts. She also goes over the questions asked to candidates during interviews and presents the cases you will need to work on if you want to work at Mazars.
The recruitment processes of consulting and auditing firms are always particular and very complex. Flora Quéré helps you face this crucial step which will allow you to join Mazars on a gap year internship, an end-of-study internship, a work-study program or even a permanent contract!
What profiles are Mazars looking for?
Mazars recruits graduates and students from business schools, engineering schools and universities only for gap year, end-of-study, work-study or permanent internships. Regarding end-of-study interns, it is above all for financial audit functions that Mazars opens positions. The announcements are also available on the career site of the cabinet.
Flora Quéré also advises, before going through the interviews, to find out about the company and the position for which you are applying. It also encourages you to do a little introspection which will allow you to better answer questions about the coherence of your academic and professional career.
Focus on Mazars’ recruitment processes
To start, you can find out about offers on different job boards, on the group’s career site or through the meetings you can have with Mazars employees, during forums organized in schools.
After applying, if you applied for a work-study or permanent position, you will be called for a half-day recruitment session during which you will undergo a one-hour interview. You will also be entitled to business workshops and discussion times to learn more about the company in a more or less informal way, but also to discover the transformation of the auditing and consulting professions.
Finally, during this recruitment afternoon, you will have to complete three cases which will allow Mazars to identify your reasoning skills, but also to learn more about your personality and thus know if you are the right candidate for this position.
Recruitment at Mazars: questions asked in interviews and logical cases
You should know that Mazars carries out different processes depending on the profile. Gap trainees only undergo a one-hour interview during which the candidate will be questioned about their career path, their choices of specialization, their associative commitments, etc.
Regarding end-of-study internships, it is a two-interview process. If the first is similar to that of the gap year trainees, it nevertheless contains a logical case of analysis. The second is dedicated to the candidate’s professional career.
The recruitment process for work-study students and future permanent contracts takes place in half a day, you will first have to pass a first interview where you will also be asked about your academic and professional background, before looking at three concrete cases . The first is a logical case of analysis. The second is a role play, during which the candidate puts himself in the shoes of a Mazars employee to solve a concrete problem. Finally, the third case is a group interview which aims to assess your ability to collaborate with members of the same team.
Among the cases of logic sometimes requested in auditing and consulting firms, we find the installation of solar panels on the roofs of Paris or the enigma of the cyclist. After completing this half-day of recruitment, you will receive a response from Mazars between 24 hours and 72 hours, and you will know if you will have the chance to join the firm.
