The Student CPA

The past eighteen months provided us with a horrible job market. A substantial number of people who lost their jobs at the beginning of the Great Recession are still receiving unemployment benefits because job vacancies have dried up across most industries.  There is a variety of ways to conduct a job search such as leveraging one’s personal and professional networks, attending job fairs, walking in companies’ offices, reading the classifieds, and searching the web.  Because of its pervasiveness and convenience, internet job hunting has become the most widely used avenue for finding job vacancies. Because of the wealth of content available on the internet, it is often difficult to find reliable, relevant, and authoritative sources of information. After a series  of trials and errors, I was finally able to identify four nifty web-based job search aggregators that are constantly updated with mostly legitimate and current job listings. From personal experience, I find it easier to cope with the job hunting related stress when I am able to apply to a couple of jobs every working day.This is since I can wake up every morning looking forward to a phone call because I submitted my resume or/and filled out a few applications the preceding day. I have successfully tried and tested each web based job search tool that I am about to recommend to you. In this first part of  the “The Best of Internet Job Searching Tools” series, only two online job search engines are going to be featured, the other two will be revealed in the second part of this post. Continue reading The Best of Internet Job Searching Tools (Part 1)

As a college student, I always associated the CPA credentials with working in public accounting. My chats with classmates about career prospects in the field of accounting always revolved around working for a CPA firm. It is rather odd but I don’t recollect any of my accounting professors ever providing an overview of the different career avenues available to a Certified Public Accountant or CPA. Although I am applying for admission to graduate school because I wish to develop expertise in fraud examination and business advisory services, I nevertheless did some research to find out what other career options will be available to me once I become a Certified Public Accountant or CPA. I have to say that I was rather pleased with the results of my findings. Well without further ado, let’s go over them: Continue reading Career Options for a Certified Public Accountant (CPA)