A Comparative Study on Recruitment & Selection Process in Big Four Accounting Firms

Recruitment and selection are often entitled as the talent acquisition in the organisation and it is one of the key components at the starting point of human resources in organisation. There are many factors which contribute to the company’s prosperity such as employee ability, education, skill, experience, personality traits and motivation. Efficient recruitment and selection process will boost the organisational growth. The main objective of this paper is to study the recruitment and selection process in the Big Four accounting firms. This research paper highlights the odds and evens of the policies being followed by the Big Four. India has its own advantage in becoming the natural hub for the outsourcing, apart from the labour skills even there is a rapid growth in the infrastructure to support the enhancing future of the country. The Big Four is one of them and comprises of the world’s largest accounting firms. Deloitte, PwC, EY and KPMG together are called the big four. The big four was initially called big eight which further got reduced to the big six and then the big five and finally it came down to the BIG FOUR. The Big Four initiated only after the of Arthur Andersen in the year 2002. The research study is analytical in nature and the data has been collected from secondary data which consists of company employees, online journals and research papers. Recruitment and selection are a tedious process however recruiting and selecting the right candidate for the organisation can be executed efficiently if there is a well-defined policy set in the organisation.