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Stephen Novalski, national campus recruitment coordinator at KPMG.
You can find his winning resumé tip on page 18 in the latest edition of Career Insider Accounting.

Winning Resumé Tip

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Your great grades and your part-time work experience might make you a shoo-in for that accounting job you’ve been working towards, but they don’t guarantee you an interview unless your resumé gets noticed first.

We asked recruiters from the accounting world to tell us what makes a candidate stand out on paper, how to best present one’s accomplishments, and how to craft a resumé that will put you on the top of the pile.

Quantify Your Achievements
Impress the recruiter by quantifying the successes that you have achieved in former positions. For example, perhaps you have reduced a campus club’s annual budget by 15 percent, or provided onthe - job training to four volunteer committee members.

Quantifying your achievements provides the reader with specific evidence of your accomplishments prior to the interview stage. Try to have at least one measure of results for each position that you have listed on your resumé.
Lyndsey Evans
Campus Recruitment Specialist
Deloitte

Dynamite Interview Tip

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Your résumé and grades have gotten you this far, and the recruiter you met at that career fair took a shine to you.

But before you take that accounting job for granted, you might want to give your upcoming job interview some serious thought.

We asked a number of recruiters what prospective employees can do to impress them during a job interview.

Here’s a tip that will show you how to put your best foot forward and boost your chances of getting hired.

Demonstrate Interest

Having a fundamental understanding of the organization you wish to work for is important.

It shows commitment and initiative.

Hiring managers and human resource specialists attend career fairs to answer your questions about specific jobs and the staffing process.

Also, before you go to an interview, visit the organization’s website — the more you know the better your chances of demonstrating an interest in a job you really want.

Donna Lee
Project Manager
Student Recruitment Program
Canada Revenue Agency

For more dynamite interview tips, go to pages 16-18 of the 2007-2008 edition of Career Insider Accounting.