been in industry (small companies) for 5 years with an active CPA. Wanted to get in SEC reporting roles but almost every company requires 2-year public accounting exp. Now applying for public accounting firms entry level positions but almost all firms HR asked if I had ever worked in firms. Got rejection emails from firms all the time. Is this a dead lock? firms exp matters much more than a CPA license?

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Entry level in public accounting isn’t where you should enter. Look for an experienced senior role and network with people at that company.

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Try some middle size cpa firm if you really want the public accounting experience. I have some friends who have many year private industry experience and still get in as a Senior, not the entry level.

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Firms are looking for breathing humans.

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You are non-traditional path. You are gonna have to approach it differently. You need to network with partners at firms to go to a firm. Or you could network with companies to get an SEC role.

These are both very viable paths for your background (SEC role of Sr at firm). You are just gonna have to work a little harder to land the job. Applying blindly without networking is not gonna be fruitful.

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Ya. We've hired industry folk regularly. If you can project manage and learn quickly and just generally know GAAP, I can teach you GAAS pretty quickly.

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shoot me a message! I work for a midsize firm and we hire people from industry fairly often

Please send me a message

If interested in PWC, send me a DM. Your experience in industry likely would line you up to a senior associate role.

I went to a top university for my MAcc to pivot 10 years into my career, the university placed me into the B4. I suggest doing that if you can.

Pm me I went the non traditional route to get into public accounting had industry experience and now I’m in audit. Can try and help you out if you’re just looking for the experience

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