I love my team and my direct manager is a genuinely good human, but the company’s upper management is a total disaster. I feel a huge sense of guilt leaving my colleagues behind to drown in the workload I’d be leaving them with. My manager actually sat me down and asked me to stay for the team until after the next audit cycle. At what point do you have to be selfish and realize that your mental health is more important than your team’s workload?

If I have 6+ months of expenses in investments in a brokerage account, do I need an emergency fund? Totally clear on the purpose of an emergency fund, but a brokerage account seems pretty liquid and the market would need to crash to a significant level to a point where I could no longer rely on this to liquidate and live off of if needed. Is it crazy to put my emergency fund to work by buying VOO with plan for a long time hold?

FAR, what a pain..that’s all

Can anyone refer me to an onsite role in uk,australia,canada or germany. I am a senior java developer with 6 plus years of experience

What’s your sign? 🔮

Should people be fired for lack of people skills?

My mentors (partner & senior) have scheduled a feedback meeting with me on Wednesday. It’s not just me, they’re scheduling meetings with everyone so I’m probably keeping my job. Thing is, I’ve been incredibly frustrated with the firm - I’m buried in work and billing like crazy, but there’s zero transparency on financials and zero communication on bonuses (...)

Anyone work in tech and blockchain? What exactly do you do?

Serious question: what was biglaw like back in the 90s? Did ya'll have big cellphones and catered lunches? How is it different for associates back then versus now?

Anyone have a recommendation for a research firm that specializes in teen recruitment for focus groups? Don’t need full service offering, just the recruit. Appreciate any help.

Who will I see on today’s AICP St. Patrick’s Day Virtual Mixer?? If you didn’t rsvp yet head over to their Instagram page to find the post and do so. Hope to see your wonderful faces later! Happy St. Patty’s! 🍀

Account managers..Do your TCV targets include everything sold at your named accounts by other sales people or only contracts sold directly by you

How much is variable bonus at c11 level?

ISO: experienced recruiter for a career consultation. Laid off a few times. Trying to make sure the next job sticks. I’ll compensate for your time!

Been hearing a lot of discussion about AI playing a role in the future of talent acquisition. Anyone else feeling concerned that this can add more biases when it comes to hiring?

Has anyone had problems getting their Hubspot blog to rank? I’ve tried everything- no blatant robots.txt blockages and we’ve been consistently blogging for over a year. Seems to be the issue with only pages on Hubspot and not when we post pages to their primary domains on Wordpress!

Anyone had good multiple offers and had one the hiring managers pressure you into taking the offer after asking for additional time to think about it?

Has anyone with a CPA from IT Audit roles been able to make their way into a financial consulting role without referrals/MBA?

I’m not from an English speaking country but I am watching a tv show and businessmen walk into a room and instead of greeting eachother, everyone says each person’s first name in lieu of hi, however in my experience working in the states, I haven’t seen anyone do this, it’s always hi or good afternoon or some other greeting first THEN they say their first name. is it also appropriate to omit the greeting?

Possible to pass BEC in two weeks?

I’m in my 2nd year in audit. I want to pivot into management consulting within a big 4 or MBB. Has anyone seen someone make this lateral movement? I’m not sure how feasible that is and what steps to take. I’m also down to discuss further with whoever is comfortable in connecting.

Anyone switch from core tax to either advisory or an HR/IFS (internal firm services) role?

What questions should you ask during a phone screening with a recruiter?

Anyone gone from PA to CBRE ? Do you like it ?

Thinking about enrolling into a JD program , I’m 26, CPA, in a lcol area, at at small firm. What is to be expected at a school level and bar level?

This is the 2nd company that rejected me after the 2nd round of interviews. Latest one left a bitter taste as I felt I was doing good during the interview process and felt I was really a good fit. On to the next one.

Pointers for putting in your two weeks (setting up a meeting, navigating the discussion, etc)? How do you go about it in the best way?

Seriously.

What is the fair range of S1 Tax big4 salary?

Location : Chicago, IL

I got an offer 78K, and just got a new one from another firm. (80K)

I am trying to negotiate the salary to 82K as my target...

Am I asking too much?

How hard is it to get into an investment bank for risk? Doing market risk related work (FRM)? And what kind of salary would you be looking at from entry to associate (senior) level ?

Do you write cover letters? I usually write them but it feels like a waste of time.

For those that work at big4, does maternity leave benefit only kick in if you’ve worked for the firm for at least a year? Or does it apply immediately?

Just signed an offer, putting my two weeks in tomorrow. Anyone have tips in making some “I’m leaving” conversations less...awkward?

How do you develop salary expectations? Any sources you use to help figure out what the market is like?

take job with long commute or stay at b4?

Is it possible to switch path from tax associate to data analysis?

Should you discuss salary range with an internal company recruiter prior to setting up an interview? With external recruiters it’s pretty easy to talk about the expected range. I am trying to avoid wasting all of our time if i get to the last interview and they are expecting a salary that is too low for me.