EY Hanyoung, 107 Employees Donate Talent to Support Aspiring Entrepreneurs

[Asia Economy Reporter Ji-hwan Park] A total of 107 employees of EY Han Young, a global accounting and consulting firm, volunteered their talents to support future entrepreneurial talents and aspiring consultants.

EY Han Young announced on the 22nd that it successfully concluded the ‘EY Han Young-JA Growth to Professional’ business plan competition for university students.

Growth to Professional was designed with the goal of supporting university students, the future generation, to ‘grow (Growth)’ into ‘professionals (Professional)’ in the future.

Growth to Professional provides students not only with opportunities to acquire business know-how and skills but also with mentoring from current EY Han Young consultants and financial advisory experts. The global non-profit youth education organization JA Korea co-hosted the competition.

This year’s competition saw twice as many students participating compared to the event held two years ago. To provide more opportunities, EY Han Young expanded the number of participants from 30 to 60. Sixty students enrolled in 36 universities passed the final selection with a competition rate of 3 to 1.

The participating students completed various programs over approximately three weeks. They attended lectures on consultant job introductions, understanding industry trends, how to write business plans, and presentation skills. Divided into teams, they worked on projects planning businesses alongside current EY Han Young consultants and financial advisory experts, followed by team presentations. During this process, 107 EY Han Young employees participated as student mentors and instructors, practicing talent donation.

This year’s business plan presentation themes included △Digital (4th Industrial Revolution) △COVID-19 △ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance).

The grand prize went to the ‘SOK Delivery’ team, which proposed a service that refills only the contents of household items such as detergents. The service allows continuous use of the containers without replacement, refilling only the contents, and was praised for developing the ‘zero waste’ trend into a business model.

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