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HSS Job Description

As a High School Speaker, you are expected to promote a positive awareness of the accounting profession among high school students and their teachers. 

  1. Build a relationship with your school.
    • Encourage high school teachers/administrators to use the Accounting for Success program as a resource for presentations and other events.
  2. Have contact with the school.
    • Identify the person within your school who will be your main contact and advocate.
    • Check in occasionally with your main contact person and other teachers/administrators.
    • Work with your main contact to identify the optimal classes and clubs and the teachers responsible for those to reach the target market of college-bound students in each school.
  3. Provide accounting career information.
    • Provide resources and the most accurate information about the accounting profession to guidance counselors, teachers, and students.
    • Make presentations, participate in career day or career fairs, arrange job shadowing.  (Get assistance from other CPAs/peers as necessary).
    • Keep the overall focus - address the importance of the accounting profession, teach basic financial literacy, clarify common misconceptions, and highlight career paths within the accounting profession.
  4. Be accountable.
    • Assist the FICPA in finding a suitable replacement for yourself if you are no longer able to work with your assigned high school.
    • Keep an Activity Log and be able to communicate and post reports on-line to the FICPA.