How do you answer - why do you want to leave public accounting for a financial analyst role? Besides the obvious answers of better worklife pay etc.

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It's a great learning opportunity

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😂 those words give me ptsd lol

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It aligns more closely with your career goals. Staying in public further will pigeonhole you into public only and it’s preventing you from what you want to do. You are particularly interested in xyz that your current employer does not offer.

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Thank you!

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Are you in audit? You can talk about your testing of trend analysis controls/fluxes and how you’ve developed those skills and have experience in various ways of doing/documenting

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Thank you!

I wouldn’t mention better work life.

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Or pay

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