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Schneed10 · 06-16-2010, 09:16 PM

Where did you go to school?

Unfortunately the GPA won't stand out, so don't even bother putting it on your resume. Rule of thumb, if it's not 3.0 or higher there's no point in putting it. But where you went to school carries more weight than your GPA anyway. I had a 2.7 but had a finance major with a math minor from a strong (but not elite tier) school, that got me in the door.

You can still talk up your database and excel skills. Sell the fact that you understand how to create queries in access, and do things like pivot tables and charts in excel.

This kind of thing would catch the eye of accounting departments in healthcare providers and insurance companies, finance departments, data warehousing departments, etc.

Sounds like you're not too sure what you want to do. Tell me if any of the below things appeal to you, and I'll try to steer you towards the right title match:

- Maintaining journal entries and ledger balances for the purpose of reporting financial performance.

- Pricing out contract proposals to determine whether a contract offer represents an increase or decrease in revenue, and quantifying said amounts.

- Designing processes, such as routes for a delivery truck, to maximize the number of deliveries in a day while minimizing time and expenses for things like gasoline.

- Working behind the scenes to maintain a database's integrity, permitting end users to reliably report accurate information.

- Handle business transactions, keeping records of cash collections, monitoring outstanding accounts, working to improve your company's process for collecting cash faster and more often

- Negotiate contracts with customers, suppliers, insurers with the goal of boosting revenue or reducing costs

- Assess business opportunities, develop a financial projection for said opportunity, develop financial metrics with the goal of supporting an executive and informing him whether the business opportunity is wise

- Be a boots-on-the-ground type, working in the operations of a company, to implement policies and procedures and oversee the execution of the business

- Analyzing operational efficiency in a business with the goal of enhancing throughput, speed, efficiency.

- Develop budgets and financial projections for a company, and assist deparment heads in the development of their budgets

- Calculating probabilities of certain events taking place, factoring in the cost of said event, for the purpose of developing an expected cost

- Develop reports on market share to assess competition within certain regions, helping to inform business decisions and the development of a firm's strategic direction

- Get very technical, and design systems to house data

- Get very technical, and design websites

- Get very technical, and actually write computer code to program the system to do whatever

- Interfacing with customers to handle insurance claims

- Interfacing with customers to sell products

- Visit clients to advertise services and drum up business for your company

- Design marketing materials and advertising to the customer

06-16-2010, 09:16 PM	#55
Schneed10 A Dude Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Newtown Square, PA Age: 46 Posts: 12,458	Re: Trying to get a Government Job Where did you go to school? Unfortunately the GPA won't stand out, so don't even bother putting it on your resume. Rule of thumb, if it's not 3.0 or higher there's no point in putting it. But where you went to school carries more weight than your GPA anyway. I had a 2.7 but had a finance major with a math minor from a strong (but not elite tier) school, that got me in the door. You can still talk up your database and excel skills. Sell the fact that you understand how to create queries in access, and do things like pivot tables and charts in excel. This kind of thing would catch the eye of accounting departments in healthcare providers and insurance companies, finance departments, data warehousing departments, etc. Sounds like you're not too sure what you want to do. Tell me if any of the below things appeal to you, and I'll try to steer you towards the right title match: - Maintaining journal entries and ledger balances for the purpose of reporting financial performance. - Pricing out contract proposals to determine whether a contract offer represents an increase or decrease in revenue, and quantifying said amounts. - Designing processes, such as routes for a delivery truck, to maximize the number of deliveries in a day while minimizing time and expenses for things like gasoline. - Working behind the scenes to maintain a database's integrity, permitting end users to reliably report accurate information. - Handle business transactions, keeping records of cash collections, monitoring outstanding accounts, working to improve your company's process for collecting cash faster and more often - Negotiate contracts with customers, suppliers, insurers with the goal of boosting revenue or reducing costs - Assess business opportunities, develop a financial projection for said opportunity, develop financial metrics with the goal of supporting an executive and informing him whether the business opportunity is wise - Be a boots-on-the-ground type, working in the operations of a company, to implement policies and procedures and oversee the execution of the business - Analyzing operational efficiency in a business with the goal of enhancing throughput, speed, efficiency. - Develop budgets and financial projections for a company, and assist deparment heads in the development of their budgets - Calculating probabilities of certain events taking place, factoring in the cost of said event, for the purpose of developing an expected cost - Develop reports on market share to assess competition within certain regions, helping to inform business decisions and the development of a firm's strategic direction - Get very technical, and design systems to house data - Get very technical, and design websites - Get very technical, and actually write computer code to program the system to do whatever - Interfacing with customers to handle insurance claims - Interfacing with customers to sell products - Visit clients to advertise services and drum up business for your company - Design marketing materials and advertising to the customer __________________ God made certain people to play football. He was one of them.