Since I wasn’t in university during the spring, I missed some important recruiting opportunities there. Once the recruiting starts in the fall, interviews will come up very quickly, and I might not have a chance to go to enough events before then.

If you haven’t gotten involved yet, accounting recruiting is an interesting process. Accounting companies come to my university, and invite groups of students out to dinner, to “get to know them.” They get the names of these students from the membership list of clubs like Beta Alpha Psi (the accounting honor society), professors, and other connections.

If you connect to enough people at dinners, then you get a chance to have an on-campus interview early on in the fall semester, in September or October.

If that goes well, you might get invited to an office visit later on, and then you might get the job/internship offer you were looking for.

Last year I didn’t have too many on-campus interviews because I felt pretty secure about getting an internship offer from the company I went with. This year, I’m going to take the time to go to some mock interviews at my university’s career center to get back in practice.

It should be interesting to see how recruiting has changed since I went through it last year, with the recession and all. Not only do firms not need to expand the number of employees that they have right now, but many people expect the (currently very low) retention rates at accounting firms to go up. Now that there are fewer jobs out there, those younger employees are expected to stop switching jobs as much as they did before.

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