This is me! Introduction and a call for advice - What would you do if you were me?
Just wanted to introduce myself. I am a Finance and Accounting student in my fourth year of college and last (managed to squeeze those 150 credits hours in 4 years somehow). I currently work as a Business Analyst and have had one finance internship my sophomore summer year. My GPA currently is a 3.9 and I am at a non target University. I'm the president of two organizations currently and have been heavily involved in organizations and the community since freshman year. I am very open to anything when it comes to my future career path but I do have specific aspirations I would be happy to fulfill (financially ambitious, love of traveling and love for African development). I am more interested into my Finance major than in my Accounting major but will still have a bachelor in each when I graduate next May. I am considering doing the CPA however if I am going into Finance not sure if it will be that useful.
A little about who I am as a person: I am a social butterfly, speak 4 languages (going on 5 someday) and just love learning about new cultures, meeting people and other. I am very creative, my classmates always thought I would end up an actress, singer or rock star (anything really but an accountant) I lived 10 years in Senegal West Africa and the rest of my few years in Canada, Montreal/ Columbus Ohio and Northern Kentucky. I give great important to task orientated work as I like seeing that my efforts have tangible end products. I love working on projects, presenting, making powerpoint and all of that beautiful creative nonsense. I thrive working in teams and usually slightly impose myself as a go - to person not necessarily the leader (I'm a good listener so usually try to keep everyone on the same level of authority)
I really do feel like I don't have enough knowledge of the industry I am currently in and what to look forward to and feel like I need to get a mentor to give advice and pointers (this website is close enough to that I guess).
So this post (that ended up being a bit too extensive I realize) was to introduce myself but also welcome tips from everyone here. If you had my background, what would you do and look into? I'm starting to apply to jobs for post graduation and my searches have been mostly focused on finance leadership development programs as they seem to give you the opportunity to dip your toes into different areas and find your forte (plus I enjoy traveling and working on projects).
Just let me know what you think, if you have any tips or just say hi!
Boutiques all the way, you sound like you would be a great asset to a smaller team and your talents could help you stand out.
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