Resume Look - Page 2

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  • #202735
    pfloyd
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    Hey guys I’m a recent college grad who is still living at home and feeling a little depressed about not finding my first true accounting job yet but I got some money saved up. Would anyone mind taking a look at my resume if I emailed it to you? Thanks

    AUD 5/27/16 74 &#%!! 7/13/2016 86!
    BEC 8/17/2016
    FAR 11/04/2015 73, 1/4/2016 75 (phew!)
    REG 2/26/2016 74. 4/2/2016 79

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  • #781300
    pfloyd
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    AUD 5/27/16 74 &#%!! 7/13/2016 86!
    BEC 8/17/2016
    FAR 11/04/2015 73, 1/4/2016 75 (phew!)
    REG 2/26/2016 74. 4/2/2016 79

    #781301
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Try editing out your personal info, taking a screenshot of your resume (or printing to an image file), then uploading to IMGUR or something like that…there's some things that I can't tell exactly if they're weird due to lack of formatting from the copy-paste, or if they are weird due to how they're written. If they're written that way, then there's lots of advice I can pass on; if they're just due to the copy-paste, then it would be pointless to go through them all. 🙂

    In general, your resume needs editing. If you still have access to tools through your college, try taking it to the writing center and see if they can help edit it; if not, find a friend who is good with editing and get their help. For starters, besides the things I saw others mention:

    SKILLS AND EXPERTISE
    ï‚§ Aspiring Staff Accountant seeking an entry level auditing position for a govermantal entity
    ï‚§ Detail-oriented and highly-organized with the ability to learn new skills quickly with a strong work ethic
     Proven ability to multi-task while meeting tight deadline schedules and successfully fulfilling client’s needs
    ï‚§ Computer Skills: MS Office Excel, MS Office Word, Peachtree Accounting Software, and Quick Books

    Header: If you want to include your objective line in this section, then “Summary” would fit it better than “Skills & Expertise”.

    First line: Are you a staff accountant currently? If not, then you aspire to be a staff accountant, you are not currently a staff accountant, so you're not an aspiring staff accountant. To be an aspiring one says you already are one. Also, if you're seeking an audit position, then you're not aspiring to be a staff accountant, but a staff auditor. “Accounting graduate seeking…” or “Tax professional seeking…” or something like that would be more appropriate to your experience.

    Second line: I don't think “highly-organized” is hyphenated. Also, I don't think that choice of wording works well. Something about ‘highly organized” just sounds weird, even without the hyphen.

    Third line: “deadline schedules” – pick one or the other, not both. “while meeting tight deadlines” or “while meeting tight schedules”, but “deadline schedules” doesn't really work.

    Fourth line: “Microsoft Excel” etc. would be a more common way of listing these than “MS Office Excel”. I'm not aware of any Excel that is not part of Office, so specifying Office isn't necessary. I'd rather list “Office Suite, specifically Excel” etc., or list them as “Microsoft Excel” etc., or if you really want the Office part included and to list each you could do “Microsoft Office Excel” etc., but abbreviating Microsoft then including the unnecessary modifier of Office looks very odd.

    …some of that is more content-related, some just editing. The editing is the critical part, and should be able to be provided by anyone who is good with English grammar, so the writing center at your university would be a good starting point. The content-related is helpful too, and once the grammar is fixed, the accounting world (us here 🙂 ) can help out more with the content-specific info.

    #781302
    pfloyd
    Participant

    John Smith
    12 main street Park Ave C: (570) 999-9999 H: (570)666-6666
    INTRODUCTION
    ï‚§ Recent college graduate seeking an entry level staff auditor position for a public accounting firm
    ï‚§ Computer Skills: Peachtree Accounting Software, Quickbooks, Microsoft Excel (Pivot Tables, Multiple
    What If Formulas, and Vlook-ups), Microsoft Word, and Microsoft PowerPoint.
    EDUCATION
    BACHELORS, ACCOUNTING: Bloomsburg University 2011-2015
    150 CREDITS- Summer 2016
    Passed FAR and REG Section of CPA Exam
    Cumulative GPA 3.57 Cum Laude Major GPA 3.83
    Inducted into Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society Spring 2015
    PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
    HR BLOCK
    TAX PROFESSIONAL Jan 2016- April 2016
    ï‚§ Prepared tax returns for clients while building rapport and inquiring if they qualified for certain deductions
    ï‚§ Answered phone calls from clients and provided them with professional tax advice
    ï‚§ Completed 13 continuing education credits of federal tax and 2 credits of ethics
    ACCOUNTING INTERNSHIP May 2015- September 2015
    WEST WYOMING TAX OFFICE
    ï‚§ Performed bank reconciliations for various clients and ensured journal entries were placed in the correct
    accounts in QuickBooks.
     Completed various tax returns such as: 1040’s, 1065’s, 1120’s, and 1120s’s for various clients using ATX
    software and assisted them with any issues and concerns they had
    ï‚§ Performed payroll weekly for various clients and verified that net pay and taxes withheld were the correct
    amount and that quarterly taxes were filed on time.
    EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
    PHI BETA LAMDA Aug 2013- Dec 2014
    ï‚§ Member of Phi Beta Lambda at Bloomsburg University.
    ï‚§ Packaged excess food at the cafeteria for women shelters throughout Columbia County.
    ï‚§ Participated in Relay for Life at Bloomsburg University and helped raise funds for multiple cancer
    survivors throughout Columbia County by selling baked goods.
    ACCOUNTING ASSOCIATION Oct 2013- May 2015
    ï‚§ Participated in VITA and prepared tax returns for the elderly and low income families.
    ï‚§ Attended various presentations held by different public accounting firms.

