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I am a regular staff accountant working for 3 years now, and I have no public accounting experience. I am currently working at a company right now full-time, and I used to do temp work before that. A recruiter once told me that a senior accountant (in industry) is expected to just jump right in and do the job, and not get any direction, or not be shown how to do the job.
But my goal is to become a senior accountant in industry. Is what the recruiter is saying true? Because I don’t feel that I can just jump right in to anything, because I don’t have experience with certain things in accounting. And in my current job I think that my exposure to the accounting work is limited. For instance, I never reconciled fixed assets, but if I found a job as a senior accountant that does fixed assets, would I be expected to figure it out? Or would there be someone who would show me how things are done?
I am studying for the CPA exam, and I am considering to get into public accounting just for the experience, but then I heard that it’s difficult to go from private to public, and I have been out of school for a while. So, I am just making preparations in case I can’t get into public accounting, at least any time soon.
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