109 credits in 10 months

[Jenniferinfl]

To get a management job with no accounting experience and a degree is not going to be easy to do - it's one of those fields where you have to start, maybe not at the bottom, but lower than management level to get the experience to move up.  I've never heard of anyone who came straight out of school with an accounting degree and made more than about $50k.  Even with a Master's, if you want to be a CPA, you're going to have to work a bazillion hours at a local firm to get those hours in, my friends who did that traveled extensively for about 2 years as auditors at medium-to-large sized companies before they got to make the big bucks.

So, my advice would be to maybe set your sights a little lower, think accounting analyst or something there - middle of the road, above AP clerk but below any type of management role, and you may be more successful in landing something.

I'm sorry, I wasn't clear.. lol I'm not applying for accounting management roles, RETAIL management roles. Like I said, tough market around here. I've been a retail manager before, managed up to 17 people- but, I'm no longer young and blonde and thus the roles are harder to land now with a degree at age 36 then they were at 23 with no degree.. lol I'm just applying for the inventory manager in a retail store role that I had before I got laid off during the recession. I'm still trying to get back just to that level. 

I haven't managed to land a single accounting interview here. Even an accounts payable role where you aren't even doing real accounting still wants three years of experience and a degree and pays $12 an hour. Realistically, I would have to move to break into accounting. It's not for lack of trying- I've applied to 236 jobs in the last 3 months. I'll keep applying- but, there just isn't a place for me. 

The closest I got to an accounting interview was Tax Research Specialist at ADP. They have a corporate recruiter who does the phone screenings. I interviewed with them, took an assessment and they really liked me. They selected me for a local interview, but, local office kept jerking me around and basically refused to interview me. Corporate called back and apologized, but, they couldn't get the local office to interview me.