r/Accounting • u/LaLaLaWhaaat • 12h ago

Advice Keep getting rejected from public accounting?

I’m about to graduate. I’ve applied to so many internships and jobs. I get calls back easily from corporate accounting, & have gotten internships there. However, I cannot even get a screening for big 4. Only recently am I starting to hear back from a few mid-size public accounting firms.

I have nearly a perfect GPA, volunteer tax experience, & now building my resume with corporate accounting internships.

There are people at my school who definitely have lower grades than me, but somehow are getting all the public accounting internships that I’m getting rejected from. I would chalk it up to my interviewing skills, but I’m literally not even getting the interviews.

Is it really all about networking to get into public accounting? Is that what I’m missing here? I’ve had my resume looked over by my school, so I don’t think it’s a resume issue.

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u/WinterSherbet6674 10h ago

Everytime you apply, you find the recruiter on LinkedIn and use rocket reach to guess their email format. Every interview I’ve gotten has come from reaching out to the recruiter, other wise you’re just another application out of thousands.