[jeff]

NINJA Question –

The Giveaway: There will be 5 winners randomly chosen.

Each winner will get access to the MCQ section of their choice (3 mo access).

Value of prize: $47

How to Enter: Post a “Career” tip on ONE of the following:

1) Interviewing / Pre-Employment social gatherings / etc

2) Internships

3) Public Accounting

4) General Career Tip

Simple as that 🙂

If a winner already has NINJA MCQ, they can substitute it for NINJA Notes or extend their current subscription.

Winners selected at 5pm EST Friday 10/25.

AUD - 79
BEC - 80
FAR - 76
REG - 92

Jeff Elliott, CPA (KS)
NINJA CPA | NINJA CMA | NINJA CPE | Another71

[Thor24]

Interviewing tip:

Most interviews will start with a seemingly simple question: “Tell me a little bit about yourself.” Answer this question by communicating all of your best qualities, skills, talents; everything you want the interviewer to know about you that you may not have the chance to talk about in the rest of the interview. Since this is such a common question, rehearse what you will say beforehand to make it a cohesive, concise statement of who you are and why they should hire you.

AUD - 84 (7/9/14)
FAR - 76 (10/7/14)
BEC - 77 (10/28/14)
REG - 2/3/15

Your mind is your only limit

[Anonymous]

1) Make sure the job is a good fit for both sides, you and the employer. There is nothing worse than settling for a job just because it is the first one available. Make sure you are going to fit well with the current employees and management.

[StephAV]

General Career Tip – Don't be afraid to go for jobs that you may not meet all of the qualifications for. The worst that can happen is they say no.

FAR - 7/13 - 72, 11/13- 74, 2/14- 82!!! Best score ever (for me)!!!
BEC - 1/14 - 75!!! Perfect score! First Pass! YAY!!!
AUD - 8/14 - 80!!!
REG - 5/14 - 72, 10/14 - 66, 1/15 - 78 - DONE FOREVER!!!
I did 5 of the UNA and CPAExcel classes to earn units.

[Anonymous]

General tip:

Don’t be reticent about tooting your own horn.You need to be your own best advocate. Let it be known when you have a victory or accomplishment.

[Anonymous]

Career Tip

2.) Don't be too naive when staff and seniors “prepare” you for what work life balance will actually be when you start full time.

[Lillian]

One career tip is to be able to

adapt to changes within the

workplace and in life in general.

Adapting to your environment

opens the door to learn more

through what you will experience

during the process.

On my way to a CPA

[golfball7773]

General: Be willing to assist and help others who are struggling with their workload. Makes you look like a great team player

AUD - NINJA in Training
BEC - 86
FAR - NINJA in Training
REG - NINJA in Training

AUD - 71, 73

BEC - 74, 86

REG - 77*

FAR - 57

*expired

(I have been trying to become a CPA since 2013). only one test down.......

FAR: 63, 55, 62
REG: 65, 77*
AUD: Fail, 64, 71
BEC: 72, 74, 81

*expired

[jettt20]

#4 Be social! Always go to those events you want to bail on at the last minute. That's where I end up networking the most and making long term connections with others in the same field. Particularly industry specific events, but actually I've met more at random happy hours through mutual friends.

FAR - 43, 59
AUD - 55, 71, 72, 85 (exp)
REG - 53, 65
BEC - 66, 60, 69, 71, 76

[univegabw]

Take any internship you can get that won't cause you to lose your mind. I took a simple minor league baseball internship and it ended up being my full blown access to everything in QuickBooks and I learned so many different aspects of a small business accounting requirements and just ended up getting so much exposure to things I may not have. It also included life events that I can reflect on. I saw at the time the world series ring and actually got to hold it because we were presenting it to a teammate on the opposing ball clubs team that was on the team the previous year.

Just worth getting different exposure, but also doing things you may not have done otherwise.

A- 53, 55
B- Passed!
F- Not Yet Taken
R- 1/17/2015

[Anonymous]

#4) No matter what position you're in / task you're given, don't half ass things. Don't think you're too good for certain tasks. Attention to detail goes a long way.

[JMOR]

General: always pay attention to the people that have worked their for a while, they may have a lot of tips and experience to share with you.

REG - 86
FAR - 74,
BEC - 72,
AUD -73,

[Y4nk]

Interview Tip:

Always research the company you are interviewing for! Showing a general knowledge for the company goes a long way with the interviewers.

[OMGJUSTINBIEBER]

General Tip – when assigned a task and you have no clue on how to do it, look back at history to see how it done was before

[MrsBklovn]

#1 Interview Tip – Use the resources available to you. If you are aware of the people you will be interviewing with look them up on linkedin to see their career history if any, interests, and what schools they went to. This will help create conversation and allow you to bond with the interviewer on things other than the position. Sometimes a perfect fit personality wise to a position is better than smarts.

#4 General – Be open minded about your career. Try new things, help on new projects, assist with tackling a deadline, you never know what topic might catch your interest.

Hoping 2015 is better...- Wiley MCQs; Ninja Notes; Flashcards; Audio; Becker Live Review
REG- 2/2014 82
AUD- 10/2014 72, 1/2015 73, 4/2015 84!
BEC- 7/2014 70, 11/2014 70 (this must be a joke) 8/2015 77!
FAR- 7/2015 76!

It's only impossible until it's done.~ Nelson Mandela

The journey was long and hard but in the end it ALL paid off.!

[Anonymous]

Interviewing/networking: most of the time people remember to give you their business card. sometimes they won't. this doesn't mean they don't want to, giving out their business card is part of the reason they're at the event in the first place, it just means they forgot. so don't leave without reminding them. it really sucks when you talk to a guy for 20 minutes and feel like you made a valuable connection and then can't send a followup email or you forgot his name and feel incredibly awkward next time you see him or what have you.

[Author]

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