What each Deloitte stage actually is in your region, why there are no games to practice, and where to put your preparation time instead.
By the Game Assessment Prep research teamUpdated September 11, 2026How we research
There is nothing to practice in this section, and that is the finding rather than a gap in our research. Deloitte runs no game-based assessment in any region we could verify — no pymetrics battery, no Arctic Shores tasks, no Aon or Criteria modules, and not HireVue’s cognitive games. The HireVue use that Deloitte Canada confirms is video interviewing. So the reported-games table below is empty on purpose, and the right move is to spend that time on the formats Deloitte actually sends you: situational judgement and reasoning content in the Immersive Online Assessment, recorded video answers in the Job Simulation and the video interview, and a topic discussion plus a skills and motivation interview at the final stage. If you want a concrete contrast, employers that genuinely do run games look like our PwC Central & Eastern Europe page or Blackstone’s campus process with twelve pymetrics games — Deloitte looks nothing like either.
The single most useful fact about Deloitte hiring is a negative one: there is no game-based assessment. We checked Deloitte’s own careers pages for the UK, Canada, the US, Ireland, South Africa, Australia and the US-India offices, and none of them describes a game, a gamified assessment or a cognitive mini-game battery. Deloitte does not use pymetrics, it does not use Arctic Shores, it does not use Aon or Criteria, and where HireVue is confirmed it is video interviewing only — not HireVue’s game battery. Prep-site lists that group "PwC, Deloitte and KPMG" under Arctic Shores games are wrong: Arctic Shores’ own case-study archive names sixteen clients and Deloitte is not among them. The only traceable connection between the two companies is that Deloitte ranked Arctic Shores in its UK Technology Fast 50 growth list, which is an award to a fast-growing tech company, not a hiring contract.
Deloitte is a network of separate member firms, so the process genuinely differs by country and this page labels every stage with the region it was verified for. The UK is by far the best documented: Deloitte publishes a five-stage route — apply online, Immersive Online Assessment, Job Simulation, Final Stage Assessment, outcome — and names both middle stages itself. What it never does is name the vendor behind them. Prep sites almost universally say Cappfinity builds the Immersive Online Assessment; Cappfinity’s own client-stories page does not name Deloitte, and Deloitte names nobody, so the vendor is unconfirmed and we will not state it.
Canada is where HireVue is confirmed. Deloitte Canada’s student recruitment page says plainly that "If selected for a first-round interview, you will receive an invitation to submit your digital, on-demand video interview via HireVue." Deloitte also runs a branded HireVue tenant at deloitte.hirevue.com, which corroborates HireVue use beyond Canada — but Deloitte US’s own careers pages name no platform at all, so US HireVue is reported and corroborated rather than officially confirmed. One more piece of housekeeping: the free Deloitte Virtual Experience hosted on Forage is not the Job Simulation and is not a hiring stage. It is an optional, self-paced skills program with, in Deloitte Australia’s words, "no cost, no due date", and it is not scored in any application.
Permanent post-university roles across business areas, typically with a professional qualification attached. This is the route that runs the full five stages: application, Immersive Online Assessment, Job Simulation, Final Stage Assessment, outcome.
Permanent school-leaver apprenticeship roles across multiple business areas, following the same apply → Immersive Online Assessment → Job Simulation → Final Stage route as the graduate programme rather than the merged OneStop assessment.
Cardiff-based apprenticeships in Enabling Functions. This is one of the routes where Deloitte merges stages 2 and 3: "For our Entry Level Apprenticeships, and some of our shorter work experience programmes, we’ll roll steps 2 and 3 into one online assessment called OneStop."
A four-to-six week summer placement for penultimate-year students. The difference that matters for preparation is at the final stage: Deloitte states that Summer Vacation Scheme applicants complete only one exercise — the skills and motivation interview — with no topic discussion. That halves what you need to prepare for the final round.
A 12-month placement integrated into a degree course, following the standard UK route.
Two-day paid insight programs for university students. Deloitte states that applications for Spring into Deloitte: Finance (Inspiring Women) "open on Monday 9th November 2026" and that "applications will close once places are filled" — another rolling close rather than a fixed deadline.
Two-day virtual programs for Year 12 students. Career Shapers: Inspiring Women is dated by Deloitte as "Tuesday 16th February – Wednesday 17th February 2027".
ASPIRE is a three-day in-person finance program for Year 12 and 13 students with a state-school eligibility requirement; Explore Work is a virtual, self-paced platform for secondary school students. Neither is a route into the graduate assessment stages.
