staffing & recruiting
how to solve the big disconnect in talent management

can you articulate your firm’s employee value proposition?
by marc rosenberg in collaboration with jeremy wortman, ph.d., owner of hrd initiatives
cpa firm staff: managing your #1 asset
“executives spend more time on managing people and making people decisions than on anything else – and they should. no other decisions are so long-lasting in their consequences or so difficult to unmake. and yet, by and large, executives make poor promotion and staffing decisions. at most, one-third of such decisions turn out right, one-third are minimally effective and a third are outright failures. in no other area of management would we put up with such miserable performance.” – peter drucker
more: what relevance means for staffing in accounting | how accounting staffing has changed
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what is talent management?
talent management is an umbrella term for how firms acquire talent, engage people in their firms, develop their skills and retain them. among many things, it addresses
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three ways to thrive with limited capacity

turn the staffing shortage into a new opportunity.
by frank stiteley
the relentless cpa
charles dickens had to be writing about the accounting profession when he wrote, “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
clients are plentiful. i met a new client coming out of the restroom at our office complex. we get four to five inquiries a day – out of tax season. during tax season, we turned down four out of five prospective clients.
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staff are not plentiful – at least not good ones. i’m getting two or three resumes a day, but they’re the warm body sort most of us learned the hard way not to hire during the pandemic. you’ve seen these resumes too. they are people with six employers in eight years. you are certain to be number seven in nine years. they claim eight years of experience, but you can see from their job history that it’s really two years of experience repeated four times. and – they want $100k for those two years of real experience.
tax and accounting jobs and salaries show strength


hourly earnings fluctuate.
by beth bellor
卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research
despite a slowing increase in employment for the u.s. economy in general, the nation’s tax and accounting sector is improving on most fronts, marking more than four years of solid year-over-year gains.
more: new study: strong and steady growth for accountant jobs and salaries | more big firms shut their doors to new college grads | seven enticements to keep talent on board | payroll leads job gains in tax & accounting sector
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to be sure, tax and accounting employment nudged slightly down in july, according to the latest data available to 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research. but it remains ahead of last year’s figures. and record highs are popping in key hiring segments, including staff, cpa firms and payroll services. is talk of staffing shortages overblown, or would growth be even stronger if more qualified candidates were available? read more →
what relevance means for staffing in accounting

seventeen ways to improve.
by marc rosenberg
cpa firm staff: managing your #1 asset
the business graveyard is littered with major organizations that missed the boat by failing to see cataclysmic game changers happening right before their eyes.
- ice companies failed to get into refrigeration because they saw themselves in the ice business.
- railroads missed out on autos and aerospace because they didn’t see themselves in the transportation business.
- a ceo of digital equipment corporation said he couldn’t imagine why people would want a computer in their own house.
- it took the wright brothers five years to get the u.s. government to even talk to them about their invention.
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in all fairness it’s extremely difficult, if not impossible, to anticipate and accept massive changes like these.
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