Communicating For the Future
Accounting recruiting starts early. My sophomore year was filled with networking with the Big Four at different dinners and ice cream socials. Now that I’m participating in two sophomore leadership programs, it’s hitting me that they want me to decide on my service industry very soon. I just returned from EY’s Los Angeles Emerging Leadership Program and I know the survey is coming within the next few days. How am I, a rising junior, supposed to know what I might want to do when I’ve graduated?
While many students in this position are considering audit versus tax, I’m also looking into forensics. I first heard about forensic accounting my first semester of sophomore year at an accounting event held by career center. I still remember how amazed my friend and I were when she started describing her job and different cases that she had worked on before. When I was calling a Babson alum who is now working as an accountant for Google, I remember he referred to forensics as the “sexy accounting.” I thought it was just him who might have given it this name. But, I was wrong. During my last two days, it’s been referred to as the “sexy one” by three different professionals.
我今年的暑期实习已经给了我对这个领域的一点见解，我完全理解它的名字。我喜欢我在SEC做的工作，我可以看到我将来这样做。但是，有很多不同的因素需要考虑。例如，洛杉矶办公室可能接受大多数一定的法医实习生。这是一个很少的练习，他们真的没有招募大学。虽然有可能，但我一直在提醒每一个非常困难的事件。当他们继续劝阻我这样的时候，我觉得我想让他们更加错误。此外，由于取证是如此之小，它真的限制了不同的职业道路机会。为了打击这一点，我一直与秘书处的人交谈，并在他们到达这里之前听他们所做的事情。虽然所有人都在四大会计师事务所开始，但他们也完成了更多。 Some have worked at the FBI or small competitor firms to the Big Four.
I think your internship should help give you insight on what you want to do in the future. But remember that it’s not just whether you liked the work or not. There are a lot of different factors to consider and the professionals at your company are a perfect resource to see what their advice is and what they’ve done. Remember, it’s most important to communicate!