Baker Tilly
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Founded in 1931, Baker Tilly has offices from coast to coast and is one of the largest CPA firms in the U.S. Its interns are treated like full-time staff, and get access to seniors and managers—who are very willing to help. Full-time staff get formal training, on-the-job training, mentoring, and internal mobility options. The firm is strongly focused on philanthropy and diversity, and has new initiatives in place around D&I. Recently, it’s made great strides when it comes to gender diversity.
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Baker Tilly is ideally looking for personable, hardworking team players with strong critical-thinking skills. For students, the firm runs a rewarding internship program, providing interns with significant hands-on experience, many networking opportunities, and an accurate look at what it’s like work for the firm on a full-time basis. For its full-time staff, Baker Tilly provides extensive growth and development opportunities, including valuable trainings and mentoring and clear promotion paths.
During the busy season, the hours are typically long, and it can be difficult to find work/life balance and take time off. However, outside busy season, staff can achieve work/life balance, and vacation is easy to take. When it comes to quality of life, staff particularly ...
About the Company
Baker Tilly is an advisory, tax, and assurance firm headquartered in Chicago. It currently ranks among the top 10 largest accounting firms in the U.S. as measured by annual revenues, according to Inside Public Accounting. Baker Tilly has more than 6,700 team members and is the largest member firm of Baker Tilly International, the world’s 10th largest network. Baker Tilly International’s independent member firms have combined revenues of $5.62 billion.
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- “Use of vacation is very easy, but there are significant periods of time throughout year in which it is expected that PTO is not taken due to busy periods and client deadlines. This can sometimes be the majority of the year and leave three to four months for available PTO periods.”
- “The offering of ‘open time off’ is very attractive but not exactly realistic. When accounting for the amount of total and chargeable hours that are required on an annual basis, you end up not being able to ...
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- “Step 1: HR screening, phone call. Step 2: Virtual interview with your future team, Zoom/Teams call. Step 3: Offer decision, typically within 48 hours of step 2. The ideal candidate at the college graduate level is someone who is able to learn and adapt, as well as communicate openly and manage a workload of several ongoing projects at once (with different direct reports for each one). ‘We can teach you the accounting, but we can't teach you how to engage with us and learn.’ A big bonus is expressing ...
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