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Hire Fast With Confidence – the Accountests Newsletter
With the holiday season fading, it’s worth looking back over the last couple of months – here are the most popular blogs we’ve published recently. In your rush to clear your inbox you might have hit ‘delete’ a bit too quickly!
Best of our recent blogs
When AI Writes The Resume, What Does It Really Prove? – by Donna Roughan - AI is changing recruitment by making resumes more polished, tailored, and persuasive than ever before. It creates a challenge for employers - particularly in accounting and finance roles where technical competence, judgment, and accuracy are critical.
Why Would I Use A Critical Reasoning Test On A Graduate? - by Giles Pearson - Most accounting graduates have limited practical accounting knowledge, so hiring decisions need to go beyond technical skills alone.
How to Stop Your Accountants And Bookkeepers From Quitting – by Steve Evans - Many firms only uncover why employees are unhappy after they've decided to resign! Explore what motivates employees to stay, what frustrates them, and how leaders can better support them.
Where will you see us soon?
Our Sales Manager Ashley Kostos is at the Bridging The Gap conference this week. We’re excited to attend this for the first time. We are also attending the CPAmerica USA Conference in September, along with a couple of BDO Alliance regional meetings. Let Ashley know if you’ll be attending!
Accounting industry leadership
Our CEO Donna Roughan was a speaker at a Chartered Accountants ANZ business leaders event Business Summit 2026, and also a judge for the ICNZB ‘Bookkeeper of the Year’ awards.
Accountests in the media
We’ve had a couple of articles published recently in Accounting Today
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Time to hire graduates is approaching
As well as the article Why Would I Use A Critical Reasoning Test On A Graduate?
Check out our Critical Reasoning Test and Contact Us for special offers to test graduates in bulk.
How good is your hiring process?
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Stuff We Like – too good not to share
If you want to keep up with where technology is heading in the accounting industry we love the regular updates from Jason Staats. Follow him on LinkedIn too Jason Staats, CPA | LinkedIn
If you need data on remuneration trends in public accounting check out Dominic Piscopo at Big 4 Transparency
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