    AUD 5/27/16 74 &#%!! 7/13/2016 86!
    BEC 8/17/2016
    FAR 11/04/2015 73, 1/4/2016 75 (phew!)
    REG 2/26/2016 74. 4/2/2016 79

    #781303
    pfloyd
    Participant

    how do you create a link so you can see the pdf?

    AUD 5/27/16 74 &#%!! 7/13/2016 86!
    BEC 8/17/2016
    FAR 11/04/2015 73, 1/4/2016 75 (phew!)
    REG 2/26/2016 74. 4/2/2016 79

    #781304
    hasy
    Participant

    PHI BETA LAM(B)DA Aug 2013- Dec 2014

    Read over your resume at least TEN times before you send it in. If PDF confuses you, print it out and start marking it up. No spelling mistakes EVER…..

    Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved - Helen Keller

    -

    BEC 80 (10/23/15)
    FAR 72 (4/2/15); 83 (7/11/16)
    REG 52 (4/28/15)
    AUD (9/9/16)

    Roger + NINJA MCQ + WTB

    #781305
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Easiest way is to just paste the link. But if you don't want the whole link to show, you can also do:

    <a href="https://www.another71.com/cpa-exam-forum/">whatever you want to have the link say</a>

    If you do that exact thing, you get:
    whatever you want to have the link say

    Just change the link to the link you need – make sure you leave it inside quotation marks – and of course change the link to say what you want (“Link to my resume” or something like that).

    #781306
    pfloyd
    Participant

    file:///C:/Users/Jordan/Downloads/accounting%20resume%202%20(2).pdf

    AUD 5/27/16 74 &#%!! 7/13/2016 86!
    BEC 8/17/2016
    FAR 11/04/2015 73, 1/4/2016 75 (phew!)
    REG 2/26/2016 74. 4/2/2016 79

    #781307
    pfloyd
    Participant

    file:///C:/Users/Jordan/Downloads/accounting%20resume%202%20(2).pdf

    AUD 5/27/16 74 &#%!! 7/13/2016 86!
    BEC 8/17/2016
    FAR 11/04/2015 73, 1/4/2016 75 (phew!)
    REG 2/26/2016 74. 4/2/2016 79

    #781308
    PharmBoy
    Participant

    That won't work unless we have access to your C drive.

    #781309
    pfloyd
    Participant

    filesystem:chrome-extension://fdpohaocaechififmbbbbbknoalclacl/temporary/screencapture-file-C-Users-Jordan-Downloads-accounting-20resume-202-20-2-pdf-1465759841238.png

    AUD 5/27/16 74 &#%!! 7/13/2016 86!
    BEC 8/17/2016
    FAR 11/04/2015 73, 1/4/2016 75 (phew!)
    REG 2/26/2016 74. 4/2/2016 79

    #781310
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Oh, I see what you were asking…

    You'll need to upload your resume to somewhere online. With the .png version, the easiest way to upload it would be to use imgur.com – just click the upload images button, navigate to your downloads file, and upload the image, then you can share the imgur link with us.

    To do it a little more securely, you could use either hte .png or the .pdf and use something like Google Drive if you have a Google account or One Drive if you have a Microsoft account or some other service like that to upload the .pdf to, then use the sharing options. Here's a tutorial on using Google Drive to share a .pdf file: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arN-f356KU4

    #781311
    pfloyd
    Participant

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-H70yLEwcSHSW16SlhrOUMxeGs/view?usp=sharing

    AUD 5/27/16 74 &#%!! 7/13/2016 86!
    BEC 8/17/2016
    FAR 11/04/2015 73, 1/4/2016 75 (phew!)
    REG 2/26/2016 74. 4/2/2016 79

    #781312
    pfloyd
    Participant

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-H70yLEwcSHSW16SlhrOUMxeGs/view?usp=sharing

    AUD 5/27/16 74 &#%!! 7/13/2016 86!
    BEC 8/17/2016
    FAR 11/04/2015 73, 1/4/2016 75 (phew!)
    REG 2/26/2016 74. 4/2/2016 79

    #781313
    pfloyd
    Participant

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-H70yLEwcSHSW16SlhrOUMxeGs/view?usp=sharing

    AUD 5/27/16 74 &#%!! 7/13/2016 86!
    BEC 8/17/2016
    FAR 11/04/2015 73, 1/4/2016 75 (phew!)
    REG 2/26/2016 74. 4/2/2016 79

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