11 Accounting Trends for 2021/2022: New Forecasts & What Lies Beyond?

By: Astrid Eira

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 Figueroa Associate Director, Career Development
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CPA Career Paths

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 Figueroa Associate Director, Career Development
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Ensuring Best Results Using Filters In UMass Handshake

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 Figueroa Associate Director, Career Development
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Student Spotlight: Marni Heiten, MSA ’21

Q: Where did you attend college prior to entering Isenberg’s MSA program and what did you study? Are there other aspects of your undergraduate experience that relates to your choice of the MSA?
A: Prior to entering Isenberg’s MSA program, …

By Melissa Salva
Melissa Salva Executive Director, Undergraduate Employer Relations & Operations
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50 Best Accounting Firms for 2022

Today, we release our annual Accounting 50, a ranking of the best accounting firms to work for. The ranking is based on a survey of approximately 11,400 accounting professionals, who were asked to rate their firms in several workplace categories, …

By Firsthand
We help applicants, students, job-seekers and professionals like you find the right career path using the power of firsthand experiences.
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How to Use the ‘5 Whys’ to Clarify Your Career Goals

If you’ve been looking for a way to understand what makes you unique, prepare for interviews, or decide between competing job offers, let me introduce you to the 5 Whys.

The 5 Whys is a “root cause analysis” that aims …

By Firsthand
We help applicants, students, job-seekers and professionals like you find the right career path using the power of firsthand experiences.
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What They Didn’t Tell Me in College About Finding a Job: Essential Wisdom for Your Job Search

Most people know that they want to get a job after they graduate, but there aren’t really classes that teach you how to get that post-college dream job. Lucky for you, we’ve got a few tips to share through the …

By Kim Figueroa
Kim Figueroa Associate Director, Career Development
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