What To Do During recruitment?

Not surprisingly, most interns are hired during accounting recruitment events.
So you really have to go to those career fairs.

I will tell you some insight on what exactly recruiters like to see during the recruitment.

First of all your appearance.
Go to Man's Warehouse and buy a nice $500 dollar dark suite, dark blue tie, and s white or blue shirt. Make sure you look professional, that includes your hair, handshake, smiles, everything. If you don't wear suite, you don't look professional... remember that. It is important for any accounting internships

Before talking to the recruiter, make sure you know if you are interested in a full time position or an internship. Don't just say, I am interested in both. But it is always better to say that you are interested in an internship unless you already had an internship with them because 90% of their new hires went through an internship program with the very same company. So you do the math.

Also, absolutely make sure which division you want to work for. Are you interested in Audit, Tax or transfer pricing or whatever. Don't just say that your interested both in Audit and Tax Accounting Internships or that you are interested in Audit but would also consider Tax. Because this means that you don't know what you want from your career and that you are not goal oriented.

Basically make sure which location you are applying for and for what time (summer/winter). It is always better to check what they actually are offering. Because Delloite might be hiring only two Audit accounting interns for their Chicago location from your school.
And you say that you want to go for Tax, or that you want to work in New York... You will not get anything.

So basically do the research, be prepared and good luck.
There are more beneficial posts, so keep on reading.

Good luck on your search for accounting internships

What are Big Four Companies looking for in Accounting Interns

I haven't written for a while but this is the most updated post with up to date information what qualities Big Four Companies are looking for when hiring interns.

Most Important is Of course GPA
And I am not talking about your overall GPA but your Accounting GPA. Your Accounting GPA has to be high. Of course how it should be depends on the University which you attend.
But most of the Big Four companies won't even look at your resume if you don't have above 3.4
So get that GPA up if you really want to get accounting internships

Also important is the Leadership Skills.
Do you hold any officer positions in any student run organizations, if not, then you should.
Join Accounting organizations of your school, stay after organizational meetings and talk to the president of the organization or/and the adviser and ask them if you can become an officer. This will look really good on your resume.

Previous Work/Internship experience.
Of course if you interned with some really good company, then even if you don't have a high GPA, you might still get the internship. But if you worked as an accounting clerk for a small company, it is not as important as your resume. Still having some experience will look good on your resume.

Community involvement - is surprisingly also important.
Do some volunteering and make sure your bring that during recruitment events or in an actual interview.

I wish you luck on finding your accounting Internship