CAREER FAIR LEADS TO INTERNSHIPS
A range of firms and companies recruit at the Adkerson School of Accountancy each year , knowing they will find highly educated students who are prepared for the professional environment . The annual ASAC Career Fair is a primary venue where representatives meet our students and decide whom to interview not only for employment but also for internships .
The 2016 Career Fair – sponsored by ASAC , the MSU Career Center and Beta Alpha Psi – was held August 31 at The Mill Conference Center in Starkville . It was well attended , with more than 167 students present and 28 firms and companies represented . One result was that 2016 ’ s numbers of employers and interns has been significantly higher than ever before , with 22 firms and organizations hiring 65 ASAC students . Internships allow our students to try out a particular firm or field of accounting while providing professional experience that gives them an edge when beginning their careers . It is not uncommon for full-time offers to be extended to them upon completion of their internships .
The following firms have hired ASAC interns for the spring and summer of 2017 :
BKD Brenda Nicols-Freeno , CPA Carr , Riggs & Ingram CBIZ MHM Deloitte Dixon Hughes Goodman Ernst & Young FedEx
Georgia-Pacific Haddox Reid Eubank Betts HORNE International Paper Jackson State University KPMG Matthews Cutrer & Lindsay MSU Poultry Science Department
PACCAR PwC Reynolds , Bone & Griesbeck T . E . Lott & Company Warren Averett Watkins , Ward and Stafford offer counsel on what might be the best fit . Dr . Alan Stancill helped him prepare for his Southwest interview , reviewing financials and identifying questions to ask . Preparation was vital – the company had some 25,000 applicants in 2016 and the previous year had hired 311 interns .
Both of these ambitious
Hannah Skurzewski students will ultimately have three internships under their belts . Skurzewski has accepted another internship with Georgia-Pacific for next summer in Lexington , KY . Taylor interned with Senator Roger
Wicker during his sophomore year . His tasks ranged from giving Capitol tours to constituents to gathering the Senator ’ s briefing materials , but he was also able to sit in on meetings that interested him and gained new perspective on laws that govern accounting .
“ One of the senior advisors on staff had helped draft the Sarbanes-Oxley Act . The semester before , I had been reading about it in class , and now I was talking to the people who had written it !” he shares , noting that all his internships will give him insight in determining a career path and the type of location and atmosphere he prefers .
Skurzewski ’ s internships have affirmed her choice of the accounting profession and redoubled her commitment to her studies .
“ They were very different types of work , but both have helped me to know it ’ s all worth it !”
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