What To Do During recruitment?

Not surprisingly, most interns are hired during accounting recruitment events.
So you really have to go to those career fairs.

I will tell you some insight on what exactly recruiters like to see during the recruitment.

First of all your appearance.
Go to Man's Warehouse and buy a nice $500 dollar dark suite, dark blue tie, and s white or blue shirt. Make sure you look professional, that includes your hair, handshake, smiles, everything. If you don't wear suite, you don't look professional... remember that.

Before talking to the recruiter, make sure you know if you are interested in a full time position or an internship. Don't just say, I am interested in both. But it is always better to say that you are interested in an internship unless you already had an internship with them because 90% of their new hires went through an internship program with the very same company. So you do the math.

Also, absolutely make sure which division you want to work for. Are you interested in Audit, Tax or transfer pricing or whatever. Don't just say that your interested both in Audit and Tax or that you are interested in Audit but would also consider Tax. Because this means that you don't know what you want from your career and that you are not goal oriented.

Basically make sure which location you are applying for and for what time (summer/winter). It is always better to check what they actually are offering. Because Delloite might be hiring only two Audit interns for their Chicago location from your school.
And you say that you want to go for Tax, or that you want to work in New York... You will not get anything.

So basically do the research, be prepared and good luck.
There are more beneficial posts, so keep on reading.

What are Big Four Companies looking for in Accounting Interns

I haven't written for a while but this is the most updated post with up to date information what qualities Big Four Companies are looking for when hiring interns.

Most Important is Of course GPA
And I am not talking about your overall GPA but your Accounting GPA. Your Accounting GPA has to be high. Of course how it should be depends on the University which you attend.
But most of the Big Four companies won't even look at your resume if you don't have above 3.4

Also important is the Leadership Skills.
Do you hold any officer positions in any student run organizations, if not, then you should.
Join Accounting organizations of your school, stay after organizational meetings and talk to the president of the organization or/and the adviser and ask them if you can become an officer. This will look really good on your resume.

Previous Work/Internship experience.
Of course if you interned with some really good company, then even if you don't have a high GPA, you might still get the internship. But if you worked as an accounting clerk for a small company, it is not as important as your resume. Still having some experience will look good on your resume.

Community involvement - is surprisingly also important.
Do some volunteering and make sure your bring that during recruitment events or in an actual interview.

How to get an Accounting Internship

In this blog, I will provide you with step by step instructions that will help you in your internship search.
First of all you should start by reading this post Accounting Internship and you can navigate from there.

Accounting Internships in Michigan

Accounting Internship in Michigan

I will just simply list accounting companies in Michigan.

Delloite - offices are listed below
Ann Arbor, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Lansing, Midland
PWC
Detroit, Grand Rapids
Ernst & Young
Detroit, Grand Rapids, Troy
KPMG
Detroit

Accounting internships in Michigan other then the Big Four

Grant Thornton
Detroit
B D O S e i d m a n
Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Troy
C r o w e H o r w a r t h
It has offices all over the state.
U H Y
South field, Sterling Heights
V i r c h o v K r a u s e & Co.
S o u t h f i e l d
The R e h m a n n Group
It also has offices all over for you to search Accounting Internships in Michigan
D o e r e n M a y h e w
Troy
Y e o & Y e o
Locations are all over the Michigan.

This is the list of accounting companies in Michigan. Some of them may not be hiring any interns at this point, but most of the are I believe.
If you know more accounting companies in Michigan, please let me know.

I hope it helps you in your search for "accounting internships in Michigan"

Internships in Accounting

Internships in Accounting

There is basically two ways you can go,
Audit or Tax.

If you are working for the big four then you are going to stay in that department. And if you get a job with in Audit, then you most likely will become and Auditor.

Therefore, before getting internships in accounting, you should ask yourself - Do I want to be an accountant for the upcoming 5 or more years. If the question is yes then your best shot is to get internships in accounting with the Big Four or other big companies (scroll down for the full list).

But the answer is no, and you just want to get internships in accounting and jobs in accounting so that you can get an entry job and you main wish is to move to other fields. Then, you should really look for a job at your local area. Pick out the big companies in which you want to work, they most like have internships in accounting area. If you are working for big company it is always a good idea to go for audit since it is the kind of job where you will learn how to do everything.

In a year or so, you can probably move to some other department, like finance department.

Good luck on your internships in accounting.

Paid Accounting Internships

Paid Accounting Internships
I have good news for accounting majors,
But you probably already know this. Well basically speaking most of accounting internships are paid.

So you don't have to go around searching for paid accounting internships, just search for any internship.

Big Four companies pay somewhere between $21-25 per hour, so that is awesome.
And for other companies it really varies, so you should expect to get paid above $10, but most like $15.

For more information just read more in this blog, and don't search for paid accounting internships anymore

Summer Accounting Internships

Summer Accounting Internships

Big Four accounting companies have summer leadership programs.
It usually last for a week or two, and then most likely you will get an internship with them the following year.

I know that D e l l o i t e starts to recruit for their summer leadership programs in the winter semester. I do not what the other companies policies are but most likely they will recruit during winter semester as well.

I know that big four usually does not provide summer accounting internships, it is usually done in the fall or winter semester. To make things short if you are looking for a summer accounting internships with the big four then you are late. You might have a good luck on doing it next fall or winter.

However, many other accounting companies are still recruiting students for summer accounting internships. Go check out the article labeled other accounting companies for the complete list of big accounting companies that should help you in finding your summer accounting internship.