[Natalierose]

Hello All,

I’m coming into my 3rd tax season and I’m done with 2/4 cpa exams. (hopefully 3 after Wednesday)

In the next year or two I will likely be moving either back to my home down (70k ish people) or Charlotte NC. I’m currently in Seattle where we have TONS of awesome jobs in industry…Amazon, Google, Zillow ect

My question is though, if I decide to move to a location with less big companies/good industry jobs…am I better off staying in public until the move? Will this keep more options open upon moving?

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[Anonymous]

I think you'd have to research where you're going to get more information on that. If you're going somewhere with similar types of private accounting to the types that you could do in Seattle, then some private experience may be very helpful. Let's say you worked at Amazon for the next couple years, and your hometown has a smaller online retailer in it; your Amazon experience might be considered highly valuable to them. However, your Amazon experience probably wouldn't be as helpful to a manufacturing company (unless you worked in Amazon's wing making their Amazon-branded products, but I suspect a lot of those aren't made by Amazon and only branded by Amazon).

As an out-of-town candidate, the closer you can get to the job they're hiring for, the fewer questions will remain on the table. So, if you'll be expecting to work in manufacturing in your hometown, and get a gig with Zillow now, that's probably not going to be seen by them as being as useful as continuing exposure to multiple industries through public. However, if you can get an accounting position at an manufacturing plant in Seattle, that would be more transferable to manufacturing in your hometown than random public experience would be.

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