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why i don’t hire on experience

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ed mendlowitz cpa the practice doctor q and aquestion: i know you advocate for hiring entry-level staff, but is there a situation when an experienced person should be hired?

answer: obviously there are exceptions – but i believe they are few and far between and not worth the overall effort of only hiring experienced staff, which many small firms only hire, and occasionally larger firms do when they think a “gem” is available.

the main reason of the whys and wherefores of the exception and hiring experienced people is that the experienced person you interview has worked for only one firm and you believe that firm has the same quality standards for training and development as you have and the person is leaving because of: read more →

survey: top 10 ways firms tutor top talent

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no. 1 method: ‘give them challenging assignments.”

by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research

it may sound harsh to the uninitiated, but the most common way for firms to turn talented staffers into future managers and leaders is to make their lives a little more difficult, according to a new 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 multi-year study.

the questionnaire for “talent strategies: how to identify and develop professionals for management and leadership responsibilities” remains online and open as 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 continues to collect data and refine its analysis.  read more →

cpa talent: how to identify future leaders early

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screen shot 2014-05-20 at 6.58.19 amwho gets promoted and why in accounting: join the survey; get the answers.

by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research

tax, accounting and finance professionals don’t agree on everything. but they do seem to agree on the key traits needed to succeed in the profession, according to a new 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 multi-year study.

the questionnaire for “talent strategies: how to identify and develop professionals for management and leadership responsibilities” remains online and open as 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 continues to collect data and refine its analysis.  read more →

new surge in wages, hours, hiring

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tax, accounting and bookkeeping employment, through february 2014

the u.s. tax, accounting and bookkeeping industries are turning out to be one of the brightest spots in the nation’s economy, adding jobs faster than all but a handful of sectors, according to 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 sources.

here 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 reports on:

  • current hiring trends in each of the bookkeeping, tax, payroll and cpa segments of the industry.
  • average hourly wages for key segments.
  • typical hours worked per week.
  • and trends concerning women in the accounting workforce. read more →

2014 roundtable: the baby boomers take control

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as one generation ages out, a new one reshapes the future of the profession.

see the complete 2014 roundtable

by jennifer wilson
convergence coaching

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without a doubt, succession issues permeate all aspects of the firms we’re encountering.

these include identifying and developing successors — especially rainmakers and practice leaders, ensuring that the buy/sell makes sense and can be sustained over time, determining retirement timing and issues, establishing and executing transition plans, communicating plans, recruiting new talent to backfill positions and exploring new ways to govern the firm to give more voice to those who will be taking over. succession implications are far-reaching and can be consuming. read more →

5 tips to managing and motivating virtual team members

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by sandi smith leyva, cpa
accountant’s accelerator

it’s not uncommon for even the smallest of businesses to have employees and contractors all over the world.  right now, i have an employee in the ukraine, two employees in san jose, a virtual admin in orange county, a warehouse team in indiana, a transcriptionist in las vegas, partners in new york, chicago, missouri and atlanta, and a coach in sydney, australia.

in the last few months, i‘ve moved from san jose, calif., to plano, texas, while my team stays put.   and it won’t hurt my business one tiny bit. here are five tips to help your virtual team play at their best. read more →

accounting firms launch new war for talent

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firms are hiring, and many staffers are thinking about a job change.
get more details, join the survey.

by rick telberg
卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间

now five years since the banking crash that forced record layoffs at tax and accounting firms, new survey results from 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research show intensifying competition for talent, with more than 42% of accountants reporting that their firms are hiring and about half of all staffers ready to make a move.

chris hatcher
chris hatcher

“there’s a labor shortage out there,” according to chris hatcher, a partner at louisville, ky., baldwin cpas. “finding good talent is hard.” hatcher says baldwin cpas is looking for professionals with ambition, which he defines as an “owners  mentality.”

in this report, 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research:

– reports the percentage of firms hiring, cutting or holding steady on headcount in the next six to 12 months;
– gathers comment from a representative sample of professionals on key economic and business trends; and
– analyzes latent discontent in the ranks of staffers,
– propensity to seek a job change, and
– overall confidence in the job market. read more →

six great online places to find talent

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by sandi smith leyva, cpa
accountant’s accelerator

when you need to expand your team, the good news is there are many options available today:

  • full time vs. part-time
  • your location or theirs
  • contract or employee
  • permanent or temporary
  • project-specific or recurring
  • and many more options

thousands of people are looking for work, and thousands more are looking for small tasks that they can do on the side.  to find the perfect person for you, here’s a list of sites that help match you to the perfect person for your task, project or job. read more →

cpas salute the people who shaped their lives

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today’s best career advice: join the survey; get the answers.

by rick telberg

at 20 years old, the world was a blank canvas with vast opportunities for sal inserra. he thought he knew exactly what he wanted in life.

“until,” he once told me, “i was set straight.”

like many cpas, sal owes much of his career and success to a few key mentors who guided him early on.

today — as the kids head back to school and college, and as the rest of us wind up our summers and look ahead to the fall — it may be a good time to salute the mentors who help steward a great profession to the next generation. read more →

18 pieces of today’s best job advice

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get certified. apply early and often.  join the survey; get the results.

by rick telberg

i’m looking over the early responses to our new cpa careers survey and one stands out for its practicality and wisdom. this from a veteran senior finance manager at a fortune 1000 company is, i think, 18 pieces of the best advice i’ve ever heard.

1. for the accountant who is not a cpa yet: if you’re not  a cpa already, make it a goal.

2. if you need hours, apply to every accounting firm that you could drive to or are willing to move close to.

3. apply beginning in mid-april, after busy season, when accounting firms clean house. read more →

crowdsourcing for accounting practices

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going beyond outsourcing and virtual workers.

by sandi smith, cpa
accountant’s accelerator

the days are long gone when the only way to build your business was by hiring full-time employees. now there are so many more choices. many employees are interested in part-time work. some prefer to work virtually, which frees a company up from being limited to local talent. and then there’s crowdsourcing, a whole new way to tap into talented labor on a project-by-project basis.

crowdsourcing is a special way to outsource a task. with outsourcing, you know exactly who will be doing the task. with crowdsourcing, you don’t; people just show up and contribute. wikipedia calls it “distributed problem-solving.” read more →