Second in our ongoing series of profiles of major recruiters and association representatives.
Name: Nancy Hudson
Title: Campus Recruiting Manager
Organization: Ernst & Young LLP
Hometown: Vancouver, BC
Education/Qualifications: Bachelor of Business, LaTrobe University, Australia; Chartered Accountant
My life before Ernst & Young: The first job that taught me time management skills was working as a server and bartender. I was able to apply these skills while studying for my CA and articling. After high school, I travelled around Australia and many parts of Europe, working whenever the opportunity arose. I was fortunate to land a job in the Greek Islands for four months. I love meeting new people from all over the world, and being campus recruiting manager allows me to talk to people with different backgrounds and experiences every day.
Where I am today: I am responsible for the Vancouver office’s campus recruiting, which includes hiring 40 to 60 new CA students each year. My job offers me variety— one day I’ll be on campus hosting a kickball tournament, and the next talking to a group of 300 students about the merits of the CA profession. I am also a manager in our firm’s Assurance practice during audit season. I’ve worked on a large variety of assurance clients, including entrepreneurial businesses and large brokerage firms. I completed three short-term secondments with Ernst & Young – two in Toronto working in financial services, and one out of Boston working on a US brokerage firm.
In my spare time: I am a soccer fanatic and have played since the age of five. I normally take vacation during the World Cup so I don’t miss any games. This year I was on maternity leave with my son Vinnie, and we were able to watch some of the games together. My husband is an excellent chef and I’m lucky to come home to his delicious creations.
Interesting fact: I have a wiener dog named Frank who placed second in his heat at the Weiner Dog Races at Hastings Racecourse in Vancouver.
Hi Nancy, you are full of surprises! Life does take interesting twists and turns and you have, apparently, made the most of them. I imagine those bartending skills come in handy when you have guests for dinner – a little role reversal – hubby in the kitchen cooking and you wielding the shot glass and shaker. Vinnie and Frank are lovely and you are a lucky woman. Weiner Dog Races at Hastings Racecourse eh – who’da thunk – hilarious! I look forward to seeing you during the fall recruiting at the business career centre at Sauder – UBC.
Best regards, Linda Abbott, Career Centre Assistant
Hi Nancy,
That’s a very cute picture of you and Vinnie!
We never had an opportunity to chat much besides the events that we organize together, but you definitely had a very interesting journey coming to where you are today! A very nice little article – I have learned a lot more about you.
I look forward to seeing you soon at the Ernst & Young Info Session!
Kind regards,
Helen Xie
I enjoyed reading this article because you showed that there are many opportunities whenever you go and whenever you are! Congratulation on your baby, he is so adorable.
I can’t wait to meet you at the Ernst & Young networking session in september
Sincerely,
Jennifer Wang
Hi Nancy,
Wonderful article, its really cool that you had an opportunity to travel with EY and still maintain such a balance in your personal life. I really enjoyed our conversations so far at the SFU events. I look forward to the EY info session coming up.
Cheers,
Parneel Nijjar
Hi Nancy:
wonderful pictures and excellent working experience. I am a SFU graduated students who met with you in the CRAM session in SFU at August 19th. You have provided me a interested and professional pictures for yourself and E&Y. Therefore, I have done a lots of research for E&Y and became interested to join the firm. I am sure that I will see you in the E&Y`s night event in September, see you soon.
Hi Nancy,
It’s nice to finally see pictures of Vinnie and Frank! They’re both so cute! I’ve heard so many stories about them from you, it’s nice to put a face to the names.
I look forward to chatting with you again in a few weeks!
Take care,
Monica Reihal
Hello Nancy,
I was happy to hear your interesting journey and career path. Your amazing experience has already demonstrated the uniqueness of a CA designation – CA opens many doors of opportunities. Therefore, the visualization of the career path does not end with obtaining the CA designation because it is only the beginning to an endless journey of opportunities.
Nancy, your little story has allowed me to know more about you! Hopefully, we will have more interaction during the recruitment season. Looking forwards to seeing you soon at the EY Info Session!
Stacy Yang, BBA – SFU
P.S. Your boy, Vinnie is the cutest baby boy I have ever seen!!!
Hi Nancy,
I am delighted to see an article about you. It thoroughly reflects your life and most importantly who you are. I strongly believe that your life is an exceptional journey, and you’ve made your autobiography worth reading.
