Fictional Accountant - Recruits Junior
Apr 23rd 2013 | 10:03 am
#16
limey party pooper
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Re: Fictional Accountant - Recruits Junior
I ploughed through all that drivel when all you wanted to know was where to go for a drink and meet accountants?
Apr 23rd 2013 | 10:23 am
#17
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From: White Rock BC
Re: Fictional Accountant - Recruits Junior
I’d kind of hoped they weren’t the full on self-promoters that are all too common in the UK (especially in finance and London) these days.
How disappointing #2.
I’d kind of hoped they were social creatures like the Yanks, only without the stomp on your neck during the day attitude.
I’d kind of hoped they were social creatures like the Yanks, only without the stomp on your neck during the day attitude.
I think a recce trip would be well worth my time to try and suss out these moose-fuddling individuals.
Apr 23rd 2013 | 2:48 pm
#19
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From: SW Ontario
Re: Fictional Accountant - Recruits Junior
Are there 'networking events' or some kind of convention or similar that you could attend?
Have a look through this google search - I'm sure there is something that you could go along to on your recce.
Edited - try this instead: http://www.cba.ca/en/component/conte...-opportunities
Thought this article was quite interesting for ideas.
Have a look through this google search - I'm sure there is something that you could go along to on your recce.
Edited - try this instead: http://www.cba.ca/en/component/conte...-opportunities
Thought this article was quite interesting for ideas.
Last edited by Siouxie; Apr 23rd 2013 at 2:53 pm.
Apr 25th 2013 | 2:03 am
#23
Yorkshire meets Vegas
Joined: Jul 2004
Posts: 1,354
From: T. ON (so there!)
Re: Fictional Accountant - Recruits Junior
Imagine you’re a banker, or some other finance type who happens to work in the Capital city in your county or province. Your job title is Assistant Vice President of Retail Business Banking (or something equally impressive). The truth is, though, you’re a rank and file accountant.?
In answer to your question, your best opportunity to success is to network with such types on linked in, and ask them if they'd meet you for a coffee for an informational interview. This was what I did when I was looking to get my latest gig a couple of years ago.
I work in Advertising, and even working in this industry, there's nowhere near the level of afterwork drinking that there was in the UK. As already mentioned, most people commute, and there isn't really the socialising downtown that you find elsewhere.
Apr 25th 2013 | 2:09 am
#24
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Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 2,667
From: Was Calgary back in Edmonton again !!
Re: Fictional Accountant - Recruits Junior
Imagine you’re a banker, or some other finance type who happens to work in the Capital city in your county or province. Your job title is Assistant Vice President of Retail Business Banking (or something equally impressive). The truth is, though, you’re a rank and file accountant.
You’ve spent all day in the office, pretending you have a clue what the hell is going on and mindlessly typing numbers you don’t understand into an excel spread sheet you couldn’t care less about. You think you understand it all, but you don’t really. You’ve been using the latest buzzwords you read in PoshFinanceTwit magazine in a meeting you attended because you hoped it made you sound clever (it didn’t). But you’ve been lucky today. The ‘Head of Something You Don’t Understand’ acknowledged you exist when you bumped into him at the water cooler. Better still, the fit bird who works in Consumer Lending Analytics (who knows as little about what she does as you do) smiled at you (it’s only because you’d forgotten to do up your flies after you’d been ‘pee pee’ and she noticed). But better still, you’ve been promoted to VP of Retail Business Banking. The trouble is, now you need someone to do all the stuff you didn’t understand so that can do even less work while looking up expensive watches on the internet (because clearly a man in your position needs a chronometer the size of a dinner plate)
Where do you go to unwind, celebrate and have a drink after such a good day? Unfortunately you don’t have a wife, or even a steady girlfriend, because you a vainglorious plop-wipe with all the redeeming personal qualities of an intimate fungal infection. Obviously you’ll need to go to a bar where you can brag about how good you are to a receptive listener. Of course, you’ve also got to consider recruiting your replacement. He’ll have very big shoes to fill. And it will be a he. There’s no sense appointing a fitty to be your direct report. The company’s HR policy won’t allow you to get a sniff in so it would be a waste of time. Probably best to employ someone you get along with. He’ll talk about sports and agree with you as to who the best player in the league is. He’ll also nod agreeably about how, if you hadn’t been such a finance whizz, you’d have been a pro footballer. In fact, this is the person you need to talk about your day with tonight. You can celebrate and recruit all at the same time.
But where do you go for this drink? If you work in Canary wharf in London you’d go to Reuters Plaza in Canary Wharf. But you’re not in London, you’re in Canada. In fact you’re in any one of the cities below:
Vancouver
Calgary
Edmonton
Winnipeg
Toronto,
Mississauga
Halifax
Montreal
Where does my ‘fictional’ Accountant go to brag about his brilliant day and find his heir apparent?
You’ve spent all day in the office, pretending you have a clue what the hell is going on and mindlessly typing numbers you don’t understand into an excel spread sheet you couldn’t care less about. You think you understand it all, but you don’t really. You’ve been using the latest buzzwords you read in PoshFinanceTwit magazine in a meeting you attended because you hoped it made you sound clever (it didn’t). But you’ve been lucky today. The ‘Head of Something You Don’t Understand’ acknowledged you exist when you bumped into him at the water cooler. Better still, the fit bird who works in Consumer Lending Analytics (who knows as little about what she does as you do) smiled at you (it’s only because you’d forgotten to do up your flies after you’d been ‘pee pee’ and she noticed). But better still, you’ve been promoted to VP of Retail Business Banking. The trouble is, now you need someone to do all the stuff you didn’t understand so that can do even less work while looking up expensive watches on the internet (because clearly a man in your position needs a chronometer the size of a dinner plate)
Where do you go to unwind, celebrate and have a drink after such a good day? Unfortunately you don’t have a wife, or even a steady girlfriend, because you a vainglorious plop-wipe with all the redeeming personal qualities of an intimate fungal infection. Obviously you’ll need to go to a bar where you can brag about how good you are to a receptive listener. Of course, you’ve also got to consider recruiting your replacement. He’ll have very big shoes to fill. And it will be a he. There’s no sense appointing a fitty to be your direct report. The company’s HR policy won’t allow you to get a sniff in so it would be a waste of time. Probably best to employ someone you get along with. He’ll talk about sports and agree with you as to who the best player in the league is. He’ll also nod agreeably about how, if you hadn’t been such a finance whizz, you’d have been a pro footballer. In fact, this is the person you need to talk about your day with tonight. You can celebrate and recruit all at the same time.
But where do you go for this drink? If you work in Canary wharf in London you’d go to Reuters Plaza in Canary Wharf. But you’re not in London, you’re in Canada. In fact you’re in any one of the cities below:
Vancouver
Calgary
Edmonton
Winnipeg
Toronto,
Mississauga
Halifax
Montreal
Where does my ‘fictional’ Accountant go to brag about his brilliant day and find his heir apparent?
Apr 25th 2013 | 4:54 am
#27
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Joined: Jun 2012
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From: Vancouver, BC
Re: Fictional Accountant - Recruits Junior
Try meetup and see where they... meet up.
