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Vault Q&A: Grace Shen, Tax Associate, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

Born in Shanghai, Grace Shen journeyed to Melbourne, Australia at age 17 for high school. Initially focused on actuarial studies, she soon discovered her passion for accounting. Grace went on to maj ... read more

Vault Q&A: Senior Assistant, Grant Thornton

"My role includes liaising with audits and conducting tax divisions, which means going out with a client and completing their tax compliance. You also get involved in other projects such as research ... read more

Vault Q&A: Jay Wilkins, BASF's Rotational Development Program

After graduating with a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, in December 2004, Jay Wilkins admittedly had "no idea" what type of engineering position he wanted to pur ... read more

Q&A with Deepti Agrawal, Citigroup Management Associate, India

After graduation Deepti Agrawal joined the Management Associate (MA) programme at Citi, the global financial services giant. She took time out from her busy schedule to talk with Vault about her exper ... read more

Layoffs Q&A

Simple as a preschool primer, the story comes out in colors and numbers. The financial industry, normally associated with green and black, has instead turned pink and red. ... read more

Vault Q&A: Junior NCO Recruiter, RAF

"My role involves meeting and recruiting people in the London office, doing presentations at universities, career fairs and schools." ... read more

Vault Q&A: Souling Zhang, SAP

Upon receiving his computer science degree at Fudan University in 2004, Souling Zhang worked on a part-time basis for a number of local software firms before taking a position with a Japanese software ... read more

Vault Q&A with Wang Xu, Associate, Goldman Sachs

Wang Xu was born in China. He had worked in the U.S. for a few years and received an MBA from the University of Michigan before starting a summer internship as an investment banking associate at glob ... read more

Vault Q&A: Engineering Leadership Graduate Trainee, Rolls Royce

"I'm training for a team leader or managerial role. In my current team there are four people and I'm the only graduate trainee. It's quite a small group. The standard team has about 30 or 40 people." ... read more

Vault Q&A: Darryl Barbee, Archer Daniels Midland

As a product manager in Archer Daniels Midland Company's (ADM) Specialty Food Ingredients division, Darryl Barbee is responsible for shepherding new products through the development process. From ADM ... read more

Vault Q&A: Diane Castiglione, Director of Recruitment for the Department of State

As the Director of Recruitment for the Department of State since July 1999, Diane Castiglione oversees the management of all recruitment activities for the Department of State, as well as nine student ... read more

Vault Q&A: Alma Han, Citi Management Associate, China

A native of Tianjin, Alma Han graduated from Nankai University in Tianjin with a degree in international economics. Upon graduation, she began work with the Management Associate (MA) program of Citi, ... read more

Vault Q&A: Audit Assistant, Baker Tilley

"There?s quite a steep learning curve, especially with training on the side, and it can be tricky to balance work with study and having fun. You need a fairly strong base in maths ? there are lots of ... read more

Vault Q&A: Direct Marketing Executive, British Red Cross

"My team's role is to recruit new regular givers to the British Red Cross. We do this in a variety of ways and I help manage these fundraising campaigns. Our methods include street fundraising, door ... read more

Vault Q&A: Correspondent, Reuters

"I cover the foreign oil and gas companies, as well as pipelines and the politics that is associated with these issues. I research the companies and the stories, report on financial markets and cover ... read more

Vault Q&A: Trainee Solicitor, Freshfields

"The training contract lasts for two years and within this time you move around different departments within the firm. At Freshfields you have to work in each of the corporate, finance and litigation ... read more

Vault Q&A: Federico Sercovich, Citigroup

Upon graduating from the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business in 2003, Federico Sercovich, joined Citigroup's rotational MBA Management Associate program with the company's Nort ... read more

Vault Q&A: Lena Davie, Staples Merchandise Training Program

Davie, who is the first Staples employee to be recruited into the rotational program, took some time out from her schedule to discus her experience at Staples--and why she finds customer service such ... read more

Vault Q&A: Research Scientist, Sanofi Aventis

"I carry out studies on blood and urine samples collected during clinical trials to determine how a drug has been metabolised in the body." ... read more

Health Care CIO Q&A

Ed Koschka is network vice president of information technology and chief information officer for the nine corporations of the Community Health Network in central Indiana ... read more