Accounting Interview Tips – Why Should We Hire You?
It’s a shame that we can’t offer a free set of knives, or a “but wait there’s more” when a prospective employer asks, “Why should we hire you?” Here are some accounting interview tips to help you better prepare to answer these types of questions.
How to Impress in a Second Accounting Interview
Congratulations on making it to the next round in a highly competitive job market. It means that your potential employers were pleased with what they saw in your first interview. To continue that positive trend, here are some tips for nailing your second accounting interview.
How to Turn Weaknesses into Strengths
According to the best-selling book Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success, 97% of employees are able to identify their career limiting behaviors. And yet, of those 97%, only 10% change their behavior after receiving constructive feedback in a performance review.
6 Things Employers Want to Hear in an Accounting Interview
An accounting interview can be a stressful affair. After all, you have a short window of time to make a great impression and separate yourself from the other candidates. Here are 6 things you can say in an accounting interview that will have employers sitting up and taking notice.
Tips from Finance Recruiters – Acing the Phone Interview
Finance recruiters and employers often use a phone interview as a way of determining potential fit for a role. This makes acing the phone interview an imperative part of landing the accounting job that you want. Here are some common phone interview questions and how to answer them.
The Accounting Interview: Questions That Test Emotional IQ
Questions that measure technical fit often take priority over emotional IQ in an accounting interview, but do they have the self-awareness, empathy and social skills to be a valuable member of your team?
Tips from Finance Recruiters: The Elevator Pitch
Finance recruiters meet with job seekers every day, most of whom would love to know how to craft a great elevator pitch. Make no mistake, that 30 seconds is a real asset in moving you towards your career goals. You’ll use your elevator pitch in networking events, in answer to
Top Questions to Ask in an Accounting Interview
Accounting interviews can be terrifying enough, let alone having to generate intelligent questions that show you understand the business and are certainly the candidate of choice. Here are the top questions to ask in an accounting interview:
How to End Your Finance Interview with a Bang
Here’s the thing – people (and this includes your prospective employer who’s interviewing you in three days) remember the highlights of a conversation/interview. They’re also influenced by how the interview ends. In fact, here’s a fancy formula for an award winning interview: peak moments + strong ending =
Peaking in Your Accounting Interview
Great athletes plan their peak to coincide with a major competition. It takes discipline, focus and a whole lot of advance preparation. And while you’re not going to increase your protein intake, or run three sets of stairs to get ready for your accounting interview, there are strategies you
What Not to Say in a Finance Interview
You’re all dressed up in your best clothes. You enter the interview room, offer a firm handshake and your best professional smile. You are, in other words, off to a fantastic start in your finance interview.
There’s only one problem. You haven’t done a lot of company
Dressed to Kill: The Finance Interview
According to Business Insider you only have 7 seconds to make a first impression. Whoa! Hold your horses (and other western metaphors we can’t call to mind right at this moment). Did you say “7 seconds?” If that’s the case, a firm handshake, professional smile and the right clothes are
