Recruiting

This issue's Generational Viewpoints features two individuals from the Rochester, N.Y.-based multi-office firm EFP Rotenberg LLP (www.efprotenberg.com). Darla Wheaton, partner and head of the Attest Department, a Baby Boomer born in 1963, and Gen Y staff accountant Joe Barone, born in 1986, shared their thoughts regarding the following question:

Don’t expect things to just happen in your career or expect others, especially employers, to know what you are thinking.

Paychex has introduced a new Web page and online calculator to help businesses determine their tax savings if they take advantage of the recently passed HIRE Act to hire new employees.

Only 29 percent of CFOs and senior controllers at U.S. companies plan to increase their hiring in the next six months, while 22 percent say they will decrease hiring, according to a new survey.

Even with high unemployment, businesses are finding that it takes at least a month to fill open accounting and finance positions.

The biggest takeaway from the recession for employers could be taking better care of their workers, according to a recent survey of chief financial officers.

A round of resumes for the upcoming season are beginning to circulate within our audit and consulting office. Undoubtedly, the traditional interviewing process will fall short, resulting in regrettable new hires.

Accounting firm Marcum’s recruiting arm Marcum Search has opened a temporary services division that will offer temporary employee placements for all types of industries.

The recession has affected many companies harder than they anticipated. Most organizations experienced some kind of impact from the financial upheaval, according to a survey by Burlingame, Calif.-based Accountants International of 3,500 accounting, finance and human resource executives nationwide.

Seven percent of CFOs plan to add full-time accounting and finance employees during the second quarter, the highest forecast since the first quarter of 2009, but 8 percent expect staff reductions.

Small businesses lost 18,000 jobs in February, according to a report by payroll giant ADP.

Intuit is seeing small businesses beginning to hire again, based on a survey of its online payroll customers.

Despite lean budgets for many businesses today, cash bonuses continue to be the leading incentive for recognizing employee performance, according to a survey of CFOs.

Our Generational Viewpoints article this issue features Baby Boomer John Nicolopoulos, born in 1956, assurance partner of Boston-based Caturano and Co. (www.caturano.com), and Generation Y assurance manager Nichole VanPelt, born in 1981, of the same firm. We asked Nichole and John the following question: "How important is soft-skills training to your firm?"

The fourth year of Ernst & Young's Discover Tax Leadership Conference drew 102 minority college students from all over the country to New York (braving the cold) to learn about tax - and themselves.

Everybody has secrets.

A series of surveys conducted in the past decade suggests that CFOs may be staying in their jobs longer.

Small businesses with less than 50 employees slashed 12,000 jobs last month, the smallest decline since July of 2008, but businesses in the service sector actually added jobs for the second consecutive month.

CFOs were more optimistic about the economy and their own companies in the fourth quarter of last year, according to a new survey.

A measure of the overall confidence of accounting and finance employees dipped slightly in the fourth quarter.