By Derek Berezdivin (MS Accountancy ’16) Derek Berezdivin is the former Executive Vice President of the Zicklin Graduate Accounting Society. He will be graduating after this semester and he is seeking full-time positions in public accounting. Accounting societies at Zicklin are great. Besides giving you a community, it gives you great access to recruiters and professionals, a strong network, and a way to differentiate yourself on your résumé, which recruiters at Baruch regularly admit to looking specifically for. But this post is not about WHY you would want to join ; it ’ s about HOW. Along with having been accepted into one of these societies myself, I was recently part of the team that screened candidates and helped choose new Board members. I have boiled down the important steps to take, the way our interview process works, and what almost anybody could do to get in. 1st stage: The General Meeting and volunteering The first step to obtaining membership is t