Co-op and internship candidates must be current students returning to school for at least one semester after the work term; new grad roles are for those graduating within one year of the start date. Deloitte does not sponsor visas for student positions in Canada. The first round is the HireVue on-demand video interview.
Source: Deloitte Canada careers FAQ
A lighter route than the UK’s: an online application that "will take no more than 45 minutes", an immersive online assessment experience with tutorials covering competencies and work style preferences, then a "one-stage, competency-based interview process" you schedule yourself. Deloitte Ireland notes that "Only your first application will be considered", so choose the business area before you submit.
Application review by the Graduate team, "telephonic screening with the Graduate team", then a "face-to-face interview or an Assessment Day with the service line", a final "meeting with a Partner/Director dependent on the process", plus "psychometric or skills based tests depending on the role and Service line", completed within two weeks of the Assessment Centre. No vendor is named and no games are described.
Deloitte’s official US-India recruitment page describes only profile submission ("Your first profile submission will take approximately 30 minutes"), recruiter and hiring-manager review, and contact "regarding next steps and scheduling your campus interview". It names no online test, no vendor and no video platform. Indian prep sites additionally describe an aptitude test and a Versant English voice assessment; Deloitte does not confirm this, so treat it as unverified.
Free, self-paced online programs in cyber, data analytics and technology that award a completion certificate, with in Deloitte Australia’s words "no cost, no due date". They are an optional skills and insight program, not an assessment stage, and they are not scored in any application. Listed here only because candidates routinely confuse them with the UK Job Simulation.
This is the page’s central claim and it is a verified negative. Deloitte’s own UK assessment page sets out every stage and describes the question formats explicitly as ranking, selecting, written responses and recorded video responses — no games. No Deloitte careers page in any region we fetched describes a game, and no vendor case study names Deloitte. Deloitte does not use pymetrics, Arctic Shores, Aon, Criteria or HireVue’s cognitive game battery. If a prep site is selling you Deloitte game practice, it is selling you practice for something that does not exist in this process.
Several prep sites assert that Arctic Shores game-based assessments are used by "PwC, Deloitte and KPMG". We checked the vendor’s own case-studies archive: it names sixteen clients — Experis Academy, Entain, Publicis, ReGeneration, FDM Group, Holcim UK, Sisk, Molson Coors, Thales, Siemens, Capita, Adecco, Kantar, Burness Paull, WSP and Essex Fire & Rescue — and Deloitte is not one of them. The likely origin of the folklore is that Deloitte ranked Arctic Shores in its UK Technology Fast 50, an award for revenue growth rather than a client relationship.
Source: Arctic Shores case studies archive (does not name Deloitte)
The UK process is Deloitte’s own vocabulary: Immersive Online Assessment at stage 2, Job Simulation at stage 3. Deloitte names no supplier for either. Prep sites widely attribute the Immersive Online Assessment to Cappfinity, but Cappfinity’s own client-stories page does not name Deloitte — it names no clients at all — and the only verifiable link between the two is a jointly hosted 2021 ISE diversity webinar, which is not evidence of an assessment contract. Treat the vendor as unconfirmed.
Deloitte publishes no length, question count, section count, timing policy or pass mark for the Immersive Online Assessment. The widely quoted figures — 32 to 35 questions across five sections, untimed, 60 to 90 minutes, no pass mark — come from prep sites that copy each other and then disagree with one another on duration (30 minutes in some, 60 to 90 in others). Since the sources contradict each other and Deloitte confirms none of it, do not build a plan around any of those numbers.
Source: Deloitte UK early careers assessment page (publishes none of these figures)
Deloitte says: "After the assessment, you’ll receive a feedback report about your strengths. This isn’t the outcome of your assessment, but it will provide you with valuable advice on how to develop your skills." Read it as development feedback, not as a result — a positive report does not mean you have passed.
Deloitte lists them as "Ranking response options in order of preference; Selecting the most appropriate response(s) from a given set; Providing written responses; Recording video responses." That last one matters: there is a recorded video component inside the UK Job Simulation, so you need the same recorded-answer composure the Canada and US video rounds demand. Deloitte does not say which platform delivers it, and we will not guess.
For the Job Simulation Deloitte says "Visit our Candidate Zone, it’s full of helpful tips and resources specifically for the job simulation", and notes there are "in-assessment practice questions to help you get familiar with the technology and format". The Candidate Zone appears to sit behind the application flow, so we cannot describe its contents — but if you have an invitation, open it before you start, because it is Deloitte’s own material about Deloitte’s own assessment.
