How to stand out from the crowd of accounting applicants

Step one: Apply online

1. If you want to get an interview notice, you must first fill in your resume on the relevant online recruitment website. When filling out your resume, pay attention to the completeness of the information. School activities or training experiences you have participated in are very important.

2. When submitting resumes, do not submit them blindly. When submitting, you must browse the company's information and requirements for accounting positions.

3. When receiving the interview notice, you should study the nature of the company and the job description. The nature of the company is often an important factor in selecting candidates. Different companies favor different talents. For example, Japanese companies focus on obedience. and hierarchical concepts. If you show a flamboyant personality and like freedom during the interview, then you are probably out of luck; European and American companies focus on empowerment and innovation. If you act too rigid and submissive, then your chances are probably not good. This is what we often say: companies need to find people who fit the corporate culture. You should also study the job description carefully, because the work content of the same position is often different between companies.

Before the interview, you should be well prepared and read more questions and answers related to the position. This way, the probability of success will be greater. Applicants should not attend interviews all day long. They think that the more units they interview with, the better. In fact, this is not the case. There is no time to prepare for 5 or 6 interviews a day. It is better to select 2 or 3 units and prepare intensively.

Step 2: Written test

In order to test the accounting professional ability of applicants, recruiting companies often adopt a simpler and cruder method, which is to issue a test question. If you are not interviewing for a higher professional accountant such as CPA, these test questions are usually not very difficult. Frequently encountered problems:

1. Enterprise accounting elements are divided into six categories, namely assets, liabilities, owners' equity, revenue, expenses and profits. The accounting elements of public institutions are divided into five major categories, namely assets, liabilities, net assets, income and expenses.

2. Principles of double-entry accounting The accounting rules of the debit and credit accounting method can be summarized as: if there is a debit, there must be a credit, and the debit and credit must be equal.

First, any economic transaction must be recorded in two or more accounts at the same time;

Second, the accounts recorded can be similar accounts. , or they can be different types of accounts, but they must be in two accounting directions. They can neither be debited nor credited;

Thirdly, the amount credited to the debit must be equal to the amount credited The amount of the credit.

3. In accounting written examinations, financial ratios are generally involved. Don’t be afraid. In fact, as long as you master a DuPont analysis method, you will master more than half of the ratios.

Return on equity = return on assets (net income/total assets)*equity multiplier (total assets/total equity capital) Net interest rate on assets = net sales interest rate (net profit/sales revenue)*assets Turnover rate = net income/total assets

4. Methods used for depreciation of fixed assets: straight-line method and accelerated depreciation method. Straight-line method includes: average life method and workload method. Accelerated depreciation method includes: double balance Decreasing method and sum of years' digits method

5. Current standards for asset book value do not allow the existence of negative assets, including negative goodwill. Theoretically, continuing to accrue depreciation for fixed assets over their service life, or accruing impairment provisions for over-value, etc. may cause fixed assets to have a negative value, but doing so will reduce the total assets on the balance sheet, and in fact the value of other assets will not Failure to do so would mislead information users. Therefore, when any asset has a negative value, it should be recorded in the audit book at most.

Before interviewing an accountant, you should mainly check the question types related to the position; of course, some units are too lazy to select questions. For example, the questions asked by the unit where I went to interview are a complete set of junior accounting practice questions. So don’t always think that it is unnecessary to take the junior certificate. In fact, the questions that companies often ask in written examinations are from junior level. Intermediate and CPA are relatively too difficult and practicing is too easy. Therefore, comprehensive consideration, written examination questions are often drawn from junior accounting practice.

Step Three: Interview

The success of the interview is related to the future of the job seeker. Anyone who participates in the interview for the first time will feel nervous, flustered, careless, and forgetful. It is common for Western words to fail to convey the intended meaning. But you must have a good attitude during the interview and don't place too much emphasis on the interview results.

To respond to the examiner's questions during the interview, you should do the following:

1. Learn to distinguish different questions

Experienced interviewers often use different interview methods and questions, so Don’t be nervous about various questions. Some questions may be to confirm your work experience and ability, while others may test your analysis ability, thinking ability, reaction, ideas, etc. For example: Why is the sewer cover round? There is no correct answer to such a question, as long as it can be justified. For campus recruitment without work experience, this method is usually used. Pay attention to the distinction during the interview. Some applicants are very nervous about any question, which affects their performance.

2. Pay attention to "answer the questions" during the interview

Many people often ignore this point. For example, interviewers in many companies are often not professional enough. They will first ask: Introduce yourself. . What else: Talk about your strengths and weaknesses. Experienced interviewers often do not ask these questions, but some candidates always like to introduce themselves while talking, which often arouses the disgust of the interviewers. Some applicants did not listen to the question clearly and answered according to their own ideas. As a result, the answer was wrong. I can't hear you clearly. Can you confirm? Therefore, it is recommended that candidates follow the interviewer's thinking, stay highly focused, and do not stay in their own "thinking circle".

3. Answer questions in an orderly, concise and non-verbose way.

McKinsey & Company has a famous saying: Everything can be divided into three sentences. For example: Have breakfast at 9 am today. It can be said: I ate at 9:00 am today and had breakfast. Therefore, I suggest that when answering questions, you might as well follow this routine: first point, second point, third point... In this way, the listener will understand clearly, and the speaker will not miss the key point. There is another one, that is Be concise, don't be wordy, don't treat others as fools, the key point is the key point of one thing or point of view, so this principle is actually to be concise and to the point. Some applicants spend 10 minutes introducing themselves, and the listeners are already bored. Who has the patience?

4. Be honest but not too honest

The interview is an "interview" "War" is a game between two sides. So be sure to pay attention: say what you should say, and don't say what you shouldn't say. Just say you understand what you understand, and be brave enough to admit what you don’t understand. But there is also a trick to this. You can say: I don’t know much about this, but let me share my opinion. The results are good, both answers solve the problem and leave a humble image to others. Some applicants are obviously half-hearted. When they encounter some problems, they brag a lot. Do you know who is interviewing you? They must be experts. There are also applicants who have only a little knowledge and talk endlessly. The final result is Of course he was eliminated, and he might have thought he performed well today.