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Deloitte has what it calls an "apprenticeship model." The international auditing and professional services firm hires thousands of entry level employees with the expectation that most of them will work hard, then leave after they've learned marketable skills. The organization--like many companies--looks like a pyramid, with many more employees at the bottom level than at the middle or top level. That structure makes sense when there's a lot of grunt work to do. In the process of auditing a company, for instance, Deloitte employees used to pick up to 100 contracts to review manually.