Vinnie is a strong boy, I can see from the pictures. 9 months now, and when he reaches 2 years old, then you definitely should start to give him soccer lessons
It’s first time when I see Frank. Frank looks so faithful in the picture. I want to have a dog sometime in the future too.
Kindly regards,
Inar
P.S. Thanks for a desert and wishes. I will do my best in the upcoming semester. See you on SFU campus.
Hello Nancy,
Thank you for sharing your life journey. Especially the story that you worked “whenever the opportunity arose” after high school really helped me solve my personal dilemma.
I wish you enjoy the last moment of this summer as well as peace in your home.
Yours,
Eric Lim
Hi Nancy,
It was great to see your nice photos and an article about your life experience. I would like to hear stories from people which reflect their life are really inspiring by offering new perspectives and insights about what life is all about.
I will be graduating in this December from Sauder DAP program. But unfortunately, I was not selected for a Day in a CA firm at EY. So hoping to see more people at the upcoming EY Information Session and know more about my favorite firm!
Veronica Dong, DAP UBC
Hi, Nancy
Thank you for your presentation on the CRAM session this Wednesday on UBC campus. You shared your own experiences in composing your own CACEE and it was very impressive. I was not surprised to see you handle your work well while enjoy your own life. I particular appreciate your frankness in answering students’ questions. It’s very helpful.
I hope I have the chance to know more about you as well as EY and see you in two weeks!
Jun Yu, DAP UBC
Hi Nancy,
It’s deeply insipring to hear someone’s life stories and to get to know that person who shares a similar vision of balancing career success with family/life and has been succesfuly at doing it. We met at DAP student ” A day at E & Y” event, I was one of the attendees.
Oh I wish my husband is a chef so I can totally relax when I ‘m running out of idea on dinner plans. But I must say my 7 weeks old son can just be as cute as Vinnie.
Looking forward to seeing you at the coming up events!
Cheers,
Betty Liang, B.Eng, DAP
Thanks a lot for letting us know more about yourself, your nice family, and the journey which led you to be the one that you are now.What I learned was everyone can achieve what he/she desires if he/she tries the best. I didn’t have the opportunity to talk with you during the CRAM session but I really enjoyed your story about Australia and your CACEE.
I am a soccer fan too and have been playing from when I was 4,actually my only childhood memory is playing soccer with my friends all day long!
I look forward to meeting you soon in person at the Ernst & Young Info Session!
Hey Nancy,
Thank you for sharing your personal experiences with us. It is cool to know that the work you did before actually helped with the CA job (well, server and bartender are quite a different job from the audit work– that was what I thought before).
I have quite a bit similar experiences as yours. I did a backpacking trip to Europe and an exchange to Australia during high school. These enriched my experiences and help me understand where I would like to be and how to get there.
Looking forward to meeting you soon.
Best,
Deena He
Hi Nancy!
Hope you are doing great.
This is the first time I am seeing Vincent and he is really handsome and I can see that he has your eyes. He looks like he will surely grow up to be strong as an ox and will be able to wrestle with John Travolta sooner than you think. And Frank is really cute. I wish I had a dog that could participate in race courses for me as well. That would be so awesome. Tell him that I wished him congratulations for coming second at the Hastings Racecourse. It’s a great honour.
Hope to see you soon at the upcoming events.
Take care.
Cheers!!
Numair
Good afternoon Nancy,
I hope you are well. I barely missed meeting with you at yesterday’s event. All my time was spent speaking with first year Assurance staff as well as Managers and Senior Managers. I would have liked to introduce myself to you in person to speak about EY’s policies on professional attire. Upon meeting some of the staff, I noticed that they were fairly comfortable with displaying tattoos and other body art. I would truly appreciate it if you could spare a brief moment of your time to shed light on EY policies on display of body art and piercings alike, given the nature of our profession.
With warm regards,
Angad.
Hi Nancy,
It was a pleasure meeting you at the EY tour day. It gives me hope to see that having a great career still allows one to keep a work and life balance.
I reviewed the slides on the EY promotional usb stick and the list of companies that EY works with really caught my attention.
I currently work with some of the biotech and pharma companies on that list in my current role in clinical research. I have worked with Amgen Canada a lot in the research and development side.
I hope to see you at some other events in the future.
Best regards,
Joan