Website Promotes US Accountancy Jobs |
12 Dec 2006 |
| After earning her master’s degree in accounting from the University of Montana, Jenny Taylor had her heart set on working for one of the country’s biggest accounting firms. So in 2002, degree in hand, she set off for Seattle and a job with KPMG. Three years later, the Havre native couldn’t wait to get back to Montana. Tired of a long commute and longer working hours, she blindly e-mailed accounting firms across the state, looking for a return ticket home. Her job in the finance department at St. Peter’s Hospital, though, came from personal connections, not through a job board or other formal employment site. Today, a year after moving back to Montana, Taylor is something of a poster child for montanaconnection.org, a Web site launched last month by the Montana Society of CPAs with the express purpose of finding people to fill accounting jobs available across the state. “Something like that would have been extremely helpful to me when I was trying to come home,” she said. “It would have eliminated that nervous feeling of emailing someone and not knowing what would come back.” Taylor appears in a brochure promoting the site, and tells her story online of leaving Montana only to return three years later. MSCPA communications director Margaret Herriges said the new Web site is strictly for listing accounting jobs in Montana. Job-seekers don’t need to be from the state or have any prior connection here, although the tag line “the way back home” shows that the society is serious about slowing the flow of Treasure State talent to out-of-state firms. “So many of these students were told they have to go out-of-state to get a good accounting job, and it’s not true,” Herriges said. “This is our way of fighting back, of trying to get those people back to Montana.” |
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