Deloitte: "For our Entry Level Apprenticeships, and some of our shorter work experience programmes, we’ll roll steps 2 and 3 into one online assessment called OneStop." If you are on one of those routes you sit one assessment rather than two, which means the recorded video component and the situational content arrive in the same sitting. The main graduate route is not affected.
Deloitte Canada’s student recruitment page states: "If selected for a first-round interview, you will receive an invitation to submit your digital, on-demand video interview via HireVue." This is the clearest official naming of HireVue anywhere in Deloitte’s global careers estate. It is a video interview — recorded answers to interview questions — and not HireVue’s game battery.
Deloitte US’s own interview-tips page gives STAR-method and elevator-pitch guidance but never names a video platform, an assessment vendor or any game. Against that, Deloitte runs a live branded HireVue tenant at deloitte.hirevue.com headed "Excite. Enlighten. Engage. On Demand Interview", and US candidate reports across consulting, advisory and technical roles consistently describe a one-way HireVue video round with behavioral questions. Reported specifics — 6 to 12 questions, roughly 30 to 60 seconds of preparation, one to three minute answers, sometimes typed written responses, and completion windows of about three days to a week — are candidate and prep-site sourced, not official. The tenant page itself does not specify region or role, so it corroborates HireVue use without proving the US specifically.
Source: Deloitte-branded HireVue tenant; Deloitte US interview tips (names no platform)
Deloitte Canada says second-round interviews "may take place virtually, on-campus or in a Deloitte office" and may involve "a combination of behavioural and/or case interviews. Some roles may also require you to complete an online assessment." Which roles, and what that assessment is, are not published — and no game is described.
Source: Deloitte Canada careers FAQ
Deloitte South Africa lists "psychometric or skills based tests depending on the role and Service line", to be completed within two weeks of the Assessment Centre. No vendor is named and nothing game-shaped is described. If you are in the SA graduate process, the invitation is the only thing that tells you whether a test applies to your service line.
Indian prep sites describe a roughly 90-minute aptitude test covering quantitative, logical, verbal and CS fundamentals, plus a Versant automated English voice assessment, for Deloitte US-India campus drives. Deloitte’s official US-India recruitment page describes only profile submission, review and campus interview scheduling — it names no test, no vendor and no platform. The prep sites copy one another, so this is single-source at best. We are not stating that Deloitte uses SHL, AMCAT or Versant, because no official source names any of them.
Source: Deloitte US-India offices recruitment process (names no test); Indian prep-site accounts
Deloitte Australia’s free Forage-hosted virtual experience programs in cyber, data analytics and technology are "self-paced and free" with "no cost, no due date" and award a completion certificate. They are an optional skills program. They are not a hiring stage, they are not scored in any application, and they are not the UK Job Simulation, despite the similar framing. Doing one is a reasonable way to learn what the work looks like; it is not assessment preparation.
The best-documented Deloitte process anywhere, published by Deloitte with stage names, question formats and final-round timings.
The only region where Deloitte names its video platform in its own words.
Source: Deloitte Canada student recruitment process; Deloitte Canada careers FAQ
Deloitte US publishes preparation advice but never names a platform — so this section separates what Deloitte says from what candidates report.
Source: Deloitte US interview tips; Deloitte-branded HireVue tenant
Three more member-firm routes, each shorter or differently shaped than the UK’s, and none of them game-based.
Source: Deloitte Ireland student application process; Deloitte South Africa graduate recruitment process
Two exercises, each with a published length, and one important exception for the Summer Vacation Scheme.
Recorded video appears in three different places in Deloitte’s process, which makes it the single most transferable thing to rehearse.
Source: Deloitte UK early careers assessment page; Deloitte US interview tips
Deloitte publishes very few hard deadlines. The UK runs on rolling review and closes early on volume, Canada posts in three waves a year, and the US publishes no central campus deadline at all. Everything below was checked on 11 September 2026; where a date is not Deloitte’s own, it is labeled.
