{"id":17540,"date":"2012-08-02T21:05:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T21:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=17540"},"modified":"2017-11-14T08:50:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T13:50:14","slug":"students-benefit-from-early-contact-with-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2012\/08\/students-benefit-from-early-contact-with-professionals\/","title":{"rendered":"Students benefit from early contact with professionals."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMost of the problems I\u2019ve had, he\u2019s had, too. It was great to talk to somebody who had the challenges&#8212;and made it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those words from incoming accounting student Muhammad Ramjohn describe his conversation with FIU alumnus Lazaro Alfaro (MACC \u201912, BACC \u201911) during a \u201cMeet the Employers\u201d networking event on June 15, 2012, part of an Introduction to the Profession non-credit course sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was the first person in my family to earn a college degree, just like Muhammad will be, and I enjoyed talking to him about college life and the profession of accounting,\u201d Alfaro said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17541\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17541\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17541 size-full\" title=\"PwC Intro to Profession\" src=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/PwC-Intro-to-Profession.jpg\" alt=\"Students, faculty, alumni and staff mingled at the first session of Introduction to the Profession sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17541\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students, faculty, alumni and staff mingled at the first session of Introduction to the Profession sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI asked questions about an accountant\u2019s day-to-day life,\u201d Ramjohn said. \u201cMeeting the people from the top firms was an amazing opportunity, especially just as I\u2019m beginning my accounting studies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A new accounting student from Russia, Elena Koroleva, found informal networking \u201cvery interesting\u201d and enjoyed meeting alumni and other members of top firms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was impressed with how highly these top firms value FIU and that some say they prefer recruiting an FIU student,\u201d she said. \u201cNow they know me and know my face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Koroleva and Ramjohn said Introduction to the Profession was extremely valuable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow kind of these people to take the time to answer questions from students,\u201d said Koroleva.<\/p>\n<p>The course is part of $520,000 in new funding by PwC to help domestic colleges and universities incorporate issues facing the accounting profession into their curricula.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe identified FIU as a school to participate,\u201d said Robert Conrad, Florida market sourcing leader at PwC. \u201cPwC has had a long-standing relationship with FIU and the School of Accounting. Mario de Armas (BACC \u201985), our Florida market managing partner, is an FIU graduate who seeks to support FIU whenever possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFIU has consistently been a source of talent valued by our firm,\u201d he said. \u201cWe view this as a long-term relationship where we will continue to invest our time and resources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMost of the problems I\u2019ve had, he\u2019s had, too. It was great to talk to somebody who had the challenges&#8212;and made it.\u201d Those words from incoming accounting student Muhammad Ramjohn describe his conversation with FIU alumnus Lazaro Alfaro (MACC \u201912, BACC \u201911) during a \u201cMeet the Employers\u201d networking event on June 15, 2012, part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[3903,738,1562,1748,1959,2388],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17540"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29763,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17540\/revisions\/29763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}