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KPMG is my dream firm! |
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Your anger is showing |
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02/06/2006 |
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YOU recruited 65 people???
I don't think so -- are you so arrogant you can't even use the word we.
YOU set up the interviews. People come on board because of a lot of things, like maybe this is their only Big 4 offer, or maybe they liked the actual audit or tax person they spoke with.
YOU say you work weekends -- like maybe you take a phone call that weekend. BFD
And how much of your "job" or "overtime" is partying? Do you understand the difference between going to a party at night and doing spreadsheets? No, probably not, because you look down on staff, senior and manager accountants and can get away with it, because you are so busy brownnosing the partners.
And your logic escapes me -- this is a firm that gives 5 full weeks vacation, but your last vacation was 3 days in July. So what's the story, your vacation before that was 4 weeks in June?? |
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Yes I recruited 65 people last fiscal year. The people I work with recruited more than 650 experienced hires.
We recruited them through various sources including the internet, employee referrals, direct contacts, agencies, job and social networking sites, job fairs and (very rarely if at all) at a party. 2 last year if my memory serves and 1 of them was the firm holiday party.
You ask do I understand the difference between going to a party at night and doing spreadsheets? Well thankfully doing spreadsheets is only a few hours a week of my job. When I'm not working the phones, sourcing the databses or doing spreadsheets I usually am found with my family watching a movie, coaching baseball or going out to dinner with them. You mistake me for the incredibly naive 20 something you seem to be. I don't get paid to do spreadsheets, I get paid to find people to fill open positions. Thats the main function of my job
LOL on the 4 weeks in June that was really funny.
In my opinion the reason you have an aversion to "I" is because you've probably never contributed individually in order to make a team stronger. Any interviewer will tell you that a hallmark of a non doer is someone who constantly uses the word "we" on an interview.
And my weekends are spent working the phones and the databases to match skillsets to requirments; at least lately
Arrogant...maybe a little..but certainly I know the time to be humble. And when someone like you..who obvioulsy lacks the stamina and spelling skills necessary to survive in the Big 4 attacks me I wont be humble. I know at the end of the day that I do a pretty decent job. The true measure of which is taken not by the all to unappreciative partner but by the people I recruit themselves. That's the real satisfaction...in offering a job to someone who wants it, deserves it and (if I've done my job well)...succeeds in it
And my partners will tell you that one thing I aint...is a brownnoser. I push back big time
and unfortunately have to tell them things they dont want to hear espcially now
And I dont look down on staff and managers because I recognize that I'm one of them. Man someone must have seriously wounded you when you worked for whatever firm you worked for. How truly sad for you.
You are right about one thing and that is people come on board because of the people they meet on the interview, probably more than 75% of the time that's the main focal point of their decision. 99% of the time I am one of the "we" that they meet.
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