re: Accounting Majors -- Any experiences here?

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The hours can be long, and the work under appreciated by both your bosses and clients.

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This certainly can be true, I've found that it is pretty unique to your experience though. Some client teams have a totally toxic culture and can't keep associates long enough to become seniors. Others get along great and turnover is low and people tend to only leave for better opportunities with congratulations from their coworkers.

My fiance has an accounting degree and is one test away from her CPA license. The courses were tough, but if you have a good math background and study, you should do just fine. The she was a dual major, so she had more work than really necessary. It’s a good field to get into. The money is good and job security is pretty solid. Even during the COVID situation, she had plenty of overtime and pulled in some good bonuses. The CPA is rough. It’s four exams that must be completed within 18 months. It’s a frick ton of information, most of it is irrelevant to her daily responsibilities. But when she gets licensed, she will be on track to make partner at her firm. So, take that for what it’s worth.

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TX A&M, Uncle Ernie, EY.
He is in A&M PPA program

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He'll enjoy it, sucks it happened with all this Covid shite going on, but he'll still learn a lot.

My advice, everyone knows you don't know what you're doing, just work hard and try to learn as much as you can.

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This isn't really how on campus recruiting works at all.

Source: me that does on campus recruiting.

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Then a lot has changed, because that is exactly the experience I had on both sides.

Price, Grant and RSM also recruited him out of Dallas. If you are with one of those, maybe you all were on a call together.

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You don't go through the school to get resumes and grades and all that mostly. I know at LSU they have job postings on their recruiting type site (can't recall the name off the top of my head) but those are just links to the postings. All resumes and transcripts are going to have to be loaded onto the firms hiring portals.

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Interesting. Now that I'm at a small firm, we don't have a formal recruiting process (no need). But when we are looking to hire a graduate, we work with a website called Handshake and we get resumes and transcripts directly from the local colleges (SLU, UNO, Tulane, Loyola, etc).

Then, we choose which ones we want to contact, and reach out to those students directly.

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If you dont mind sharing some knowledge, whats the protocol on recruiting students who may want to work in different cities when they arr in a specific city? For instance, Im at Boise State but Id very much like to move closer to home (Cenla). Id love the opportunity to work in Houston, New Orleans, Mobile, etc. But I'm sure that if a recruiter heard that they would just see a headache, if its even feasible. Would the best course of action just be to stay In Boise until I got a few years of public experience? This is all assuming that I go through the recruiting process and school smoothly, of course. I know thats not always a given.

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If you are a great candidate they will accommodate you. But the best way to accomplish this would be to get an internship locally, obviously show out at said internship and land a job offer. From there, negotiate your location. Every office is typically looking for new staff.

I’m speaking of Big 4 obviously, which have a national footprint.

1. Recruiting varies a lot by school. If you’ve got a lot of firms recruiting and the Big 4 recruiting your school, it can be overwhelming but it’s not that bad. If you have a good GPA and decent social skills you will be fine. If you don’t have the grades, just try and show a lot of enthusiasm and interest for whatever local/regional firms you like and somebody will bite.

2. Hardest class was advanced accounting/intermediate 3. The tax courses were the least enjoyable though due to just being memorization exercises most of the time.

3. Public vs industry: I’d always recommend starting in public first, but a staff position with a large corporation can be better experience than local CPA firms depending on where you want to take your career. Industry is where most everyone ends up eventually but it’s a lot easier to move up if you come in as a manager rather than a staff.

4. CPA exam is a big time commitment, try and get it done before you start working if possible.

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But the best way to accomplish this would be to get an internship locally, obviously show out at said internship and land a job offer. From there, negotiate your location. Every office is typically looking for new staff.

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Personally, I'd go ahead and intern where you want to work. The biggest component of the internship is fit within the group which you obviously aren't going to get. Getting one locally and then moving for full time is better than not getting the internship at all, though.

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I have experience with both LSU and UNO and UNO had a great program for acct

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My dad's friend's father was head of Tulane accounting and said to do UNO. It was much cheaper and their students pass the CPA more on the first try. Don't regret it, was dirt cheap.