• As you enter management positions, leadership abilities are the key. It’s not what you can do as an individual but what you can inspire and engage a team to accomplish, so I look for individuals who can share those types of experiences.
• Do your research to find a company and a culture that you can align yourself with and don’t be persuaded by a title or salary alone. Great companies will develop your talents and help find the right path to titles and salaries but a bad culture won’t last long.

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• Come prepared. Spend time researching the firm and developing questions to answers that are critical to your decision-making.



• Don’t forget that a follow-up thank-you note is both a professional courtesy and a demonstration of interest and enthusiasm in the opportunity.

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It is important to limit where you send your applications. Applying to too many companies shows you don't have a job focus. But at the same time, don't limit yourself to one company. Be very selective of who you want to interview with, as it says something about your career goals.

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I would encourage students to attend the resume workshops and learn interview techniques before they come to the actual interview. For accounting students especially, get involved with local clubs like Beta Alpha Psi that provide mock interview practice. You can never over-practice.

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People pursue graduate studies for varied reasons. Some do it for the sheer passion of an intellectual interest still burning at the end of their undergraduate studies. Others need it to prepare for a career in an academic environment or for a profession that requires a specific graduate or professional degree (medicine and law careers are just two examples). Working professionals may need an advanced degree in order to progress further on their career path. And, a graduate degree may provide a means for a career change, particularly when one’s prior education and/or work differ from an intended career.

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Self assessment and self monitoring, measure individual value system (is money most important or is it team work) ask yourself what is important to me? Take career based assessments: Myers Briggs: matches your personality with job titles, measure if you’re are an extrovert or introvert and how that affects what interests you have and what others like you are doing. Strong (Interest inventory): generates job titles based on your interests, explores careers and industries based on your values. Look at the graduate survey, what are recent graduates doing with their major, how long did it take them to get a job after graduating, was their job relevant to their major and what type of job is it (entry level or not).

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Prospective students interested in an international job or internship should be flexible, confident, adventurous, independent, and patient, have an interest in other cultures and be okay with a lack of structure.

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There are several skills that districts look for and it varies district to district. Behavior management system is one aspect that many districts are focusing on. They want to know what system you would use and how it has been effective for you in the past. Districts also want to know what experience you have with special populations and any multicultural experience. Be sure to highlight any language experience you may have, you don’t need to be fluent, but include whatever experience you have. It is a way to show a district that you have had an experience being in the non-dominant population and you know what that feels like.




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