PricewaterhouseCoopers announce biggest ever grad intake

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) have announced that the spring intake for its graduate scheme has been its highest ever.

209 university leavers were employed by the financial services firm in April.

However, demand was even higher than this with the firm receiving 30 applications for every single graduate vacancy it advertised.

The recovering UK economy is to thank for the rise in graduate intake said Ian Powell, a senior partner and the chairman of PwC.

"The recovery is bringing fresh opportunities and the business is growing, so maintaining and increasing the investment and value we have placed in our graduate recruitment numbers has massively paid off," he said.

The financial services firm has been voted top graduate employer by High Fliers research company for the last eight years.
On 27^th April the Office of National Statistics revealed that the UK economy grew by 0.5 per cent in the first three months of 2011.