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Densetsu
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Do not spend any money on a professional resume expert, it won't help much. The type of credentials and experience you have is all that matters. If you aren't getting interviews it is because you simply aren't what they look for. Some formatting and whatnot will not make it or break it.
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AccountingNerd8
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allegro-cpa wrote:
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How can you sit for the CPA exam in California without enough accounting credits? Looks like you only took 4 accounting classes. Or did you take all of them already and did not add that to the resume>? I thought the classes you need are. cost, intermediate 1 and 2, tax, audit, accounting info systems, government, advanced, etc. 24 accounting credits.
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She probably just picked a few classes to put in there as an example. But like I said, I would just delete that section. It doesn't really add anything to the resume. Her experience and GPA are more than enough.
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Nan - Louisiana
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Densetsu wrote:
| Do not spend any money on a professional resume expert, it won't help much. The type of credentials and experience you have is all that matters. If you aren't getting interviews it is because you simply aren't what they look for. Some formatting and whatnot will not make it or break it. |
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I disagree completely. A professional resume writer can transform your "list of duties and responsibilities" boring-looks-like-everyone-else resume into an attention-grabbing "I'm someone who makes a difference" resume. That will get you call-backs and interviews.
If the investment in a professionally written resume gets you a job just one week sooner, you will be $$ ahead.
What was that famous quote? "The definition if insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result."
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AccountingNerd8
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Nan - Louisiana wrote:
Densetsu wrote:
| Do not spend any money on a professional resume expert, it won't help much. The type of credentials and experience you have is all that matters. If you aren't getting interviews it is because you simply aren't what they look for. Some formatting and whatnot will not make it or break it. |
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I disagree completely. A professional resume writer can transform your "list of duties and responsibilities" boring-looks-like-everyone-else resume into an attention-grabbing "I'm someone who makes a difference" resume. That will get you call-backs and interviews.
If the investment in a professionally written resume gets you a job just one week sooner, you will be $$ ahead.
What was that famous quote? "The definition if insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." |
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I agree.
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lapchern
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AccountingNerd8 wrote:
Overall, it looks great....so I'm going to be a little picky here.
At first glance, it's very wordy. That is the only thing that I would change a little bit. You want the important stuff to stand out, and you want the reader to be able to read it pretty quickly.
1) Under your summary section, for the second bullet point, I would take out "section of the CPA exam". So you would just say :"CPA Exam Candidate: Schedule to take BEC in July 2010, and complete remaining parts by early 2011"
2) Under your summary section, I would take out the last bullet point completely. With your high GPA and all that experience that you have, you are obviously very organized, attentive to details..I think by keeping that in there you are just being repetitive. I'm only saying this because there is a lot of info in your resume, and you should only include what is really necessary. On this same note, I might also take out the Accounting Coursework section.
3) For each job that you list, I would keep it to no more than 7 bullet points. For example, for your current job I would take out "Ensured financial information has been recorded accurately".
4) What type of company is St. Josephs?
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1) noted, will do
2) ok - i admit it i forced it in there to hopefully give my resume a more "balanced" look
3) ok
4) hospital that also does a lot of other things like research and provide HMO-like care
thanks!
allegro-cpa wrote:
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How can you sit for the CPA exam in California without enough accounting
credits? Looks like you only took 4 accounting classes. Or did you
take all of them already and did not add that to the resume>? I
thought the classes you need are. cost, intermediate 1 and 2, tax,
audit, accounting info systems, government, advanced, etc. 24 accounting
credits.
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i took enough; i just highlighted a few - i'll probably
take it out like others have suggested
thanks!
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