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by Derek Loosvelt|January 28, 2015
Last week, in his latest State of the Union Address, President
Obama noted that the U.S. is just one of a few industrial nations
in the world without laws mandating paid parental leave for
employees. This had me wondering: Which are the other two countries
that don't mandate paid leave to parents? Which countries offer the
most paid leave? And which companies here in the U.S.
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by Vault Careers|January 21, 2015
Since December, Vault has been asking accounting professionals
across the U.S. to tell us what it's like to work for their firms.
So far, we've surveyed about 6,000 accounting professionals, and
one of the questions we've been asking has to do with interviews.
Specifically, we've been asking accountants to tell us the
questions that they were asked during interviews with their firms.
And, to that end, below you'll find 49 common interview questions
that top accounting firms ask.
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by Derek Loosvelt|January 07, 2015
When Yahoo Chairman Maynard Webb interviews you, he doesn't just
probe your past for things like extracurricular activities,
teamwork skills, and ability to overcome difficult situations; he
also wants to get a sense of your level of "self-awareness" and
"openness." In fact, here's a two-part question Webb uses while
probing prospective employees: "Six months from now, we're going to
know each other very well. What will your team and what will I say
that you do really, really well?
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by Derek Loosvelt|December 17, 2014
It was the year of distressed babies, flash boys, and underpaid
women. It was the year of frozen eggs, racist statements, income
inequality, and the openly gay CEO. It was the year that Wall
Street got soft, and the year that an unknown schoolteacher in
China who hatched a company in his tiny apartment became a
multi-billionaire in the largest IPO in history. It was 2014. And
here are your 10 biggest workplace stories of the year. 10.
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by Derek Loosvelt|December 10, 2014
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to speak with Ari Hoffnung,
a former Wall Street banker turned public servant turned medical
cannabis entrepreneur. For more than a decade, Hoffnung worked at
Bear Stearns, where he was a managing director. Not long after Bear
imploded in 2008, Hoffnung went to work for the City of New York as
deputy comptroller.
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by Derek Loosvelt|December 03, 2014
One of the most interesting details packed into the recent
15,000-word New Yorker profile of German Chancellor Angela
Merkel is the fact that Merkel, widely considered to be the most
powerful woman in the world, studied physics and earned her
doctorate in quantum chemistry. This scientific background of
Merkel's interested me so much that it led me to research the
academic and work experience of the 43 men who've served as
President of the United States.
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by Vault Careers|December 03, 2014
Ever wondered what life inside a major firm is like? Here,
Deloitte's Heather Reiter--a New Jersey native--gives us a glimpse
of her career to date, as well as her day-to-day life as Manager in
Deloitte's Tax Management Consulting practice in Belgium.
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by Derek Loosvelt|November 19, 2014
Last week, the New York Times published an article entitled
"Goldman Sachs Recasts Its Reputation to Woo Tech Talent.
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by Derek Loosvelt|November 12, 2014
With 40 percent of all entry-level full-time hires now being
sourced from internship programs, you'd think that the most
important factor to college students when choosing an internship
would be full-time employment prospects. But that isn't the case at
all. In fact, the two most important factors to students are these:
location and pay. Earlier this year, Vault administered its annual
Internship Experience Survey to 5,800 interns at 100 different
internship programs.
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by Derek Loosvelt|November 04, 2014
Five or six years ago, if you had told employees of the New
York-headquartered High Times that some day in the not so
distant future there would be a $300 million private equity fund
named after and run by their counterculture publication, they
likely would've told you to "stop bogarting the joint, man.
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