becoming a head hunter

got an email this morning from my firm's university recruiter. i'm on the national recruiting team for byu! yay!

what does this mean, you ask? well, basically, i get to go back to byu and encourage students to apply for and interview with my firm! how fun will *that* be!?! i'm super excited. especially because i think that not enough byu accounting students really consider my firm as a career option: too many aim only for the big 4 and don't even check out what other options there are.

because byu has very highly ranked undergrad and graduate accounting programs, and the faculty have worked closely with the big 4 in shaping the curriculum, many of the students see the big 4 as the only option. well, i did my internship at ibm, not with the big 4 -- not even in public accounting! i had a great time there and came back from that internship with some really good private accounting experience. because i felt the desire to get some public accounting experience before accepting a position in the private sector, when i got back on campus, i interviewed with the big 4 and with some smaller public accounting firms (the big 4 are *enormous*!). i ended up taking a job with grant thornton, the largest international public accounting firm outside the big 4, serving mid-cap clients.

so i am headed to provo at the beginning of next month. going to attend meet the firms and then an oktoberfest barbecue. sounds fun, neh? i get to attend the recruiting events again this year, only i won't have the stress of trying to impress the interviewers. sounds perfect! :)

also kind of cool is that i was planning to go to utah to visit family around that time anyway, so ... i had already requested the pto, and now maybe i don't have to pay for my plane ticket. ha ha! that works out pretty good, i would say ...