Category Archives: Networking

With All The Symptoms Going Around – You Might Need An Appointment!

Well, I got your attention didn’t I?

The symptoms that I see are related to things that could lead up to being ill-prepared for upcoming career-related life choices. Career health is also something that each student needs to be proactive about rather than waiting until they feel like their career is filled with troubling systems, or worse yet, on life support! You, like so many, probably need a career coaching appointment.

Often students wait until they are nearing their final term to begin to look for work, or even as late as when they complete the program. This is simply far too late to generate any career success or momentum. Often students who choose this approach find themselves unemployed when they complete the DAP program. As a result, anxiety is high, desperation become obvious and it makes it even harder to gain traction for a successful job search.

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Notice: “New in Public Practice Accounting”

Significant Changes Are Taking Place in 2022 – Make sure YOU are ready!

For many years Public Practice Recruiting has had a structure that has been the foundation of campus recruiting periods for students in post-secondary degree and diploma programs throughout North America. Over the last few years this had changed significantly. With skill shortages on the rise, the human capital needs of firms rising and a pandemic complicating everything, it has made the process of attracting and securing the right talent much more challenging for these firms. Even the CPA associations across Canada have ramped up their recruiting activities to support this process over the past few years.

These realities have caused the firms to take a close look at their needs verses the process in place and have determined it is time to take more control of their hiring practices. No surprise really, as the rest of the labour market works this way for the very same reasons. With this new approaching rolling out in 2022, students will need to pay close attention to five major things:

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Securing Employment in a Down Market

Securing employment in a down market seems like an oxymoron to so many. In truth, there are many job opportunities no matter which direction the market is going. How you locate them an obtain them makes all the difference.

Recession has hit the BC market over the last 20 years on several occasions including the .com bust of 2001, to financial crisis of 2008, and a six month market decline in 2014, not to mention the one we are in right now due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Reminder – Online Event | CFA Society Presents “Careers in Finance” Discussion – November 3rd, 12:30pm

As a reminder, the Careers in Finance Discussion event hosted in collaboration with the CFA Society will be held on Tuesday, November 3rd, 12:30 pm.

Hosted by CFA charterholder Karim Allibhai, CPA, CA, CFA, MBA, and Yoel Tewelde, MBA, this special event will give you the opportunity to learn about the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation, a credential that has been described by the Financial Times (Aug 2010) as the “gold standard” among finance degrees around the world.

  • Learn about how to become a CFA
  • Gain an understanding about a day-in-the-life of a CFA
  • Find out about future employment opportunities in finance in Vancouver, and beyond
  • And information about UBC Sauder’s CFA Exam Prep courses

To attend the session, save the date and join the session via the Zoom link posted on COOL.