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Students at CAAP Graduation Party

Students at CAAP Graduation Party

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Eighty students graduated from the CAAP program in 2017 and many of this year’s graduates were hired before they completed the program.

2016-17 CAAP program

CAAP Students enjoying the summer party

Eighty students graduated from the CAAP program in 2017 (down from 114 per year in 2016, 2015, and 2014). Over percent of this year’s graduates joined us from UC-Davis. Many of this year’s graduates were hired before they completed the program.

In addition to their regular class meetings, this year’s CAAP students participated in several events and workshops that took place either between the morning and evening sessions in the summer program or during the lunch break in the weekend program. This year’s extracurricular workshops and events (from February 2017 through September 2017) included the following:

  • Resume Workshop, presented by Jon Sakurai-Horita (held during both the summer and weekend programs)
  • Resume Critiques, provided by Jon Sakurai-Horita (during both the summer and weekend programs)
  • Networking and Career Fair Workshop, presented by Jon Sakurai-Horita (held during both the summer and weekend programs)
  • Interview Skills Workshop, presented by Jon Sakurai-Horita (held during both the summer and weekend programs)
  • Passing the CPA Exam, hosted by Becker Professional Education (held during both the summer and weekend programs)
  • Passing the CPA Exam, hosted by Roger CPA Review (held during both the summer and weekend programs)
  • Firm Info Session and Career Fair Preparation, presented by BPM (held during the summer program)
  • Firm Info Session and Career Planning Preparation, presented by EY (held during the summer program)
  • Firm Info Session and Social Media Recruiting, presented Novogradac (held during the summer program)
  • Firm Info Session and Social, presented by Standish Management (held during the summer program)

This year’s CAAP Career Fair was held on August 1 in Locatelli Center. Fourteen firms participated in this year’s career fair:

Andersen Tax

Hayashi Wayland

PwC

BPM

KPMG

Sensiba San Filippo

BDO

Moss Adams

Standish Management

Deloitte

Novogradac

True Partners

EY

Petrinovich Pugh

 

Feedback from CAAP certificate students continues to be highly positive.


CAAP Weekend Graduates

Wahab Afzal Timothy Furlong Vivian Livo Paul Stanfield
Guillermo Amoretty Teddy Todorova Nicole A. Mitchel Alexander Tinoco
Lexi Amundsen Leny M Hernandez Arvind Mohan Kathy Tran
Ryan James Barry Akbar Khan Jiayi Ning Simin Wang
Grace L Carpenter Ankit Kumar Lawrence Michael Parola Jr. Cody James Wong
Joyce Ann Cortez John Le Jagdeep S. Randhawa Alfred Wu
Danny Ek Christy Po-Ki Leung Leslie Joy Santiago Connie Yen
Mohammad Moeed Farooq Tony Li Angela Ye-tak So Sharon Yu
Linda Fung Ng Xinyun Liu Nataliya Soloveva Liya Zhu

 

CAAP Summer Graduates

Tamara Adele Aboumrad  Minh T Doan Genbert Lozano Christopher Thomas Robinson
Charlotte M. Andreen  Janelle Marie Ferreira Serena Lui Patrick Bill Simon
Agnes J Bailey Nicole Gelfand Teresa Maloney  Sahem Thomas
Alexander Benedict  Darin Taylor Gilmore Richard Pierre Merkle Linh Tran
Gurpreet Bhandal Agnes Gonzalez-Dalmau Justin José Mungal Ryan Joseph Trombetta
Hanna Erika Biagini-Lee Scott Hogland Huong Thanh Nguyen Dylan Frederick Wenker
Jacob Boyd Vishal Joseph Seimin Oh Michael Samuel Takeshi Wong
John Arthur Brunemeier Sam Lai Bhavini Pachauri Cynthia Yang
Emily Sau-Yi Chan Naum Lapida Justine Pearl Sabalvaro Rui (Rae) Zhang
Karena Sydney Chang  Jonathan Junyin Lee Danielle Alyssa Petruzzelli Shuo Zhang
Albert Cheung Samantha Licea Elizabeth Power  
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