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Hi fishes,
I have just now applied in Grant Thorntonn for the role of Analyst - Fin Ops - US Operations- NB.
I am a 2020 B. Com (Tax and Finance) Graduate with 8.77 CGPA. Also passed ACCA Financial Management and Taxation UK Skills level exams.
Can someone refer me for the same?
Grant Thornton
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I have some good ex colleagues who moved over there and also looked up on LinkedIn and see lots of seemingly smart and accomplished people in their D&A team in the UK.
I'll ask my ex colleagues too, but wanted to see if people here have any opinion or information on this too.
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I'm the same way. The only thing that helps every time I'm back in the job search mode is doing interviews. Say yes to interviews for jobs that you aren't all that excited about just to get your story smoothened out
As an interviewer, I don’t hold this against the candidate. An interview is just a snapshot and not a true reflection of a person’s performance or abilities. Also I have met plenty of people in one particular demographic that come across very confident but then can’t do the job so I’d prefer a nervous candidate any day
I wonder what demographic?
As an interviewer, it depends on 1) the level of the role I'm hiring for and 2) how extremely it manifests.
The more senior the role, the less leeway you'll get for nerves, because you're likely to be put in high-pressure client-facing environments with little to no notice and expected to come over as calm and confident.
If you stumble over a couple of words, or have to go back on yourself to explain something, or just seem a bit fidgety, it's not a huge deal and I would expect a little of that from baseline nerves. However, if your responses are so incoherent I literally can't figure out what you're trying to tell me, that's going to be a problem.
I echo what others have said about practise. Get friends or colleagues to practise interview questions with you - you could even have a group of you doing interview swaps the same way you might do case practise together. Prepare answers to common interview questions - there are tons of resources on this out there and this doesn't require anyone else's input, so there's no excuse for not having a ready answer for something like "talk me through your CV" or "tell me about a time you've dealt with a difficult client" etc. It's usually pretty easy to tell whether someone's just nervous or completely underprepared, so do yourself a favour and make sure it's just nerves!