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Highest Paying Business Jobs for Undergraduates

Starting your career with a business major is a strategic move in today's dynamic job market. This qualification opens doors to many lucrative and impactful opportunities. And you'll find some of the highest-paying business jobs right here on Monster. Trends indicate a positive outlook for business careers. The job market is robust, with a wide ...

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How to Become an Insurance Adjuster

By Martina Mascali, Monster Contributor

If you are interested in exploring an interesting career within the insurance sector, read on to learn how to become an insurance adjuster. The “Insurance Labor Market Study” found that in the U.S. we are facing a massive talent shortage, and this is particularly true in the claims division. This means that if you decide to become an insurance adju...

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The Best-Paying Jobs in Finance

By Martina Mascali, Monster Contributor

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics employment in business and financial occupations is projected to grow (7%) slightly faster than the average for all occupations (5%). Employment projections for the best-paying jobs in finance are even more positive and most report a growth up to three to four times faster than the average. Find out ...

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The Long and Short of Wall Street Jobs

By Kathleen Walder, Monster Contributor

In the 1600s, the Dutch carved out a homestead there and named it New Amsterdam. They built a 12-foot wall that ran the width of what is now Manhattan between the East and Hudson Rivers. The wall deflected pirates and tribes, but not the British, who dismantled it in 1699. The wall fell, but the name stuck. Today, Wall Street encompasses eight b...

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Is Finance a Good Career Path?

By Camilla Andersson, Monster Contributor

Do you want to build a career around math, while also making good numbers? Then a job in finance might be right for you. Finance careers focus on managing and documenting finances for individuals, corporations, agencies, or organizations, as well as offering investment advice. So, is finance a good career path? The finance sector offers a range ...

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How to Become a Forensic Accountant

By Camilla Andersson, Monster Contributor

Do you have an inquisitive mind and want to conduct investigations but without dealing with gruesome crime scenes? Then a job as a forensic accountant might be right for you. This rapidly growing career field is no ordinary desk job, but more like the CSI of accounting. If you want to know how to become a forensic accountant, we have all the answer...

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How to Become a Financial Planner

By Kathleen Walder, Monster Contributor

If you’re a people person with money management skills and an interest in finance, financial planning may be the career for you. When you learn how to become a financial planner, you’ll have a career that U.S. News has consistently ranked in their annual list of the top five best business jobs. With some targeted coursework and insight into pers...

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How to Become an Accountant

By Dillon Price, Monster Contributor

Only two things in life are certain: death and taxes. One of these only happens once, but the latter is one of the many reoccurring financial challenges individuals and businesses face. This is one of many reasons why learning how to become an accountant will serve you well. Accounting is everywhere and there is a constant demand for it. We see ...

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How to Become an Actuary

By Dillon Price, Monster Contributor

Do you have a knack for analyzing and solving problems? Are you business oriented, self-motivated, and a math whiz? Learn how to become an actuary and put your skills to work. A career as an actuary comes with several challenges and rewards. There are vast opportunities to grow and work within a number of industries. In fact, the Bureau of Labor...

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How to Become a Mortgage Loan Officer

By Dillon Price, Monster Contributor

A mortgage isn’t just a financial loan. It gives a family a home, a restaurant owner a space to serve up their favorite recipes, and a small business owner a place to bring their vision to life. Very few people can pay for real estate property out-of-pocket. As a mortgage loan officer, it only takes a stroke of your pen to get someone on their way ...

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Accounting jobs hiring now

By Monster Staff

Ready to start your holiday shopping? Didn't think so. So it may seem a bit premature to start planning your end-of year search for seasonal jobs this early too, but for accounting jobs, now is the best time to start looking. Many large accounting firms and companies that match their fiscal year to the calendar year are already planning their hi...

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5 jobs that make working with numbers seem cool

By Steve Masters, Monster contributor

Let’s just go ahead and say it: Accounting jobs don’t have the coolest reputation. You’re probably picturing a buttoned-up professional who sits at a desk, dutifully crunching numbers and entering them into spreadsheets all the livelong day. Yes, that’s certainly a big part of the job, but who said it has to be boring? Accountants are integra...

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What Companies Are in the Finance Field? Your Guide to Finance Companies

By Dillon Price, Monster Contributor

You’ve likely heard the saying “Money makes the world go round.” The finance industry puts money in our pockets, keeps businesses intact, and gives us funding for all the essential things—and luxuries—we strive for. If you’re looking for job opportunities in this lucrative industry, read on to learn what companies are in the finance field and what ...

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It's Tax Day: What are the top tax-related job titles, universities and skills for job seekers who love April 15?

By Monster Staff

It’s April 15, otherwise known as the Internal Revenue Service’s tax filing deadline in the United States. Surely you’ve involved yourself in sorting out your own taxes — and if you looked for a job last year, you may even be entitled to a few interesting deductions — but have you ever thought about a career in the industry that deals with tax s...

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Three Great Places to Start Your Insurance Career

By Dona DeZube, Monster Finance Careers Expert

Looking for a solid career that won’t require a four-year college degree? The insurance industry may be the right place for you. Armed with only a high school diploma or a two-year associate degree, you’ll find plenty of entry-level sales agent. At Mutual of Omaha, most of the entry-level positions for high school graduates are in the customer-s...

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Finance and Accounting Career Advice

By Monster Contributor

Check out Monster's career advice articles especially for accounting, finance and banking professionals. Find out about the many careers paths in these fields and get advice on finding a job, tailoring your resume, preparing for an interview, learning about training and certification options, and more. Learn more about how to become an accountan...

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Finance and Accounting Workers Love Their Jobs, Monster.com Survey Finds

By Monster Contributor

By Jeffrey Quinn Monster Contributing Writer Finance professionals are among the most satisfied workers, a recent survey by Monster found. More than one third (36%) of finance and accounting professionals expressed satisfaction with all aspects of their job. Accountants, management analysts, market research analysts and marketing specialists...

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Elder Care Accountants Manage Baby Boomers' Finances

By Dona DeZube, Monster Finance Careers Expert

With the oldest Baby Boomers hitting their 60s, a multibillion-dollar niche in accounting is developing to help seniors and their adult children plan for the future care of those who can no longer live independently. Elder care accounting services range from simple estate planning to more complete services such as managing accounts, paying bills, r...

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Where the Mortgage Jobs Are Now

By Dona DeZube, Monster Finance Careers Expert

If you’re one of the nearly 94,000 people working in mortgage finance who got laid off in the first eight months of 2008, don’t despair. There are opportunities for you both within the lending industry and outside it, experts say. With Wall Street pulling out of the subprime and jumbo mortgage markets and dozens of mortgage banking firms declari...

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Accounting Careers Go Global

By John Rossheim, Monster Senior Contributing Writer

When corporations expand overseas, they need more than language lessons, plane tickets and a suitcase of foreign currency. These businesses must mind trade regulations, pay taxes in multiple national jurisdictions and carry out fundamental accounting processes like audits and financial reporting that, ideally, should be transparent to the world's c...

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Insurance Industry Fueled by Finance, Accounting Professionals

By Dona DeZube, Monster Finance Careers Expert

The financial complexity and sophistication of the insurance industry make it an exciting place for accountants and financial professionals to work. “Insurance companies, by virtue of having thousands of small transactions, are numbers-oriented companies,” says Kathleen Enright, assistant vice president of financial reporting for a large insurance ...

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8 Healthcare Finance Jobs That Are in High Demand

By Dillon Price, Monster Contributor

From routine physician checkups to the development of emerging medical treatments, finance is involved in every corner of the healthcare industry. When you work in healthcare finance, you’ll play an important role in ensuring that funds are properly allocated to meet people’s medical needs and keep the hospital or medical office running. More sp...

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Banking's Sweet Spot: Mortgage Servicing

By Dona DeZube, Monster Finance Careers Expert

With residential foreclosure rates at record highs, Congress creating borrower bail-out plans and nonprofits beefing up their consumer credit counseling staffs, mortgage servicing is definitely the sweet spot of the mortgage banking employment market. "There are certainly needs for experienced loan workout personnel," says Jim Boghos, president ...

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Budget Analyst Careers in the Public Sector

By Dona DeZube, Monster Finance Careers Expert

Want to use your Excel skills for the good of all citizens? Consider a career in budget analysis. Although this job title conjures up images of accounting and auditing, budget analysis is policy work. Government budget analysts help elected officials divvy up trillions of tax dollars each year. "You can really have a positive influence," explains ...

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Play Ball as a Sports Accountant

By Dona DeZube, Monster Finance Careers Expert

You could say that Bowie Baysox Controller Christy Hoos was born into her job. She grew up in a sports-obsessed family, and her father was a professional baseball player. A friend of a friend helped her find her first sports accounting job, working for the Baltimore Orioles, and her love of sports has kept her in the game. "It's more interesting to...

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Tips for finding your first finance job

By Dona DeZube, Monster contributor

You're about to graduate with a finance, accounting, economics, or business degree. How do you parlay that achievement into a great job? Just as you did when you wrote all those term papers, the first step is to pick a topic, or in this case, a niche, to help you find finance jobs that will interest you. Finance degrees usually lead to jobs with...

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Entertainment Accounting

By John Rossheim, Monster Senior Contributing Writer

Lights! Camera! Audit! In the multibillion-dollar entertainment industry, accountants have found a glitzy niche providing financial services to Hollywood studios, production companies and a whole universe of artists and technicians -- from box-office superstars and music-industry moguls to truck drivers and B-movie bit players. With some conn...

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Land a Finance Job in the EU

By Dona DeZube, Monster Finance Careers Expert

Finance professionals who want to experience life and work in another country will find that three different paths can lead to a job in the European Union (EU): Working in the US for a foreign-headquartered company, and then transferring to the home office overseas. Leveraging skills in demand in the EU. Using your ancestral ties ...

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Forensic Economists

By Dona DeZube, Monster Finance Careers Expert

How would you like to get paid $300,000 a year to sit around thinking about the value of human life? Believe it or not, that's exactly what forensic economists do -- they help attorneys and insurance companies place an economic value on losses of life, limb or business. It's not an easy field to break into, and the salary you start at will likely ...

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How to Become a Quantitative Analyst

By Dillon Price, Monster Contributor

Let’s face it—most business operators and individuals are in the dark when it comes to financial trends, forecasting, and decision-making. That’s why they rely on skilled quantitative analysts who always have an ear to the ground when it comes to financial markets. If you excel at working with numbers, data, and probability, that could be you. But ...

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Become a Portfolio Manager

By Brendan Moynihan, Monster Contributing Writer

If you want to become a portfolio manager, you'll need to do more than don a suit and pick up a copy of the Wall Street Journal. What Is a Portfolio Manager? A portfolio manager makes investment decisions using money other people have placed under his control. Portfolio managers, who typically work for bank trust departments and insurance companies...

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How to Become a Tax Preparer

By Dillon Price, Monster Contributor

Tax season is one of the most dreaded times of year for many taxpayers. But for tax preparers, the opportunities are boundless. When you learn how to become a tax preparer, you’ll help clients avoid penalties, save money on their tax bills, and increase their refunds. In a nutshell, you take the frustration and confusion out of tax season. Tax p...

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Reverse Mortgage Lending Jobs

By Dona DeZube, Monster Finance Careers Expert

If you're working in the mortgage business and looking for a new challenge, try working backwards -- in the reverse mortgage end of the industry. The increased volume in these types of loans, fueled in part by an increase in the number of elderly homeowners, has created openings in the field for originators, processors, underwriters and secondary m...

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How women succeed in finance

By Dona DeZube, Monster Finance Careers Expert

If you're a woman thinking of pursuing a finance career, there's good news and bad news. The good news is you're likely to make more money than in a traditionally female career. The bad news is, you're unlikely to make as much as your male peers. "Even though there may not be equality, there are relatively high compensation levels for women in the ...

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How to Become a Stockbroker

By Dillon Price, Monster Contributor

Warren Buffet once said, “Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.” For many individuals and businesses, the lines between bear and bull markets can get blurred, resulting in losses. When you learn how to become a stockbroker, you help clients make wise investments and build lucrative financial portfolios—and earn yourself a pretty penny at t...