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* Skills and Abilities - What are the skills and abilities needed for careers in Accounting

* Potential Career Paths - a list of possible career path and links to potential employers

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Skills and Abilities
  • Research skills
  • Analytical and critical thinking
  • Collecting & organizing historical data
  • Presentation skills
  • Reading and writing complex material
  • Identifying and evaluating records of past events, ideas and facts
  • Compiling research reports
  • Examining evidence
  • Understanding/interpreting past and present
  • Identifying and evaluating records of past events, ideas, and facts
  • Analyzing impact of problems on society
  • Developing/generating ideas and projects
  • Explaining present by referring to the past

Potential Career Paths
Career Area Employment Settings Sample Employers & Internship Sites
MUSEUMS
Archives
Education
Administration
Curatorial
Conservation
Sales
Publications
Development
Public Relations
Exhibit Design/Prep
Tours
Achives & libraries

State museums, parks, & historic sites
National Archives and Records

Albany Institute of History and Art

New York State Museum


American Museum of Natural History

The Paley Center for Media


Troy's Riverspark Visitor Center

New York State Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation
HUMAN SERVICES
Case Management Community agencies Occupations, Inc.
Research Health care centers Albany Medical Center
BUSINESS
Human Resources & Affirmative Action Any company Chase Manhattan Bank
Consulting Management consulting firms
Environmental consulting firms
Deloitte Consulting
Management Any company Enterprise Rent-A-Car

Macy's
Buying Retail companies, including department, drug, & grocery Lord & Taylor
Market Research Companies or market research firms MapInfo

The NPD Group
Promotions/Marketing Any organization WQBK-FM
Sales Insurance companies
Real estate
State Farm Insurance
SERVICE & EDUCATION
Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL) Language schools
Corporations
Park's Overseas Personnel Service
Teaching Colleges or universities
School districts
Teach For America
Development Non-profit agencies Centro Civico of Amsterdam
Service/Volunteerism Government programs American Foreign Service Association

Americorps


Peace Corps
University Student Services Admissions Offices

Alumni Offices

International Student Svcs

Women's Centers
Various
Training & Development Corporations or training firms M&T Bank
ARTS - MEDIA - ENTERTAINMENT
Web pages (content or design) Web design firms
Specific companies
Spiral Design Studio
Journalism Newspapers & magazines Times Union

Biography Magazine

Metroland
Broadcasting Television & radio stations CBS News

The History Channel

The Charlie Rose Show
TRAVEL AND TOURISM
Planning Tourism agencies International Center of the Capital Region

AAA

Chambers of Commerce
Tour Guides/Directors Tour/travel companies (domestic and international) New York Apple Tours
Hospitality Hotels, motels, restaurants, cruise lines Hilton Hotels
Flight Attendant Airlines American Airlines
PUBLIC RELATIONS
Media Liaison Public relations firms
Corporate PR departments
Sawchuck, Brown Assoc.

CSEA - Communications Department
Special/Cultural Events Coordinator Entertainment facilities Times Union Center
PUBLISHING
Editing/Writing Magazines

Newspapers



Publishing companies
Random House

Metroland

Albany Student Press

Delmar Publishers

Technical Writing Companies with a technical focus Lockheed Martin
Sales
Promotion/Marketing
Newspapers
Magazines

Publishing companies
Metroland


Delmar Publishers

BANKING & FINANCE
Systems Analysis Consulting firms Deloitte Consulting
Research Market research firms
Consulting firms
Buxton Co.

Charles River Associates

LECG, Inc.
Financial Analysis/Planning Financial services firm
Insurance companies
Salomon Smith Barney

First Investors
Credit Lending Commercial banks
Regional banks
Savings & loan associations

The Bank of New York

POLITICS-LAW-GOVERNMENT
Service Government programs Peace Corps

Americorps

American Foreign Service Association
Historic Preservation Historic sites Peebles Island Resource Center
Political Campaigns National, state, county, & city election campaigns New York County Republican or Democratic Committees
Staff Support National & state legislators NYS Assembly & Senate

Albany Semester Program
Political Organizations Republican/Democratic National Committee League of Women Voters of NYS
Public Policy/Lobbying/Research Interest groups People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)

NYPIRG
Legal Services Local, state, or federal agencies Albany County Public Defender
Alternative Sentencing Program
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