Hi, my name is Tom Walsh. I graduated university delaware in 2014 with a double major in accounting and finance. First thing go through is my time and learner was incredible. I hope you guys are enjoying God so far. I came in business undeclared cause I didn't know what I wanted to do specifically, like at all, I had no idea. And I just kinda had a general idea that business would be a good field. I chose accounting and finance double-major strictly because I thought they were the strongest of the business majors in terms of like technical skills. And if I had those majors down the line, I can always switch to a marketing role or something else. If I found that I enjoyed those or I could enjoy those. But I couldn't probably do the reverse. Ratified a marketing degree. It will be harder to get into a fight and county role because they tend to require a more specific knowledge base of the skills, like the technical skills. The rest of my time there, I joined Alpha Kappa Psi business fraternity, which is a co-ed fraternity. I think all business fraternities are they? I mean, I highly recommend that it's a great social thing to do, but also it's just great. You make great connections, friends, and even as an alumni, what seven years graduated? Holy crap. There's still like Facebook groups for alumni where people post jobs or people ask specific questions that other people might have answers to because it's a broad base of people in many different fields. So that was a great experience that I highly recommend. Number two, my internships, I add one internship after my junior year with a company called productivity. And basically proactivity is just a consulting company in the auditing space, which I'm not sure if you know about yet, but you don't need to know right now for the purposes of this video. But basically the point of an internship and you guys will get there. But the point of it isn't necessarily to give you a career path that you're going to be at for the rest of your life. It's just to give you exposure to what you're learning in class applied in the real world. And also, if it is a career path that you think you might want to go on, It's a good way to give you like a three month snapshot of it. And what's great about it is you are not to convey your first couple of years out of college until you learn that, right? So once you have that internship, if you love it, That's great and that affirms the career path you might choose. But if you hate it, you know, hey, I got good experience, but now I definitely know I don't want to do that. And learning what you don't want to do career wise is half the battle. All right, so a quick look at my career path. Out of college, I started with productivity, that company I entered with their consulting company, so their client-based. So what that means is basically a very uncertain schedule. You could be with one client for a month and then out of nowhere, they need you to help with the client in Boston. So very fast-paced on certain schedule. But the benefits are out of college. You get to see so many companies in different industries and find out which ones you like better or worse, right? So maybe out of college, you're thinking I would be very interesting to get a new retail and work financially or why is there? But then if you're in consulting and you work with a retail client, learn you hate it. And you don't like, you don't think you would like working for a company like that. That's great information for your career. Moves down the line. From there, I actually worked at a digital marketing company because I kind of had a quarter life crisis and thought, I would like that better. Very long story short. I learned the grass wasn't greener for me at least. And I wanted to move back to accounting and finance, which led to me where I am now at AstraZeneca, working in the accounting space for compensation and benefits are basically when people get their salaries, stock compensation. Anything else? I make sure that's accounted for properly and in the right space, the right time period day my current job involves a lot of perform calculations to make entries for the company's financials. And also includes performing budgets, creating forecasts for other areas of the company to use in their strategy and decision-making for the future. You have to succeed in a job like this. You need to have great technical skills in Excel and other systems that you guys probably aren't exposed to yet. To be detail oriented, you be able to work with, with others and collaborate with different areas of the business, some of which might not know exactly what you do or your terminologies. You need to be able to communicate very well with people and explain it to them in a way they'll understand. Finally, you need to be able to read data in a way where you can understand what's important and what's not. And sift through that to get what you need. From my current role, I don't really know where I'm going specifically, but the beauty of it is I work at a big company and I sought that out because I wanted to company where I could move roles and be doing something completely different ball with the same company. So I'm happy I'm finally at a place where I could do that and coming out of college. I don't know if that's right for you. Some of you might want to go to smaller companies where you can be, you know, provide more of an impact. But the draw to be for a bigger company was that I could change completely what I'm doing, but keep the consistency of where I'm working as well. The first thing is internships. I think it's great decision at business school to get an internship after junior year because it leads into your career after senior year, you already have a foot in. But I do a lot of people that would try to get internships after freshman year after software. Add my advice to you. Nothing wrong with that. But you have your whole life to work, right? Enjoy your last summer to do at a job that that's just like a fun casual job, right? Like I was a camp counselor for a while and loved it before I went into my full-time career. Secondly, your career path, There's going to be some opportunities that may seem risky and may not seem like the direct line that you're supposed to take in whatever major you are. I encourage you to look into those and possibly take them. There's nothing wrong with bounced around a little bit and have a different experience, if anything, it broadens who you are and what you provide to the next company you could go to. Take some risks, especially when you're young. Just make sure whatever move you make that next move, add something to your tool belt, right? So if you're looking at a job or you're in a job you hate, just make sure that that's added experience you didn't have or a skill you didn't have. You can then build on what you are going to the next position. Lastly, it seems like everyone wants college kids. And once you to think that you make decisional major right now, and that decides who you are and what you work as for the rest of your life. And I that's not further from the truth. I know so many people that have had a major switched majors or graduated with a major, and now they're doing something wildly different than what their major is. I currently work in a county with a guy who had a history major, right? My brother was an engineer and now he's working in finance as a consultant. So don't feel like you're making a decision that you have to stick to for the rest of your life. Just make the decision on your major and what classes you want to take based on the information you have now. And your goals will change throughout life and then make that informed decision at those points in time. Alright, so if you take anything from this video, just take that, alright, your decisions right now aren't going to be deciding who you are for the rest of your life. I feel like I rambled a little bit throughout this, but hope you got something from it and made they just enjoy college. And best of luck.
BUAD 110 Alumni Videos Thomas Walsh - Senior Business Accountant
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