Preparing Accounting Students for CPA Hiring Season

CPA has noticed current issues in the recruitment process of accounting students from Post-Secondary Institutions (PSI). Because accounting firms and industry rely on PSI for most of their new employees, CPA decided that they want to design and implement new programs to help better prepare students for their future accounting career. Through this internship, we will look at previously used systems and programs through focus groups, as well as gain new ideas through surveys. Focus groups will allow us to gain insight from the attendees of our TRU Accounting Night event, such as students, accounting firms and industry. After the event, all attendees will be given a survey to provide feedback on ways to improve the accounting recruitment process. We will then take our findings and create a report that will be shared and presented with CPABC and ACE-WIL BC/Yukon.

Faculty Supervisor:

Jamie Noakes

Student:

Partner:

Chartered Professional Accountants of British Columbia

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Education; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Thompson Rivers University

Program: