Broken Record of Enjoyment
11 04 09 - 16:48 Category: .
Fall is the accounting firms recruiting season. Now until November is when our company finds the internships for the upcoming tax season, summer, and new hires to bring on in fall 2010.
It all starts out with "Meet the Firms" events. Being one of two male staff accountants in the firm, I get to go to quite a few of these things.
I love doing it. Yes, it's standing around for 2-3 hours saying the same thing over and over to potential recruits collecting a stack of resumes and trying to remember names, but it's still fun. It's meeting new people. It's also scary to think that I'm the first impression and representing the firm.
It's hard to remember everyone, and some resumes I look at and just go "who...?" I've taken this to mean that the ones I can remember are the ones that stood out, the ones worth remembering. Last night I ran out of business cards (embarassing) and started using a coworkers with my name written on it.
Some of my favorite "Really, you just said that to me?" moments include:
- When I ask "why accounting?" and I get "because it's my major" or "because it's easy." I've even heard a few "I like business finance more, but the jobs are better in accounting." Even worse I had one guy tell me not only does he like finance more, but he thinks accounting is boring and easy.
- Similarly people have said they want to be CFOs or work in finance, so why are they talking to us?
- I've heard long soliloquys on why someone's GPA is so slow.
I truly enjoyed it. The interesting part next will be to see how much the partner in charge desides to listen and go with our recomendations. He wasn't at last night's event, so it will all be our input. We haven't met to go over last week's event yet. I'm slightly worried, because so many have been interviewed up to this point, (~20) some I've met the last two weeks might not even get the chance. It makes it hard for me, because if I like someone I can't help but become their advocate on some level.