| Cycle | Application dates | Likely assessment window | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK early careers, 2026-27 cycle | Rolling — no fixed universal closing date, and applications close early when volume is high | The Immersive Online Assessment and Job Simulation are sent after your application. Prep sites report an invite within days and a five-to-seven-day completion window, but Deloitte does not publish either figure | Official source Deloitte is explicit about the practical rule: "However, we do close applications early when we get a very high volume of submissions, so we recommend applying as early as possible." For most UK candidates that single sentence matters more than any deadline — there is no reward for waiting, and a real cost to it. |
| UK Spring into Deloitte: Finance (Inspiring Women) | Applications open Monday 9 November 2026 and "will close once places are filled" | Not stated by Deloitte | Official source Another rolling close rather than a fixed date, which again rewards applying in the opening days rather than the closing ones. |
| UK Career Shapers: Inspiring Women 2027 | Not stated by Deloitte | Not applicable — the program itself runs Tuesday 16 to Wednesday 17 February 2027 | Official source A two-day virtual program for Year 12 students, dated by Deloitte for 16 and 17 February 2027. Check the live posting for the application close, because Deloitte does not publish one. |
| Canada student and new grad hiring | Three posting waves a year rather than one deadline | The HireVue on-demand video interview follows resume review, for candidates selected for a first round | Official source Deloitte Canada: "Student and new grad opportunities are typically posted on Deloitte.ca/careers in the fall (mid-August to mid-September), the winter (mid-December to mid-January), and the spring (mid-March to mid-April)." Pick your wave and watch the board rather than waiting for a single date. Source: Deloitte Canada careers FAQ |
| US campus recruiting, fall cycle | Not published by Deloitte; driven by individual campus calendars | Candidate reports describe video completion windows of roughly three days to a week | Single source US campus hiring is widely reported to compress into an October and November peak, with the reported one-way video round coming first. Deloitte US publishes neither a central deadline nor the platform name, so treat every specific here as candidate-reported and check your own school’s recruiting calendar and your invitation email instead. |
| South Africa graduate recruitment | Not published on the process page | Role-dependent psychometric or skills tests, completed within two weeks of the Assessment Centre | Official source The only published timing in the South African process is the two-week window after the Assessment Centre for any tests your service line requires. Everything else runs to the service line’s own calendar. |
Start by deleting a task from your list: there are no Deloitte games to practice. That frees the whole block of time most candidates lose to game drilling, and the honest place to spend it is on the three things Deloitte actually assesses — situational judgement in the Immersive Online Assessment, recorded video answers in the Job Simulation and video interview, and a researched topic discussion plus a motivation interview at the final stage.
Prepare by format, not by vendor. Deloitte names no supplier for the Immersive Online Assessment, so there is no simulator of it anywhere and anyone claiming otherwise is guessing. What is transferable is the underlying content: timed numerical and verbal reasoning and rule-finding under a clock. Our reasoning practice at /shl/numerical-reasoning, /shl/verbal-reasoning and /shl/inductive-reasoning trains those formats — that is transferable practice for reasoning content, not a claim that Deloitte uses SHL, because no official source names SHL or any other vendor.
Then give recorded answers their own session. Video shows up three separate times in Deloitte’s process, and it is a different skill from writing: concise, structured, spoken to a camera with no interviewer reacting. Work the researched questions at /hirevue/questions/deloitte, rehearse them at /mock-interviews/deloitte, and record yourself at least once before the real thing.
Step 1
UK: five stages including the Immersive Online Assessment and Job Simulation. Canada: HireVue video interview first, then interviews and possibly an unnamed online assessment. US: interviews plus a reported one-way video. Ireland: application, immersive assessment, one competency interview. South Africa: screening, interview or Assessment Day, Partner or Director meeting, role-dependent psychometrics. Do not prepare for the UK route if you applied elsewhere.
Step 2
No Deloitte stage is a game. The Immersive Online Assessment is scenario-led situational judgement plus reasoning, and the Job Simulation asks you to rank options, pick the best response, write, and record video. Practice choosing between plausible professional responses and justifying the choice, which is a different skill from reaction-time drilling.
Step 3
Deloitte publishes no length or pass mark for the Immersive Online Assessment, so train the formats rather than a target score. Run timed sets at /shl/numerical-reasoning and /shl/verbal-reasoning, and /shl/inductive-reasoning for rule-finding. These build the underlying speed and accuracy; they are not Deloitte’s assessment and no one can sell you that.
Step 4
Recorded video appears in the UK Job Simulation, in Canada’s first-round HireVue interview, and in the reported US round. Work the themes at /hirevue/questions/deloitte, then rehearse at /mock-interviews/deloitte. Use STAR — Deloitte US recommends it by name — and have an elevator pitch ready covering background, strengths, goals and what sets you apart. Watch one recording back; the fixes are almost always pace and filler, not content.
