New regulation by the government that was prompted by the recent controversies in the business world, that stretched as far as Wall Street are boosting the needs for accounting jobs. The need to properly document and maintain accurate records is of utmost importance for compliance with the many new laws regarding financial statements and records that had to be done in a very detailed manner. Even the stock market was hit by the reforms which had companies required to store and keep financial records for as long as 5 years but the time period varies according to the area of business.
The boom is also due to the need for proper money management and monitoring which is the job of accountants as well as interpreting these data for future business strategies. The realm of business will never be the same again for as money gets tougher to get by, more stringent monitoring systems are being put in place. Good for the many accountants who have lost jobs, they have fall back careers to choose from that may just bring them through this recession.
Our fears have been realized and jobs are being lost and not created(except for the Federal Government which claims would be creating jobs), the rest the thousands of job hunters who cannot get a job are left out on a limb. Try to use the full spectrum of job searching, online, social networks, job hunt networks and don;t forget the traditional go out an get it approach.
Jobs are out there, just that you cannot be to picky due to the scarcity, for one opening has several hundred available applicants. Make yourself stand out from the rest and use your failures as motivating factor. Update your resume and take out all add-on’s(entries that have been quite blown up), so you get an honest resume they can trust. Some of these firms really do check ups so when they do, you get the facts nothing more nothing less. You might also want to change the photo(you might still have the one straight from graduation), they might be small changes but they make big changes.