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By: Intelligent Speculator | Carnival of Financial Planning 09-18-09

Intelligent Speculator | Carnival of Financial Planning 09-18-09 — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:38:32 +0000

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By: Paul Kamp

Paul Kamp — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:54:05 +0000

I've heard from some of my accounting friends that I-banking types have started to be hired into accounting positions at some of the Big 4. Perhaps their dominance of the article has to do with the scarcity of positions that arise from this situation? .-= Paul Kamp´s last blog ..Part II: Does Increasing Tax Rates Increase Revenue? =-.

By: Darwin

Darwin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:49:37 +0000

Hi, yes, the first sentence of the article laid out that the survey was for “new graduates looking to launch a career”, so without changing the title, url, etc., figured the opening sentence was clear enough; sorry for any confusion.

Thanks for the note on Google Jim, I missed that (I get the print version too!).

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:22:15 +0000

Billy, in fact the BusinessWeek article referenced is titled "Best Places to Launch a Career". So this isn't "best place to work" period, but instead best place for a new college grad to start work. That is definitely a different measure. .-= Jim´s last blog ..Consolidate Your Airline Miles & Hotel Points =-.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:15:10 +0000

Google chose not to participate in the survey. So thats why they aren’t in the list. I read the print copy of the article in Businessweek magazine and somewhere buried in the full article they said so.

Looking at their methodology it seems that they just averaged together the scores they got on 3 survey’s. About 50% of the total score they give is based on just reputation. 25% from student preference (before working at company) and 25% on college career services opinions (3rd party people who don’t work at company). The other 50% is based on employer survey about pay, benefits and training programs. So a well known company with decent pay would likely float to the top. This kind of metric would be biased to large multinational companies that everyone knows about.
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