Student career aspirations and perceptions: The case of Israeli accounting students

Danziger, Nira; Eden, Yoram

doi:10.1080/06939280600579412

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“…These results are consistent with those of other studies and suggest that most of graduates/students did not have interest in joining accounting firms [10]. Only the Big Four companies reported not having a problem in recruiting staff.…”

Section: Difficulties In Recruiting Accounting Graduatessupporting

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The Supply Shortage of Accounting Graduates in Indonesia: The Public Accounting Firms Perspective

Suryani¹

2018

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Although having abundant accounting graduates, Indonesia has a very low number of public accountants and accounting firms. This study investigates the difficulties of public accounting firms in Indonesia to recruit accounting staff. Partners or human resource managers from 35 public accounting firms were interviewed, and it was found that the majority of accounting firms facing difficulties in recruiting accounting staff both in quantity and the quality of fresh graduate. Three major problems were identified as the factors contributed to this difficulty. First, a low salary compared with other occupational streams. Second, the misinformation about the workload in public accounting firms. Third, students' negative perception of public accounting profession which could be caused by the accounting education.

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Section: Difficulties In Recruiting Accounting Graduatessupporting

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The Supply Shortage of Accounting Graduates in Indonesia: The Public Accounting Firms Perspective

Suryani¹

2018

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“…Nonetheless, perceptions of preferred employer can change over the period of study (Danziger & Eden, 2006). However, whilst earnings potential appears to encourage individuals to undertake a business degree in the first place, Itkin (2008) feels that the broad spectrum of occupations covered by 'business' can make any decision regarding potential career direction difficult.…”

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Flexibility, compromise and opportunity: Students' perceptions of balancing part-time work with a full-time business degree

Evans

Gbadamosi

Richardson

2014

The International Journal of Management Education

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Amidst the growing importance of employability in higher education, this study explores and identifies the motivations behind full-time university students engaging in part-time employment during term time, how students cope with simultaneously managing the two activities and how part-time working influences their career aspirations. Semi-structured interviews are used to obtain data from a sample of 30 business degree students at a UK university.The findings confirm previous studies, that financial necessity is a primary driver of parttime work, but also reveal a complex set of supplementary reasons, that either satisfies a long-term vision, or a more immediate need for development or self-gratification. Furthermore, most students compromise the longer term benefit of study against the more immediate financial gains offered by work, resulting in an accepted lowering of academic performance as a consequence. The majority of the students did not see a connecting opportunity between their part-time work and future career, and were uncertain regarding future career direction.This study extends the use of qualitative methods in this area, which is dominated by survey research, while also extending extant findings to the career aspirations of students, which is hitherto largely unexplored.

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“…Also, the number of students attending Higher Education has increased. Thus, the number of individuals who pursue an accounting career (Ahmed et al, 1997;Chen et al, 2008;Danziger & Eden, 2006;Mauldin et al, 2000;Sugahara et al, 2006Sugahara et al, , 2008Tan & Laswad, 2006) is a matter of concern.…”

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Generational Approach to Factors Influencing Career Choice in Accounting

Hsiao

Nova

2016

Rev. contab. finanç.

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This research aims to grasp which factors influence the generation Y to choose accounting as its career. A significant decline in the number of candidates willing to pursue a career as accountant has been observed abroad - USA, Australia, and Japan. However, in other countries - Brazil, Singapore, and Hong Kong - the opposite has been observed. Another issue is the decline in educational qualification of those pursuing an accounting career, contributing in a way that many talented students change their career choice. This may be explained by the fact that people tend to believe accounting is an exact science, full of calculations, boring, and not very creative, bringing an unbalance between the traits an individual should have according to the job market and those perceived by society. In order to give a contribution to literature concerning the factors that influence the generation Y in its career choice, a goal of this research was conducting an exploratory study where some hypotheses were formulated to support the discussion. We used Mannheim's Generational Theory and the literature on career choice. Data collection was carried out using a questionnaire, based on Schwartz's Portrait Value Questionnaire and Germeijs and Verschueren's Student Choice Task Inventory, adapted through focus group interview. Data were fully collected online and the sample consisted of 665 subjects. The results showed that people who chose accounting as their career were influenced by factors such as creativity, independence, challenging and dynamic environment, job security, money-making, job availability, and other significant people - friends and teachers. The subjects were not influenced by social factors, such as working with people and making contributions to society and family. They wish for more autonomy, creativity, and flexibility at work, and people still care about job security and money-making.

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Student career aspirations and perceptions: The case of Israeli accounting students

Cited by 29 publications

References 24 publications

The Supply Shortage of Accounting Graduates in Indonesia: The Public Accounting Firms Perspective

The Supply Shortage of Accounting Graduates in Indonesia: The Public Accounting Firms Perspective

Flexibility, compromise and opportunity: Students' perceptions of balancing part-time work with a full-time business degree

Generational Approach to Factors Influencing Career Choice in Accounting

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