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md-futcpa
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PJG26 wrote:
gmeyers wrote:
I work in our LA office and it is quite a bit more laid back than our NY
offices. LA has quite a few accountants as UCLA and USC flood the big 4. |
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Just looked on monster and it seems like LA and the Bay Area might have more opening up than the Northeast/mid-Atlantic. I can tell you Philadelphia has more colleges than SoCal and only a moderate demand for accountants. Employers basically acted as if they could replace your ass tomorrow even when the economy was good. Now there's a line out the door for every posting. That's because we have Temple (where I went), UPenn (WHARTON), St. Joe's, LaSalle, Drexel, and Villanova all with very solid accounting programs not to mention PSU people coming home from Happy Valley, other people coming home from upstate PA colleges plus a lot of minor colleges in the Philly metro area. I know NYC/NJ has a similar situation, but actually those areas seem to be a smidge more fortunate than the Philly metro when it comes to job openings due to having more Fortune 500 companies. I have nationally based recruiters tell me to basically look to leave the area. We're a high tax Rust Belt city sugarcoated by colleges and hospitals. I would have never looked at Cali until now, but I think I may have to keep all stones turned at this point.
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Don't shatter my dreams of being a CPA in PA. My friend in FLA (From TEMPLE Like Me) passed the CPA
and found a Job. It can happen. FLA is not exactly on a hiring BINGE.
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LA is just as saturated as NY. If you want to go to a place that isn't saturated you have to go to the midwest.Most midwestern businesses are still doing fine due to tax friendly environment. Also unemployment is about 5% lower than NY and CA.
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killer2021 wrote:
LA is just as saturated as NY. If you want to go to a place that isn't saturated you have to go to the midwest.Most midwestern businesses are still doing fine due to tax friendly environment. Also unemployment is about 5% lower than NY and CA.
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A recruiter told me the "secondary markets" are the best places to look right now due to the lack of saturation from the Big 4. He told me Philly and NYC were just screwed right now because of that, but there are a lot of job openings, just a lot of potential candidates to fill them.
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