Description of the video:
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- Coming into the Kelley MSA program,
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my two main objectives were to land a job
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with a big-four accounting firm
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and also to pass the CPA
exams before I started work.
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And as soon as you step on campus,
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Kelley sets you up for success.
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So within a few days of starting school,
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I was already in front of
big-four accounting firms
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and met the person that
eventually interviewed
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and offered me my job.
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And I'm happy to say that
I landed a job with PWC,
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which is one of the biggest
accounting firms in the world,
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and also passed my CPA exams
before even starting my career.
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I feel like I have a
higher career trajectory.
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I know that every couple years,
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I'm gonna be promoted,
assuming good performance.
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So I compare that to
some of the individuals
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that didn't get an MSA degree
or didn't go to Kelley,
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and I see some of those individuals
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staying in the same position
for three to four years.
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I think it's a case-by-case basis,
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but I know that getting
a degree from Kelley
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has definitely helped me in
terms of career trajectory
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and where I'm at now.
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While on campus at Kelley,
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we were always put into team environments.
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So that forced you to become
a leader or a follower.
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And some of those projects, I think,
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are directly attributable
to why I think I have
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some of the leadership
abilities that I do now.
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We were always doing real-world cases.
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And I think that those
scenarios that we were put in
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are very attributable to my success.
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So as I look back to
where I was six years ago,
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applying to grad school and trying to say,
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should I start my career
or go to the MSA program,
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I know I made the right choice.
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I'm in a promotion geared to be a manager
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at one of the biggest
accounting firms in the world.
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And I know that the MSA
program has helped me get here.
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