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Why are you so desp to know what questions they ask on the phone? Do you really think it will make that much difference? And even if you do know the questions- are you going to formulate and regurgitate a premeditated response thus defeating the real point to most of the questions they're likely...

Stereotypes fail.

LOL it's a great question. Some ppl write really random stuff and others write much more sensible things.

Why not email or call them to let them know your situation and that you tried to attach it? Some ppl give up rather easily...

Anyway, I wonder where that guy who said he did FX trading went.. i'm curious what system he uses and if he's uber leveraged. It was really good man. Even motivated me to get into it more and made me wish I was a student in YA again. I even asked the guy if he would be interested in speaking...

stalkers yO? only a matter of time before randoms at various functions know you by your username and not your actual name. jkjk.. ps. ur username makes sense now :)

Definitely doesn't hurt to try. Maybe your careers advisor can help you with connections. On a sidenote, bear in mind most firms don't have a work experience program in place so you'll likely be doing very ad-hoc work (i.e. mostly administrative things)- therefore it's not so much what you...

Thanks for the input 3li... very interesting job you have there. Do you ever read out news snippets to your clients though? My dealer does that sometimes and then he has to give me the whole "advice provided here is based on publicly available information" disclosure and that it's not...

Same for UNSW. Wikipedia is much more detailed.

is it purely completing trades on behalf of clients or do u offer advice? curious as to what the job is and what kind of portfolio size/client size a grad would be working on.

^ wow that's a dedicated post lol. and, i'm supposed to be doing a damn uni assignment due on monday but my group has gone to sleep. sigh. edit: the connection was actually my neighbour lol. never underestimate the neighbours.

When I first learnt about it in Micro, couldn't help myself from reading the Wikipedia article. Very interesting.

Good luck. I also did w/e in a big4 firm but I knew one of the partners so that helped alot. If I were u, I would definitely get some more backup options because it's not that easy to get w/e in a big4 firm off the bat. Other places, check out BRW Top 100 if you're curious for what other...

who (or what platform) do u do fx on? highly leveraged?

If it's any consolation, my experience wasn't that positive. I remember in 05 they were running a bit behind with reviewing applications so instead of only inviting people in for the info session who were being given interviews (as we all had thought), they invited those who hadn't yet been...

What is that based on? o_O

Also note; 1. Small firms don't necessarily pay less than Big firms. 2. Small companies also don't necessarily pay more than big corporations.

I think part of the difference is also attributable to career progression and non-financial benefits. Career progression being that in big 4 there is a structured promotional plan in place for the accountants whereas in the private sector, your promotional prospects are more dependent on space...

Ouch. I suggest you call the PKF HR people asap and maybe they can explain? I can see your painful situation though. Hope you had other contingency plans but that being said, if I had been offered a job which I was intending to accept, then I probably wouldn't be following through with any...

Disagree (at least for audit) purely because we're always growing, there's always more rules/standards/requirements to be enforced and if anything, winning (or losing) large audit clients is more likely going to have an impact on recruitment numbers than the credit crisis itself. That being...