Over 20+ years at Isenberg, Kim has built her career around coaching, developing expertise in both accounting and finance areas and leveraging her wide network to create programs and a robust community that supports Isenberg students. Kim works with both undergraduates and specialty master’s students on career development and the job search success. Kim earned her M.Ed. in Student Development from the University of Maine, Orono and a B.A. in Music & Art History from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, ME. Her career has been anything but linear, illustrating that being open to opportunities could just lead you to the career you love!
Technology has many stories to tell. The word itself is synonymous with development and, in much of today’s business landscape, it continues to reshape industries and businesses, even in the trying times brought about by the COVID-19 …
By Kim Figueroa
Kim FigueroaAssociate Director, Career Development
With a slew of features like a discount for early investors or for those who lock up their capital, a minimum return level, or the 1-or-30 model, investors look for more defensive strategies with predictable return profiles. IBCA discusses the …
By Kim Figueroa
Kim FigueroaAssociate Director, Career Development
Investment banking is a division of financial institutions and banks that serves the banks, government sectors, and institutions for stocks, transactions, and mutual funds. In brief, it acts as a financial advisory to investors while investing in various entities.
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By Kim Figueroa
Kim FigueroaAssociate Director, Career Development
Accounting is focused on recording and reporting how a business performed in the past, while finance is focused on analyzing and forecasting how a company is expected to perform in the future. This guide will compare accounting vs …
By Kim Figueroa
Kim FigueroaAssociate Director, Career Development
CPAs and potential CPAs have a variety of career paths from which to choose. Within public accounting, you can work for any sized firm, ranging from a large, international CPA firm to a small local accounting practice. Within the firm, …
By Kim Figueroa
Kim FigueroaAssociate Director, Career Development
Smart Woman Securities invites you to register for the Beyond Your Degree: Careers in Finance conference taking place virtually on Friday, October 1, 2021 from 3:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. This virtual conference will provide insight into the various career …
By Kim Figueroa
Kim FigueroaAssociate Director, Career Development
UMass Handshake is a fairly intuitive tool that uses AI that fills your feed with postings similar to your searches. You can include a number of filters including location, job type, part time/full time, paid, work study, industry, employer names, …
By Kim Figueroa
Kim FigueroaAssociate Director, Career Development
For many people, the past year has been among the most difficult of their lives. But for others, including branding and marketing expert Vince Thompson, it's been the exact opposite.
“This has been the greatest year of my life,” says Thompson, the …
When you’re in a job interview, a question like “What are your career aspirations?” could catch you off guard. You likely prepared to answer common interview questions about your past experiences and whether you have the skills needed for the …
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