Step 5
Deloitte tells Job Simulation candidates to "Visit our Candidate Zone, it’s full of helpful tips and resources specifically for the job simulation", and provides in-assessment practice questions to get familiar with the technology and format. It sits behind the application flow so we cannot describe it, but it is Deloitte’s own material about Deloitte’s own assessment — read it before anything a third party wrote.
Step 6
Deloitte assigns a topic and expects research and analysis before the day. The topic discussion is a 30 to 40 minute two-way conversation where an assessor will push on your reasoning, so prepare a view you can defend and adapt rather than a script. Then prepare the roughly 50 minute skills and motivation interview separately — unless you are on the Summer Vacation Scheme, where the interview is the only exercise.
Step 7
Deloitte says it closes applications early when submissions are high and recommends applying as early as possible. There is no published UK deadline to aim at, so the deadline is effectively whenever the intake fills. Canada posts in three waves — mid-August to mid-September, mid-December to mid-January, mid-March to mid-April — so watch the board for your wave.
Step 8
The free Deloitte Virtual Experience on Forage is optional, unscored and not a hiring stage. It is a fine way to see what the work looks like and to get something concrete to talk about in a motivation answer. It is not the Job Simulation and completing it does not feed into any application.
No. We checked Deloitte’s own careers pages for the UK, Canada, the US, Ireland, South Africa, Australia and the US-India offices and none describes a game. Deloitte does not use pymetrics, Arctic Shores, Aon, Criteria or HireVue’s cognitive game battery. The UK stages are an Immersive Online Assessment and a Job Simulation whose question formats Deloitte lists as ranking, selecting, written responses and recorded video responses — no games anywhere in that list.
Yes for video interviewing, and officially only in Canada. Deloitte Canada states that "If selected for a first-round interview, you will receive an invitation to submit your digital, on-demand video interview via HireVue." Deloitte also runs a branded HireVue tenant, and US candidates consistently report a one-way video round — but no Deloitte US page names the platform, so US HireVue is reported and corroborated rather than officially confirmed. In every case it is video interviewing, never HireVue games.
Unconfirmed. Prep sites state it as fact, but Deloitte names no vendor on its own assessment page and Cappfinity’s client-stories page does not name Deloitte — it names no clients at all. The only verifiable link between the two companies is a jointly hosted 2021 diversity webinar, which is not evidence of an assessment contract. We will not state a vendor we cannot evidence.
Deloitte publishes neither. The figures you will see quoted — 32 to 35 questions across five sections, untimed, 60 to 90 minutes, no pass mark — come from prep sites that copy each other and then contradict each other on duration. Do not plan around any of them. Deloitte does confirm one thing: afterwards you get a feedback report about your strengths, which it says "isn’t the outcome of your assessment".
No. Prep sites that list "PwC, Deloitte and KPMG" as Arctic Shores clients are wrong: Arctic Shores’ own case-studies archive names sixteen clients and Deloitte is not among them. The likely source of the confusion is that Deloitte ranked Arctic Shores in its UK Technology Fast 50 growth list — an award, not a hiring contract.
No. It is a free, self-paced, optional skills program that awards a certificate, described by Deloitte Australia as having "no cost, no due date". It is not a hiring stage, it is not scored in any application, and it is not the UK Job Simulation — the names are similar and candidates confuse them constantly.
For most UK roles, two exercises after mandatory pre-work researching and analyzing an assigned topic: a topic discussion that "typically lasts around 30-40 minutes", and a skills and motivation interview of around 50 minutes covering your alignment with the capabilities Deloitte looks for. It is held at a Deloitte office or virtually. Deloitte states that Summer Vacation Scheme applicants complete only one exercise — the skills and motivation interview.
Deloitte’s merged assessment for some routes: "For our Entry Level Apprenticeships, and some of our shorter work experience programmes, we’ll roll steps 2 and 3 into one online assessment called OneStop." If you are on one of those routes you sit one assessment instead of two. The main graduate and BrightStart routes keep the two separate stages.
Unverified. Deloitte’s official US-India recruitment page describes only profile submission, recruiter and hiring-manager review, and campus interview scheduling — it names no test, no vendor and no platform. Indian prep sites describe an aptitude test and a Versant English voice assessment, but they copy one another and Deloitte confirms nothing, so we are not stating it as fact.
In the UK, as early as you can. Deloitte says it closes applications early when it receives a very high volume and recommends applying as early as possible, and there is no fixed universal deadline to aim at. In Canada, postings appear in three waves: mid-August to mid-September, mid-December to mid-January, and mid-March to mid-April. Deloitte US publishes no central campus deadline.
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