Rising Junior- Smeal Accounting- make me cry if necessary
Title is pretty informative. I'll be a junior in the PSU Smeal College of Business this fall. My GPA could certainly be higher but I'm working to make up for it with leadership and involvement. Two cool internships, one at a boutique PE firm and currently at an intel-backed smartgrid startup.
I chose accounting because it seemed to offer more opportunities than finance, and I wasn't sure what I wanted to do. Now that I have a better idea of what each entails, the audit life seems kinda dull. I'm torn between hanging onto accounting and trying to get into management consulting or switching to finance. I think I could hang in IB but that would require switching to a finance major ASAP (like...tomorrow). That's more I can commit to if it's gonna be a shot in the dark.
Last but probably worth mentioning is I have a personal reference letter from (trying to use some discretion here) the founder of Vanguard. Great man, known him my whole life and could talk about him for hours.
All things considered, what advice can you give me?
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If you really want to keep your anonmity, you should probably remove your fraternity on your resume.
But on your note, if you find audit/tax boring, I would switch out of the accounting major and move to finance
Thanks for pointing out the fraternity name, thought I purged it of everything descriptive
I would put your internships under work experience and I would put work experience above leadership.
my 2 cents: remove all of the high school crap- you don't need it anymore- "caddy"/"server" positions. Remove internships and put them under the header "Work Experience" and leave the fraternity/club stuff under leadership. Use the remaining white-space to either a) add relevant coursework or b) relevant skills (languages/software/certs). Lastly, quantify your experiences more. Ex- Create and maintain a client document matrix "OF OVER 500 firms which" was used by all teams to organize and update relevant files and you really could make many of the descriptions much more specific and demonstrate how you did some things.
Decent application, I don't see why you shouldn't try to reach for job positions in these industries. Take a shot, send out apps, prep for interviews, reach out to your references, and just go for it. No real reason not to. I mean you can still apply for accounting positions as well. Good Luck!
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