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On January 31, 2024, 43 students met with representatives from 20 firms and a professional auditing society at SCU’s annual Winter Accounting/A&IS Career Fair.  The career fair, which was co-hosted by the SCU Accounting Department and the SCU Accounting Association (SCUAA), was held from 2:00-5:00pm in Locatelli Center.  To prepare for the career fair, the attending firms received a digital resume booklet containing student resumes, while students received a firm flyer booklet. Thank you to the following firms that attended:

To help students prepare and navigate professional interactions with hiring firms, the SCUAA organized a free pre-event networking workshop for all students interested in attending the career fair.  This workshop, as well as quarterly SCUAA meetings where firms are invited to speak on industry topics and career preparation, likely contributed to firms reporting that students were well prepared for the event.

Following a suggestion from the Accounting Advisory Board, the SCUAA also created a Passport booklet for the career fair to encourage students to engage with all of the firms in attendance. In the “passport” system developed by the SCUAA, students who met with professionals from a variety of different career categories were eligible to enter a raffle. This is the third SCUAA event that used a passport system, and it was well received by both the firms and students.  About 60 percent of the students at the career fair conversed with at least 50% of the firms in attendance, qualifying them to submit their passports for a raffle drawing.  Sima Khesin (Accounting, class of 2026) was the happy winner of the Apple AirPods Pro prize.

Given the current recruiting landscape, next year’s Winter Accounting/A&IS Career Fair will again be held two weeks following Accounting Information Night in either late January or early February of 2025.