Off the Ledger
Your days as a college student are almost numbered. The working world is calling. As you get ready to embark on your career, you have to be thinking, “What am I going to do when I graduate?” “Is a job in public accounting right for me?”
Where do you want to go?
You have so many options. Big firm or small? How do you decide? Where can you go to get the real, honest look at a career in public accounting? What is it REALLY like to be an intern? What will my life be like as a staff accountant?
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At Porter Keadle Moore, LLP (PKM) we’re here to help. We’ve created this blog site just for you! To help you find answers to these and other questions about working in a public accounting firm. Real interns and brand new staff accountants chronicle their experiences with our firm. Read what they have to say. Ask questions, share your opinions and we’ll respond.
An Accountant and a Model Too?
Jenna Bianchi - Audit Senior
‘Would you like to be a model, a PKM model that is?’ I thought I would never in my life hear those words. That is until PKM decided to have a photo shoot for our recruiting brochure. A few weeks after hearing those words I found myself at a photography studio with multiple outfit changes in hand ready to smile for the camera. Needless to say, I was a bit apprehensive about the whole situation.
The recruiting brochure focuses on capturing the transition of a college student into the work force. At the end of the day, I think that our group of models not only captured that transition, but did it the PKM way. There were eight of us that participated in the photo shoot - each unsure as to what was about to happen. There were two group pictures and five individual shots taken. Early on in the day everyone seemed a bit tense and nervous, but the photographer was great and allowed us to relax and have a good time. By the time lunch came around we forgot that we were working!
In the end, I think that the brochure was a success - actually some of the pictures from the photo shoot accompanied an article written by Debbie Sessions that appeared in the Journal of Accountancy. I never imagined that one tiny question would lead to a photo shoot that resulted in national recognition!
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