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Old Oct 26th 2007, 10:47 am
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Hi all,

Its been a year, i have finished my Masters degree in Accounting. But i have been unable to get a satisfying job. Been working in Clerical or Admin rolls, which is really a child play.

Can someone please guide.
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Old Oct 26th 2007, 10:49 am
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Hi all,

Its been a year, i have finished my Masters degree in Accounting. But i have been unable to get a satisfying job. Been working in Clerical or Admin rolls, which is really a child play.

Can someone please guide.

Hi, welcome to BE

Try asking here: http://britishexpats.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=87

It's where the accountants hang out
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Originally Posted by gaur
Hi all,

Its been a year, i have finished my Masters degree in Accounting. But i have been unable to get a satisfying job. Been working in Clerical or Admin rolls, which is really a child play.

Can someone please guide.
Gee, nice to know all us admin types do "child's play" all day while you important people do your accounting.
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Gee, nice to know all us admin types do "child's play" all day while you important people do your accounting.
Took the words out of my mouth there
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Originally Posted by gaur
Hi all,

Its been a year, i have finished my Masters degree in Accounting. But i have been unable to get a satisfying job. Been working in Clerical or Admin rolls, which is really a child play.

Can someone please guide.

Childs play? That sounded a touch patronising to be honest, all jobs are important no matter what they are.
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Old Oct 26th 2007, 12:34 pm
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Took the words out of my mouth there
I'd tell him where to go (he's looking for guidance after all) but don't want to get in anyone's bad books.
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I don't think their first language is English, so I just took it as their interpretation of 'boring' for them. (We all know what these online language convertors are like )
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Childs play? That sounded a touch patronising to be honest, all jobs are important no matter what they are.
even t*rd inspector ?
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I don't think their first language is English, so I just took it as their interpretation of 'boring' for them. (We all know what these online language convertors are like )
I just typed "boring" into my online language converter and came up with "accountancy"
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Could also explain why the job search isn't going too well.

all jobs are important no matter what they are.
There is a well known occasion from someone being taken around NASA prior to 1969 (can't remember who it was, but may well have been the President of the time) and asking everyone what they did etc. He asked that of the chap sweeping the floors and was given the answer "I'm helping get a man on the moon".

Its very true - every single individual throughout an organisation is there to help that organisation achieve its strategic goal.

Please don't tar every beancounter with the same brush, some of us are almost human
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Could also explain why the job search isn't going too well.



There is a well known occasion from someone being taken around NASA prior to 1969 (can't remember who it was, but may well have been the President of the time) and asking everyone what they did etc. He asked that of the chap sweeping the floors and was given the answer "I'm helping get a man on the moon".

Its very true - every single individual throughout an organisation is there to help that organisation achieve its strategic goal.

Please don't tar every beancounter with the same brush, some of us are almost human

everyone knows man never went to the moon in 69 , was he sweeping the
" stage set " ?

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It was pre '69 so he still had those rose tinted glasses on

Mind you, it could have happened a couple of years ago if they're still trying!
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Originally Posted by gaur
Hi all,

Its been a year, i have finished my Masters degree in Accounting. But i have been unable to get a satisfying job. Been working in Clerical or Admin rolls, which is really a child play.

Can someone please guide.
You can't be taught how to get a satisfying job. Just do it.

If your looking for a decent role the question is going to be why has no one else snapped you up in the last 12 months?
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Originally Posted by Wendy
I don't think their first language is English, so I just took it as their interpretation of 'boring' for them. (We all know what these online language convertors are like )
I remember driving across Madrid with a colleague who spoke Spanish, English, French and Portuguese. His English was fluent. I can't attest to his French and Portuguese as I don't speak the languages although I had been present when he was on the phone chatting away.

He turned to me and told me he was envious of my command of English (not bad for somebody from Birkenhead) to which I laughed as obviously I would love to be able to speak 4 languages.

He pointed out that in some conversations he thought a bunch of Brits were referring to this when actually it was that. In his view Brits were experts at communicating using the nuances of spoken language and body language to communicate in a form of code.

The point I'm making is that we do get visitors to the site whose native language is not English and sometimes they may phrase something in a way we find peculiar.

Personally, I would like to thank them for learning English as it saves me having to learn their language(s).

To the OP I'm not an accountant but I gather there are lots of jobs around so I suggest you contact http://www.cpaaustralia.com.au/cps/r...xsl/index.html
and see what they suggest.
They have offices here and there http://www.cpaaustralia.com.au/cps/r...9_ENA_HTML.htm

Ian
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I remember driving across Madrid with a colleague who spoke Spanish, English, French and Portuguese. His English was fluent. I can't attest to his French and Portuguese as I don't speak the languages although I had been present when he was on the phone chatting away.

He turned to me and told me he was envious of my command of English (not bad for somebody from Birkenhead) to which I laughed as obviously I would love to be able to speak 4 languages.

He pointed out that in some conversations he thought a bunch of Brits were referring to this when actually it was that. In his view Brits were experts at communicating using the nuances of spoken language and body language to communicate in a form of code.

The point I'm making is that we do get visitors to the site whose native language is not English and sometimes they may phrase something in a way we find peculiar.

Personally, I would like to thank them for learning English as it saves me having to learn their language(s).

To the OP I'm not an accountant but I gather there are lots of jobs around so I suggest you contact http://www.cpaaustralia.com.au/cps/r...xsl/index.html
and see what they suggest.
They have offices here and there http://www.cpaaustralia.com.au/cps/r...9_ENA_HTML.htm

Ian
Well said Ian !
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