There are a lot of universities in Indonesia, offering accounting subject. Want to see the universities in Indonesia, kindly visit the official website of Dirjen Pendidikan Tinggi. One university can release hundreds of accountant graduates. Thus, in one year, there will be thousands of new fresh accounting graduates. That is great.
In the other side, there are still many job opportunities for accounting graduate. I try to count the job opportunities displayed in Kompas today. I find 47 advertisements. It is not included the position that is available for graduate from every field of study. It is only accounting opportunity (including tax officer, finance staff and auditor). As a note, I do not read the line advertisement, I just read the column advertisement. Reading line advertisement can make my eyes blurred. Old eyes. Kompas is one of the Indonesian national newspapers. Every Saturday in Kompas, we will find many job opportunities for accounting graduate …. Job opportunities in Kompas do not cover up all the opportunities in Indonesia, it just part of it. Only, usually, big company will choose to advertise through Kompas, even then they also do advertise through other media. Local companies or small businesses in the province, usually choose to advertise in the local mass media or radio. Thus, Kompas is only part of all job opportunity available for new graduate.
Even then, still many of accounting graduate is jobless. How come? Even there are many job opportunity, but I guess the total job available is still lower than the total graduates every year. Thus, the company have better position to choose the best among those who applied. The competition is high and the good company is only interested with high competent accountant that is ready to enter the carrier world. Competent accountant is easy to be understood, it means that our brain should be full with A until Z of accounting. They will check our competency through our GPA (grade point average) in our transcript (I guess, three above is safe already).
Then, the part two is “ready to enter the carrier world.” This part is little difficult for me. As a student, I have more freedom, what I will wear, what time I will get up, whether I will go to campus or just walking around not attending the class, and many others. Look like little wild. The carrier world is so much different. If we choose to work in a company, it means we choose to submit ourselves to the company rule and policy. As a professional, they will ask us to come on time, to work overtime without grumbling and mumbling, to work hard, quick and efficient, to use a professional dress and also to learn something new quickly. Yes, even our grade is three points, since the first second we enter the company, we have to learn many new things. We have to learn from just small things, like filing thousand of documents, receiving a phone call, making a polite call, writing a polite email to external party or to our boss, preparing a meeting, leading a meeting; until a big thing, like learn new knowledge, learn new computer applications and many others.
Ready to enter the carrier world?
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