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#RI-69f83ee1·5 months ago·
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[0 YoE, Public Tax Accounting, Unemployed, United States/Remote]

Graduating with my MS in Accounting next week, been applying for jobs, no bites.

I have talked to so many people to revise my resume. This is as good as it's ever been and I still don't get any callbacks. I think it's just because of my lack of experience, and there's not really anything I can do about that. It's like every job wants 2-3+ YoE and they don't care if you try to frame a busy season as a full year and 1-2 years of a master's program as experience. Also, a recruiter on LinkedIn told

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