How to find a grad job in finance/ accounting?
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Well, first off you'll need an updated resume.  You'll want to list your experience, both educational and practical. Make sure you include your goals and aspirations, be careful to word it loosely enough to garner interest outside of your immediate desires. Your college should have a placement service available, they can help you with interested employers and a repository for students' resumes.  Decide where you want to live and start a newspaper subscription in that locale, paying close attention to the financial section of the help wanted ads.  Go online and create an account with various employment search engines; e.g., Monster.com, Yahoo.com, etc.
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Try http://www.g2bay.com/resumes\n\nThis is one interesting Recruiting company.  They split their commission with job seekers 50-50!
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Finance is the key to getting the top jobs, and advancing within them.  More CEOs come out of Finance than any other background.\n\nAccounting is tactical - you figure out what's in the numbers.  Finance is strategic - you plan how to grow the numbers.  Firms therefore put higher value on Finance.\n\nInfo Systems is a good field, but not if you want to get into Finance or Business Consulting.  The demand will be there in ten years, but lots of jobs here are moving to India and China - limiting opportunities in the US/Singapore/other wealthy nations.  Plus you'd have a tough time breaking into banking or business consulting if you're experience is only in Info Systems, and very few CEOs come out of IT.
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Go onto www.microsoft.com and go to the Microsoft Office section.  They have tons of resume templates and I'm sure they'd have a number of them designed specifically for accountants.  Good luck!
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You don't have to do all of those if you don't want to.  What's going to matter to the company that hires you is your ability to pass the exams, but you don't have to take the first couple exams in any particular order, and if you can pass one before you start job hunting, you'll pretty much be set.  Therefore, I recommend majoring in either Math (with heavy emphasis on Statistics) or Finance.  It certainly won't hurt to take as many classes as you can from both - and some classes in Business or Economics wouldn't hurt either.  I personally don't think the Accounting classes are overly crucial.  Good luck!
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try countrywide home loans. They are usually willing to give accounting degree holders jobs without much experience (as long as you know your accounting, have basic office skills such as typing and using calculators). My friend got a job there checking collateral. She later moved up to working at Warner Brothers as a contracts administrator. Goodluck.
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Take internships for companies that you are interested in working for after you graduate. It will allow you to "put your foot in". Companies usually hire people who have interned for them vs ones who didn't.
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Dear friend, please specify your locational conditions and also specify your qualifications, experience , etc.\n\nFor small to medium sized companies , B.Com or M.Com. degrees can do but for big sized companies they require C.As or MBA (finance). Also these days you need to have Computerised Accounting skills.\n\nYou can approach various placement consultants or online job sites or just newspapers.
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Contact the school you graduated from.  Almost every school has a Career Center/Career Resource Center, and they offer services to graduates, too.  You should be able to work with them to update your resume, look through job postings and get some pointers on the current job market.  \n\nGood luck, hope it helps!
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If you have the time, look for an internship in a company where you might want to work after obtaining your MBA. There are paid internships, though they're more often unpaid. Otherwise, look on Craigslist or consult friends in the industry. Connections are often the best help.
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1.  Depends on type of analyst. If you work on Wall Street, a CFA or MBA is what you want, although undergrad degree in finance, accounting, economics or some heavy math major will help (engineering).  If you work at a company that sells goods or services and are crunching numbers for internal budgeting, a CPA will help, but the above undergrad degrees work well.  It's best to know something about accounting, finance and economics.\n\n2. No one will care about these things at all.  They are meaningless fluff.  You sell employers on specific skills and experience and your personality.  Some employers are looking for people who attended Ivy League Schools.  Others couldn't care less and others still see those people as snobby, spoiled rich kids (sometimes b/c it's true and sometimes b/c the employer is jealous or feels intimidated by a pedigree).\n\n3. It depends on the job.  If you work as an internal business analyst, you might just crunch numbers all day, working with spreadsheets and databases.  If you are preparing internal or external reports, then you will have to do a lot of writing as well to explain the numbers.   If you follow the stock market as an analyst, then will also need to keep a handle on market news.  Everyone wants everything yesterday. \n\n4. Yes.  I work in equity research, so I am in the office by 7:30, sometimes as early as 5:00 a.m.  I usually work until 6:00 p.m., but often have to work until 10:00 p.m. or midnight.  I also work some on the weekends.  Comp depends on location and rank.  Generally, if you work in NYC, then you will make more than other places, but you also work longer hours.  Maybe as an analyst right out of undergrad, you make $60k to $80k.  As a 1st year associate, $100k to $250k, again, depending on experience level and location.\n\n5. Lots of accounting, finance and economics. \n\n6.  Time constraints, juggling multiple projects, working with difficult people and sometimes lack of sleep
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rob a bank!just kidding.there are sometimes post-grad funding programs that you could look into.
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You're welcome to take the test, but to get a job in a reputable office, you'll need the education from an regionally accredited school. Its the accounting background that they're looking for and with the necessary accounting classes, you have the potential of more money. You should also have several courses in economics. Good luck!
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I am SO in the same boat. It is difficult unless you are a finance/ accounting major, where jobs are at a premium.  BUT if you can get into marketing/sales positions where your hard work is what yields the cash, that is great b/c no ceiling for earning potential.  What is your degree in? Where do you live? Both those questions will affect your career..... Maybe a good investment would be a Master's Degree?   Just something to think about I guess.   Keep sending your resume EVERYWHERE even jobs you think you are UNDERqualified for.  Sometimes, you might land an interview, and even if you don't have the credentials on paper, they might like you in person!!!   GOOD LUCK!!!! :)
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Look for any colleges in the area and talk to their respective career centers! If you just graduated in May, than you should be relatively familiar with the current job market. Also, check close schools for an on-campus Marketing organization. Many of these organizations need companies to  come in to weekly meetings to provide some info on the current job market and to see what your company has to offer.
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Dear Sir:\n\nIt would be my pleasure to answer ur queries. Look, it depends on what u wanna do next? If u want to go for application, u better go for CFA Program. And if u want to go for theory, u better go for MBA in Finance or Ph.D in Finance. For CFA program, u can surf www.cfainstitute.org. For MBA in Finance, u can check Graduate School of Business (GSB), University of Chicago. Web: www.uchicago.edu
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If I understand your question correctly, you need to make some research to find how you can get the best of your Degree, try to check the online financial news, such as wall street, read some good articles from Harvard or McKenzie to apply the best practices for the industry you are interested at.\nAs an accountant you also need to understand the job profile after you complete your studies, it is also good if you want to pursue your bachelor degree in programming to visit the online programming tutorials or buy the MCSD library C.D it will enhance your knowledge in programming (Visual basic, C++, object oriented)\nI always recommend to those who are confused about which subject they should choose, creating a small table of advantages and disadvantages of each subject, and why you should take this subject or not. \nHere are some tips to compare:-\n1-Personal interest.\n2-Market recognition.\n3-Career growth.\n4-Financial stability.\n5-Challenges.\n6-Personal skills (level).\n7-Salary package.\n8-Career diversity.\n\nLet me know if you need more information. \nGood luck.