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In the same way that the feedback you receive needs to be heard to be effective, the feedback you give also has to be heard to be effective. The difference is that when you are receiving feedback you control...

Pick-up nearly any business book and the recommendation is likely to be the same: when building a team, "hire for attitudes and train for skills". This seems to be the catchphrase in recent years for recruit...

Numbers don’t lie. It’s a cliché you’ve likely heard before. It's also one you may know to be untrue. Numbers — or rather, financial data — are only as truthful and clear as finance professionals interpret a...

Implementing a recruitment system that is efficient, predictive, candidate-friendly, reduces turnover, and is valuable to recruiting managers takes a fair amount of planning and effort. No single recruitment...

You think you've found the right candidate for your Accounting Firm. Qualifications, experience, skillset and personality all seem like a good fit. But there’s one more step in your hiring process: checking ...

Step 1: Determine your shortlist criteria The purpose of shortlisting is to assess candidate’s suitability and identify those who best meet the selection criteria and who are most likely to be capable of car...

Broad-based surveys consistently find the likes of firefighters, doctors and nurses the most trusted professions, but when businesses are surveyed, accountants emerge as trusted leaders. But trust has to be ...

Have you ever been annoyed at your team member for being too loud or rambunctious? Or impatient with your employee for not getting to the point quick enough? We all have different styles of communicating and...

Last month, we covered off how to write a compelling job ad, now it's time to start thinking about where to place it. Where you specifically place the ad will depend on who your ideal candidate is, so keep i...

Hiring is hard. General Managers know it. Partners know it. HR knows it. School principals know it.  Hiring is hard because both sides are in the dark. Not only is it expensive, time consuming and inherently...

Writing a job ad or posting is just like writing any advertisement. If you take the analogy that the job is your product and the job seekers are your customers, you need to make a compelling case for why the...

For many accounting & finance employers, a job advertisement calling for highly skilled, tech-savvy candidates with stellar tertiary credentials to match would be the bare minimum for recruitment standar...