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  • How Colleges are Rethinking Career Prep for a New Generation

    By:
    Emma Slack-Jorgensen
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    May 21, 2025
    Career services are changing. Where they once focused on job fairs and resume reviews, many colleges are now teaching students how to write professional emails, handle workplace conversations, and manage expectations about time, effort, and accountability. 

  • Women Rewrite the Leadership Template

    By:
    Emma Slack-Jorgensen
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    May 19, 2025
    For women in leadership, especially those who don’t match the default image of a leader, perception management isn’t always optional. This often means confronting a specific bind: be competent and risk being seen as cold, or be likable and risk being underestimated.

  • NJCPA Proposes Another Path to Licensure with a Modification to the State's Statute

    By:
    Karen Sibayan
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    May 16, 2025
    As a recognition of the need to boost access to accounting, the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants has proposed an added pathway to CPA licensure in the state.

  • Survey Finds That Accountants Aspire to Be Entrepreneurs

    By:
    Karen Sibayan
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    May 15, 2025
    The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) has released its third annual Global Talent Trends 2025 where it found that more than  half of respondents—52 percent—indicating that they have career ambitions to be entrepreneurs, making it clear that many view the profession as a "natural springboard" to eventually run their own businesses.

  • AICPA, NASBA Approve New CPA Licensure Pathway Model Legislation

    By:
    Karen Sibayan
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    May 14, 2025
    The boards of directors of the AICPA and NASBA approved the expansion of accountancy’s model legislation or the Uniform Accountancy Act to include an added pathway to CPA licensure.

  • How AI Is Helping Firms Address the Pipeline Shortage

    By:
    Karen Sibayan
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    May 13, 2025
    The CPA pipeline is shrinking and career goals have changed. This is happening as AI becomes a strategic differentiator and not just an efficiency tool. How are these trends reinventing companies' staffing methods, skill development and leadership priorities? What will it take for CPAs to remain competitive in this evolving environment?

  • Beyond Pay: What Gen Z and Millennials Really Want

    By:
    Emma Slack-Jorgensen
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    May 12, 2025

    Deloitte's 2024 Gen Z and Millennial Survey gives a glimpse into two generations navigating a fast-changing workplace and making decisions that reflect their values. The worldwide survey contains responses from nearly 23,000 individuals in 44 nations, presents a picture of changing priorities.

  • Accounting Graduate Programs See Spike in Applications

    By:
    Emma Slack-Jorgensen
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    May 8, 2025
    Applications to U.S. master’s in accounting programs rose sharply in 2024, offering a hopeful sign for the profession’s ongoing talent shortage. 

  • The Workplace Agreement Isn’t Holding: What It Might Mean

    By:
    Emma Slack-Jorgensen
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    May 7, 2025
    When Amazon told employees in 2024 they’d need to be in the office five days a week instead of three, over 90% were unhappy with that change and more than 70% were thinking about quitting. 

  • Gen Z’s New Normal: The Rise of Micro-Shifts in 2025

    By:
    Emma Slack-Jorgensen
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    May 5, 2025

    A growing number of workers, especially Gen Z, are moving toward “micro-shifts,” or shifts lasting six hours or less. The trend reflects a broader shift in how younger generations think about work, flexibility and making ends meet. 
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