if your staff recruiting effort is overlooking social media, then some of the best candidates may be overlooking you.
new college graduates are embracing social media as a job-search tool, according to a new study. approximately 41 percent of 2012 college graduates in the market for a job are using social media to help them land one.
marking the fourth consecutive month of decline, the bookkeeping and accounting industry contracted in june, shedding 4,200 full-time employees from may, ending at total employment of 954,800 workers and professionals, according to new data available to 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间. still, june’s … continued
even as firms continue 15-month expansion trend.
hint: it’s not about how smart they are or hard they work.
by rick telberg
how do you spot the hidden rock stars on your staff?
and what do up-and-coming tax, accounting and finance professionals need to know to get ahead in today’s profession?
these aren’t idle questions. many firms and individuals are struggling with these issues right now. but don’t take it from me. just listen to the decision-makers from a dozen firms i met with in a milwaukee hotel recently. the mission: learn how to deal with a looming new staff shortage. some took away solid action plans. “our firm,” said one, “is trying to develop our rock stars and this showed me we need to be doing more.” another said, “excellent! it gave us the details and the ‘how-to.’”
interestingly, the milwaukee group’s conclusions and recommendations closely parallel our related research findings. so we can be fairly certain that we’ve obtained some of the profession’s favorite strategies.
you could probably adapt one of our methods for your firm. in milwaukee, we divided the group into two teams, the green team and the blue team. after some preliminary coaching, each team hammered out a list of the top five talent indicators – the clues in an employee’s behaviors and attitudes that demonstrate the highest likelihood of the best roi for a firm’s time, energy, and money in training, coaching and mentoring. then the group filled several flip chart pages with their lists and hashed them out with each other. after identifying the key indicators, we moved on to identifying the best strategies for recruiting, grooming and retaining top talent.
by far, the top predictive indicator across all firms is the trait, “they are always trying to improve.” it comes in a few flavors or variations. for instance, the green team at the milwaukee strategy meeting favored a passion for “continuous learning.” the blue team preferred, “they do ‘extra credit’ – things that the partners wouldn’t normally expect from someone at their level.” but they add up to the same thing.
the tax, accounting and bookkeeping services industry is cracking a new record high in persons employed full-time.
the nation’s economy as a whole added 115,000 new jobs in april pushing the unemployment down by one-tenth of one percentage point to 8.1%.
but employers in the tax, accounting, payroll, and bookkeeping industries added 2,000 new jobs last month, marking the ninth month in a row of growth for public practice, according to 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 analysis. read more →
wrong question. right question: what’s the rop?
while cpa firms struggle through a shake-out. read more →
2011 finishes at new high. average hourly earnings across all employees in the accounting and bookkeeping slipped slightly in the latest month, but rang in a solid gain year to year. with more than 970,000 workers, the bureau of labor … continued
20 years of ups and downs, now up again. the number of people employed by cpa firms in the u.s. has topped 400,000 for the first time since last february, according to the latest data available to 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间. total … continued
what recession? more accountants with jobs … ever.
by rick telberg
in the same jobs report that drove the nasdaq to an 11-year peak, the accounting and bookkeeping sector recorded more people employed in the industry than ever before.
cpa firms account for 2 in 3 new jobs.
the nation’s tax, accounting, payroll and bookkeeping businesses added 3,100 employees in december, bringing the industry’s total headcount to 943,100, according to the latest government data obtained by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间. read more →
even as cpa firms shrink by 1,100.
the nation’s accounting and bookkeeping sector accounted for 2,000 of the 80,000 new jobs created in october, according to new preliminary and seasonally-adjusted data from the u.s. labor department.
for the nation, the jobs gain pushed the unemployment rate down to 9.0% from 9.1%.
for the accounting and bookkeeping sector, october’s performance represents a third straight month of gains and a year-to-year gain of 60,800 jobs, bringing the industry’s payroll to 932,200 employees.
index hits recessionary levels.
a leading gauge of confidence among finance and accounting professionals has hit its lowest level since early 2009.
but 61 percent are confident in the future of their current employer, up from 56 percent in the previous quarter.