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How virtual can accountants actually become?

Some accounting grads may leave school knowing they want to be accountants, but there is a growing percentage that aspires to leadership positions, using accounting as a platform for other roles.

Even if jobs are available to recent accounting grads, just holding a diploma might not be enough.

A recent survey reveals something most of us probably already know – using social networking sites at work drum up privacy and ethics issues and that many organizations don’t have it figured out yet.

IMGCAP(1)] Think you know what young CPAs want from their firms? Think again. In November 2008, a group of 15 young staff from Chicago area firms got together for the Fourth Annual Rosenberg Associates Staff Forum to get candid about what it’s really like to be young and just starting out in an accounting firm. Here are some of the key realizations from that meeting:

Ever have a Boomer in your firm ask a younger worker a verbal question only to have that younger worker respond via email or instant message—even when they sit in the same room?

Not all Millennials are Millennials.

Gen Yworkers are perceived by recruiters as the weakest performers among the fourgenerations now in the workforce, according to a poll by Internet careers siteJobfox quoted in The Chronicle Herald.

IMGCAP(1)]One of the enduring lessons I’ve learned over my career is the value of having mentors. In my experience, the advice, guidance, and encouragement of a wise and trusted mentor has been invaluable.

Are Millennials into e-mailing or not? Marketing minds want to know. A recent study has revealed that 28 percent of Generation Y recipients found email received from companies to be relevant, while 32 percent had no opinion.