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Hi Everyone,
Wish everyone has a great 2016, promotion and good health. I need some career advices about what kind of job titles I should look for. Here is my background, I have B.S degree in Statistics in 2012, but I couldn’t find any job related to Statistics ( Probably I don’t have much experience on resume and my English is not so well ). And my friends told me accounting is easier to find a job, so I start taking accounting classes, and got an accounting assistant job in a small CPA firm in 2013, but the paid is very low. So I got a junior staff accountant position in a small size company ( around 25 M annual revenue ) in 2014. My job responsibility is for AR, AP, bank reconciliation and create some simple cost reports, but our accounting department doesn’t have much knowledge about accounting, example: we do not have Allowance for Doubtful Accounts (we bad debt it whenever we want), we do not have inventory( We put it as expense it when we purchase), and we do not have depreciation(Our CPA helps us calculate in the end of each year) Etc. I am feeling I just go to work only for the small paycheck, but I really want to learn more accounting knowledge while working and move up in my career, So I am taking CMA now, I just passed the part 1 on Jan 2016, and planning to take the part 2 on Jun (I want to take the CPA exam, but I still need few more accounting classes. And I can’t wait. I might want to take more accounting classes and take the CPA after I finished the CMA). I am looking for a cost accountant position, but there isn’t a lot of cost accountant positions on the market ,and the cost accountant usually requires 3-5 years of cost accounting experience ( I live in the Bay area). My question is what kind of job titles should I look for in order to help me get a cost accountant position in the future. Should I stay in my current company or look for some other company so I can gain more accounting knowledge while working? But it is kind of hard to get a accounting position in a Mid-size company with my current resume. I do not want to look for other similar size company, because I am afraid of they do not have proper accounting procedure either and it just makes my resume looks bad as a job hopper. Sorry it is kind of long, but thanks in advance for your input.
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