Philippine Jobs For The Accountancy|Accounting Graduates
Congratulations, graduates! You’ve made it! This post is for the Accountancy/Accounting graduates who are (or who will be) looking for jobs after G-Day. To hurdle the 5-year B.S. Accountancy course is a feat in itself. I know it because I’ve been there more than a dozen years ago (though ours was a four-year course then). Congratulate yourselves too! You certainly deserve a feast.
So, what now after graduation? Should you start looking a job immediately knowing that accounting graduates are in demand these days? Or should you take the CPA Board exam first and worry about job-hunting later?
If you can’t wait another 6-8 months before earning your first hard-earned money, here’s a quick job-hunting guide for you:
Finding Jobs for the Accounting Graduates
1. Ready your resumes, application letter, Transcript of records and other credentials. Make 20 copies or more. However, make sure that you edited your application/covering letter for every company that you applied.
2. Check your department’s or alumni office’s bulletin board. Some prospective employers post announcement in the bulletin board. While you are preparing for graduation, or just visiting the school after graduation day, don’t forget to check these areas I mentioned above.
3. Follow leads. If you hear from classmates or from a professor that XYZ Company is hiring, go make some research and submit an application letter. Or submit an unsolicited application letter, and do the research later.
4. Do not wait for the job opportunity to come to you. Although these things happen, like when you are just hanging out in the Accounting Department office and a prospective employer suddenly came in looking for jobless graduates, and you just happened to be right there at the right moment. But generally, you have to act fast since it is a competitive job market out there.
5. Submit your resume on online job sites. Monster, Jobstreet and JobsDB are three leading online job site. The later two are very active in the Philippine Market, while Monster is a giant worldwide. There’s also Mytrababo.com, trabaho.com, applyna.com. jobjoints.com and mynimo.com. When you submit your resumes to these sites, simply put your best self.
6. Buy the Sunday newspaper. There you will find hundreds of ads for accounting staff and other jobs requiring Accountancy graduates. For Manila, I think it’s the Manila Bulletin which has more pages on job ads. For Cebu, it’s Sunstar.
7. Believe in yourself. If you don’t, probably no one else will.
When you are a fresh graduate, you don’t have really that much option. But you can choose the course of your career. Positions which are usually available for the new Accountancy Graduates are:
1. Audit Staff (external/internal)
2. Accountant (Junior/Senior)
3. Bookkeeper
4. Finance Analyst
5. Accounting Staff/Clerk/Assistant
6. Cost accounting staff
There are companies that consider the CPA license as a prerequisite to promotion. So, if you happen to be in that company and you desire to climb higher in the finance department, it is better that you take the CPA board exam. Check out my tips on passing the CPA Board Exam. The earlier you take the board, the better. Review centers usually commence their classes in June.
However, there are departments under finance that won’t necessarily need that CPA license in order to progress. Purchasing, Billing and Credit and Collection are examples of those.
If you are a Filipino accountancy graduate looking for a job in Cebu or Manila, I may be able to help you. I got friends who are occupying management positions, and I get to see their postings on our yahoo groups. Email me your resume at ceblogger(at)yahoo(dot)com. Newly passed CPAs are also welcome.
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Ceblogger is a CPA trapped in his cubicle while his mind wanders outside watching the world, and exploring possibilities his mind conceived.
March 30th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Or your friends can post their requirements at http://www.jobjoints.com Ahhehe. Nag plugging spamming pa.
March 31st, 2009 at 8:04 am
bro, i checked your site before posting here. i’ll add it in my list.
April 2nd, 2009 at 5:27 am
I am an Accounting grad. Now, my work requires me to do research on investment bank. So there, heto idagdag mo pa. ^_^
April 2nd, 2009 at 6:30 am
snow, your line of work, i think, is not usually advertised. Must require experience. Finance and Economics grads can also fit into that job.
April 2nd, 2009 at 8:54 am
I saw you drop by on my post about Twitter, and thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Anyway, newly graduates still have a lot of companies to work for in spite of the global. The problem is the balance of applicants versus the neccesity of the required manpower. As I understand it, skilled workers are now having more opportunities than the white collar job seekers.
December 26th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
i badly need more accounting staff!