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Guide published to help members with career planning.


In these fast-changing times, it is difficult for busy professionals to recognize when new knowledge should be learned and skills should be enhanced--and to make sure their core competencies A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
  1. It provides customer benefits
  2. It is hard for competitors to imitate
  3. It can be leveraged widely to many products and markets.
 continue to meet the needs of the marketplace. A new 5-step guide, Take Charge of Your Career, helps current and aspiring CPAs with their career planning. The guide is available for download from the Financial Management Center at www.aicpa.org/CPACareerPath.

Created by the Business, Industry & Government team, Take Charge of Your Career makes the career planning process less daunting daunt  
tr.v. daunt·ed, daunt·ing, daunts
To abate the courage of; discourage. See Synonyms at dismay.



[Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, from Latin
. Anyone, at any point in his or her career, can use the guide's tips and tools to avoid career stagnation Stagnation

A period of little or no growth in the economy. Economic growth of less than 2-3% is considered stagnation. Sometimes used to describe low trading volume or inactive trading in securities.

Notes:
A good example of stagnation was the U.S. economy in the 1970s.
 and move closer to goals and aspirations. This free guide can also help you cope with changes, both planned and unplanned.

When used with the AICPA Competency COMPETENCY, evidence. The legal fitness or ability of a witness to be heard on the trial of a cause. This term is also applied to written or other evidence which may be legally given on such trial, as, depositions, letters, account-books, and the like.
     2.
 Self-Assessment Tool, available online at www.cpa2biz biz  
n. Informal
Business.


biz
Noun

Informal business

Noun 1.
.com/CAT, the guide can help today's and tomorrow's CPAs with their careers.

[email] www.aicpa.org/CPACareerPath(guide)

[email] www.cpa2biz.com/CAT (competency tool)
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Date:Jan 1, 2007
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