http://www.helpaboutcollege.com Free Information Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:10:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Advanced Job Hunting 401 There are those for whom job hunting is easy because the jobs are clearly listed and there are those for whom job hunting is not easy because their current job title does not match how that job is advertised now or they are in ... http://www.helpaboutcollege.com/careers/advanced-job-hunting/ Career Counseling Yes, this is an accounting blog so at least you are pretty clear that you want your career to focus on accounting.  Good start! The English majors don’t even know this much yet! J Whatever it is that you do, when your personality, abilities, and values align with the organization ... http://www.helpaboutcollege.com/careers/career-counseling-by-the-numbers/ Career Opportunities in the Accounting Field Where do you want to go in the world? In which niche of business do you want to work? The great news is that there is probably a job there waiting for you. First, let us take a quick look at job titles in the ... http://www.helpaboutcollege.com/careers/career-opportunities-in-the-accounting-field/ Career Paths for Accountants At the top of the corporate food chain, many senior corporation executives have a background in accounting, internal auditing, or finance. Ah, you ask, how did they get there? In all likelihood, they started out at the bottom of the corporate food chain and worked their way ... http://www.helpaboutcollege.com/cpa/career-paths-for-accountants/ Testing the Waters: Career Tests that Work for You! Yes, this is an accounting blog so at least you are pretty clear that you want your career to focus on accounting.  Good start! The English majors don’t even know this much yet! J Whatever it is that you do, when your personality, ... http://www.helpaboutcollege.com/careers/career-tests-2/ Careers for a CPA in Information Technology (IT) A CPA who is as fluent in accounting as they are in information technology (IT) will find that there are no limits on their careers. Why? If one sector on IT isn’t booming, another sector usually is. In at least one case, the ... http://www.helpaboutcollege.com/cpa-careers/careers-for-a-cpa-in-information-technology-it/ Careers for a CPA in Sports Management “Put me in Coach. I’m ready to play today. Look at me. I can be center field.”—John Fogerty While you may be better at crunching numbers than at sinking a putt or scoring a touchdown, that’s no reason why you can’t work with athletes as a CPA. A ... http://www.helpaboutcollege.com/cpa-careers/careers-for-a-cpa-in-sports-management/ Careers for a CPA in Entertainment A CPA’s career in the entertainment industry can be much more than making sure that Tom Cruise has enough money set aside for retirement or that Meryl Streep paid her taxes on time. Want to sashay down the red carpet with flash bulbs popping in ... http://www.helpaboutcollege.com/cpa-careers/careers-for-a-cpa-in-entertainment/ Careers for CPAs in International Accounting International Accounting The global marketplace offers CPAs a variety of exotic locales around the world in which to work. As an accountant, you know the language of numbers (accounting); by learning foreign languages, you expand your career opportunities to work and travel overseas. With NAFTA and ... http://www.helpaboutcollege.com/careers/careers-for-cpas-in-international-accounting/ Changes to the CPA Exam in January 2011 AICPA has announced numerous changes to the content, structure, and format of the CPA Exam which will be given on or after January 1, 2011. These changes include: replacing the one long simulation in the current format with several short Task-Based Simulations (TBS) ... http://www.helpaboutcollege.com/cpa-careers/changes-to-the-cpa-exam-in-january-2011/