Advanced Job Hunting

For example, an accountant can find job listings on the all inclusive websites such as Monster and Yahoo! Jobs or on the more specialized, niche-specific websites such as Jobsinthemoney.com. However, where do art teachers look for jobs?

Career Counseling by the Numbers

This site, run by Monterey Peninsula College, asks you to respond to a series of questions by picking one of two options. After working through four pages, you will receive a list of job categories along with percentage matches to your results.

Career Opportunities in the Accounting Field

These job titles could pop up in any type of business. Do you think your doctor does his/her own tax preparation? Probably not. A doctor is in solo practice may hire an outside CPA to keep the books and file the taxes while a doctor in group practice may have an in-house accountant.

Career Tests

Whatever it is that you do, when your personality, abilities, and values align with the organization which hires you, your chances for workplace happiness are much higher. For instance, a non-smoking CPA might not be happy working for a tobacco company lobbyist because

Careers for CPAs in International Accounting

The International Tex Director will provide world-wide tax minimization planning, foreign tax credit, foreign assignment planning, international business advice, transfer pricing analysis, FAS 109, and outbound and inbound structure planning.

Using Keywords To Find Jobs

As of this year, well over 80% of all résumés are filtered by software sorter prior to ever landing on the desk of a living, breathing human being. Your goal, as a job seeker, is to satisfy that software’s need for key words and get onto the desk of the hiring authority.

Personnel Counselor versus Recruiter

Personal initiative: You send your résumé in response to an online job posting or newspaper ad or hand it to a corporate representative at a career fair.

Employment Prospects for Accountants and CPAs

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Career Tests

Whatever it is that you do, when your personality, abilities, and values align with the organization which hires you, your chances for workplace happiness are much higher. For instance, a non-smoking CPA might not be happy working for a tobacco company lobbyist because their values probably will not align.

Recruiters

A personnel counselor waits for you to walk in the door. He or she matches you up with a job order that he or she already has or finds a job that fits your specifications. If the person does not understand what you do now or what you want to do in your next job, it will be very difficult to make a job match. Therefore, be willing to educate this personnel counselor on your career field, the intricacies of your job

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