The Accountant’s Definitive Guide to Building a Successful Résumé
With recruiting season in full swing, it’s time to dust off your résumé and revamp it. If you are a staff member, chances are your résumé still lists you as being in college. That needs to change.
Everything...
How to Find Value in the Otherwise Valueless Performance Rankings
Good day, fellow capital market servants. It’s been some time, hasn’t it? To those of you that are new-ish to this corner of the Interwebs, my name is Daniel Braddock, the resident Human Resources...
KPMG Won’t Let A Silly Electrical Fire Get In The Way of Party Plans
If you were walking around Midtown yesterday, you might have smelled something not-so-ordinary-even-by-NY-standards in the air. There was an electrical fire at the Hilton Hotel on West 53rd Street and...
Small Firm Associate Wants the Scoop on Jumping to a Bigger Accounting Firm
Has busy season made you question everything and everyone around you? Great! Email us your troubles and we'll marginally improve your life.
Howdy!I've combed through the many post on the site, but I...
You Should Update Your Résumé Today
Yes, it's Wednesday, otherwise known to some of you as, "half way through a week that I have no days off," but what many people don't realize is that busy season is the perfect time to be updating your...
Big 4 Advisory Intern Wants To Squeeze Blood Out Of A Turnip
Your daily serving of vegetables, brought to you by GC.
Subject: Advice: negotiating a starting salary
GC,I am graduating in December from a masters in accounting program and I am currently interning at...
Those Annoying Recruiter Calls Might Be Slowing Down Next Quarter
In a few weeks, many of you plugging along through busy season will decide to call those incessant recruiters back and test the job market. Last week's report by Robert Half and published in the Journal...
Ernst & Young Intern Really Needs Help with an Essay So He Can Go Overseas for Two Weeks
Ed. note: Troubled this busy season? Email us your predicament at [email protected]
For the most part, the emails we receive seeking advice are genuine. We have struggling GPA’ers and struggling...
Will One Bad Class Spell Doom for a Big 4 Hire?
Today's blog post is brought to you by a worrisome soon-to-be-grad.
Hi GC,
I already accepted an offer from one of the Big 4 firms. When I did, my GPA was very solid. However, I took a class last semester...
Will One Bad Class Spell Doom for a Big 4 Recruit?
Today's blog post is brought to you by a worrisome soon-to-be-grad.
Hi GC,
I already accepted an offer from one of the Big 4 firms. When I did, my GPA was very solid. However, I took a class last semester...
