Hire Fast With Confidence – The Accountests Newsletter

Here's a few things you might have missed in the last few weeks. 

Payroll Hiring Tests

We've been asked for a while for tests to help hiring Payroll Officers – both in firms with CAS teams, but also for the Business & Industry sector.  We've got these in Beta for the USA and New Zealand.  If someone in your Payroll Team would be interested to be a Beta Tester let us know – about 45 minutes, and we'll give you a couple of free ones once it finalized. 

Accountests in the media

We’ve had this article published recently in Accounting Today –  

Why accounting firms should benchmark their hiring | Accounting Today 

5 key things to benchmark to see if your hiring process is giving you the results you need.  If you're not a subscriber and want to see the full article, let us know and we can send it to you. 

Our recent Blog Articles

Why Accounting Firms May Be Losing Graduate Talent Without Realizing It - by Steve Evans.  A recent graduate workshop highlighted a significant disconnect between what employers think candidates experience, and what graduates think is happening.  If you hire graduates this is a MUST READ. 

The New Accounting Hire: What Skills Matter in an AI-Assisted Firm?  - by Donna Roughan.  What makes accountants thrive in the AI age?  They are actually the same people who have always thrived in the profession. They're curious. They ask questions. They apply judgement. They communicate well. They continue learning. 

What Accountants Can Learn from Spotify - by Giles Pearson.  The music industry completed its technology revolution 10 years ago.  There are some important lessons for the accounting profession – AI might not be the only thing to focus on. 

The Most Underrated Skill in Accounting: The Power of Listening - by Steve Evans.  Want to be a trusted advisor?  Knowledge is vital, but learning to listen is just as important if you want to build trust. 

Are Your Hiring Assessments Legal? - by Giles Pearson.  If you're using any form of assessment in your hiring process, it better be legal! 

Where will you see us soon? 

Our Sales Manager Ashley Kostos is attending the CPAmerica Conference in a couple of weeks, along with more of BDO Alliance regional meetings.  Let Ashley know if you’ll be attending! 

Everyone is talking Critical Thinking

We're inundated with questions about critical thinking skills – how to assess them and how to improve them.  AI is moving the bar on this.  If this is on your radar check out our Critical Reasoning Test and Contact Us with any questions. 

CPA Career Satisfaction Survey

If you have 5 minutes please help inform the accounting profession by completing the third annual CPA Career Satisfaction Survey here https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9JMPACC  
on behalf of our friends at the Brainstorm Group. 

Your responses will be kept 100% confidential and will help us all move the profession forward and identify where we can do better. 

We’ll share preliminary findings with you shortly after you respond so you can benchmark your responses against the overall survey population. 

How good is your hiring process?

If you want to benchmark your hiring process against best practice, find out your Hiring Health Score  

Stuff We Like – too good not to share

If you want to keep up with happenings in the accounting profession, we love The Accounting Podcast with Blake Oliver & David Leary.  World's biggest accounting podcast, and you get CPE for listening.   

Questions on anything raised here?  Contact us at help@accountests.com