I have three years tax experience at a small firm and I am interested in getting audit experience. A recruiter I spoke with suggested a situation where I work tax during tax season, and nfp audits in the summer before tax extension deadlines. Would this reduce my upward mobility, or increase it?

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I think ultimately it would decrease mobility unless you stayed with a small firm. Even smaller regional firms are going to focus on a single line of business. My concern for you would be that you've diluted your experience and after a few years you would be behind your peers in a specific area and that could cost you a level. At smaller firms, it's common to spread out over more areas so that might be ok if that's your goal. At the end of the day, you need to find something to get good at and you can't be good at everything.

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My struggle at the moment is that I have no idea what the best option would be for specialization. It seems hard enough to get my foot in the door at a larger firm as it is, much less not make a mistake in choosing the wrong thing to pigeon hole myself into until I'm 60

From an auditor, the nfp audit experience you get will not be the same as a regular private/public audit experience. While you are doing mostly the same thing, I personally disliked working on nfp clients.

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What were your reasons for not liking it?

What kind of tax do you do? If you have a chance to get into corporate tax, you will likely to work on tax provision audits which you will get exposed to audits from an income tax perspective.

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