Top 75 trainee interview: Mercer & Hole

In our trainee series, Zak Jakubowski talks to Molly Tait and Matt Pollard, audit trainees at Mercer & Hole, about juggling working days with study and their ambitions to become ACA qualified

Both from St Albans, Molly Tait (aged 21) and Matt Pollard (aged 20) joined the apprenticeship pathway at Mercer & Hole, ranked 36^th in the Accountancy Daily Top 75.

Tait and Pollard have both been at the firm for just over two years. After a year and a half the trainees have already passed their AAT level three and are underway with their ACA qualification which takes three years to complete.

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