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Title: I'm Bona Fide!!
Post by: Getback on July 25, 2011, 02:55:26 PM: Was working on a cover letter this morning when I thought how tiresome it was always have to explain that my CPA license was pending. So I looked it up on the Professional License Agency website and there she was.........Finally! Then I deleted the explanation and added CPA to my title. Easy Peasy!

I won't go into the gory details of that journey since (ad nauseum) I've posted plenty about it. It sure is sweet to finish that journey.
Title: Re: I'm Bona Fide!!
Post by: tmetal on July 25, 2011, 02:56:30 PM: Congrats! its about darn time!
Title: Re: I'm Bona Fide!!
Post by: Getback on July 25, 2011, 02:59:55 PM: Quote from: tmetal on July 25, 2011, 02:56:30 PM
Congrats! its about darn time!

Isn't that the truth! It took 9 months after I passed the last exam. Just one closed door after the other. If it weren't for a former boss I would have never gotten it. Thank goodness I didn't burn all my bridges.
Title: Re: I'm Bona Fide!!
Post by: Maverick on July 25, 2011, 04:11:13 PM: Quote from: Getback on July 25, 2011, 02:59:55 PM
Isn't that the truth! It took 9 months after I passed the last exam. Just one closed door after the other. If it weren't for a former boss I would have never gotten it. Thank goodness I didn't burn all my bridges.

There is a lesson in that last statement for a LOT of folks who may be looking for work now or in the future. The momentary pleasure of burning your bridges may be nice but your employment history will not go away just because you severed ties there. Having been a pre employment investigator in my old department let me say that I was very very interested in past work history and did not let a simple statement of dates of employment be the end of the conversation. More than a few folks never made it past me because of the stuff I found out about their background.

Another thing to consider. Make sure your "professional" e-mail handle is not related in any way to your posting on BBS or the passing of jokes to friends. Everything you put online does not go away and can be traced. Employers are digging into things like blogs, facebook etc. to find out if a potential employee might be a liability in joining the company.
Title: Re: I'm Bona Fide!!
Post by: ozrocker on July 25, 2011, 04:32:21 PM: Cratchit what are you doing on this board! You should be doing the books, humbug!

P.S. Congrats :aok

:cheers: Oz
Title: Re: I'm Bona Fide!!
Post by: Getback on July 25, 2011, 04:59:58 PM: Quote from: Maverick on July 25, 2011, 04:11:13 PM
There is a lesson in that last statement for a LOT of folks who may be looking for work now or in the future. The momentary pleasure of burning your bridges may be nice but your employment history will not go away just because you severed ties there. Having been a pre employment investigator in my old department let me say that I was very very interested in past work history and did not let a simple statement of dates of employment be the end of the conversation. More than a few folks never made it past me because of the stuff I found out about their background.

Another thing to consider. Make sure your "professional" e-mail handle is not related in any way to your posting on BBS or the passing of jokes to friends. Everything you put online does not go away and can be traced. Employers are digging into things like blogs, facebook etc. to find out if a potential employee might be a liability in joining the company.

Nothing on the internet is tied to my professional account. Then again I'm pretty guarded about saying the things in the wrong way.
Title: Re: I'm Bona Fide!!
Post by: Dichotomy on July 25, 2011, 05:07:13 PM: :cheers:

Congrats sir
Title: Re: I'm Bona Fide!!
Post by: ozrocker on July 26, 2011, 05:52:16 AM: Wow a name from a movie got modded out. Remember Scrooges Accountant's last name?
Anyway it got modded :rofl

:cheers: Oz