CSUN’s Recruiting Boot Camp helps students gain the skills they need to get their careers started.

CSUN’s Accounting Career Center offers advisement/coaching, resume writing, interviewing, job search training, and job and internship placement help.

Our annual two-day Recruiting Boot Camp is held each summer for accounting juniors/seniors. Industry professionals offer classes on interviewing, business ethics, proper working attire, networking and more.

This grant will allow CSUN to include more students, add a one-day spring program and extend orientation to CSUN freshmen and sophomores.

San Fernando Valley

County of Los Angeles

City of Los Angeles

CSUN’s business education extends throughout the San Fernando Valley and well into the Los Angeles region and beyond. Since its founding in 1958, CSUN has made a significant and long-term economic impact on the region and the state of California, generating nearly $1.9 billion in economic impact and nearly 12,000 jobs each year.

One of the benefits of a CSUN accounting education is the mix of theoretical and hands-on training students receive. The online platform College Choice recently ranked CSUN’s bachelor’s program in accounting and informational systems third best in the nation.

Serving more students on Pell Grants than any other institution in California, CSUN is one of the most diverse universities in the country and has been recognized by Insight into Diversity, Diverse Issues in Higher Education and the National Role Models for Diversity conference. Traditionally underserved students in the accounting program have grown steadily, increasing from 18.8% in 1993 to 34.6% in 2015.

The Department of Accounting and Information Systems career center serves as a bridge from college life to the world of work. Services provided by the career center include career and job search counseling; a campus recruiting program; job listings; workshops on resume writing, interviewing, job offer and salary negotiation, internships and more; employer panels on topics such as interviewing and resume writing; a credential file service; and career fairs. Center staff also help the over 2,000 students in the Accounting and Information Systems majors polish their resumes and cover letters, provide appropriate interview clothes to those who can't afford to buy their own, and get them ready for recruiting. This level of coaching is particularly helpful for students from underserved communities, who may not have had access to learning the skills necessary to help them find and win the jobs that they have prepared for during their time at CSUN. Improving and adding capacity for our accounting Recruiting Boot Camp program helps these students take their skills further and helps opens doors to employment and fulfilling careers.

The Accounting Career Center is a key example of why the annual Social Mobility Index, sponsored by CollegeNet, recently ranked CSUN fifth in the nation for its impact on the improved earning power and economic prospects of its graduates. With additional resources, the Career Center will be able to provide services to all those students who deserve them.

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