Recruiting

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.

Staffing company Robert Half International has introduced a set of online salary calculators for a number of industries, including accounting and finance.

One-third of small businesses question their ability to access credit in 2010, according to a new survey.

Accounting Principals, the accounting and finance recruitment unit of MPS Group, has released its 2010 Salary Guide for Accounting and Finance Professionals.

Intuit has created a Lacerte and ProSeries Tax Certification program that 1040 tax preparers can use to demonstrate their proficiency and firms can use to test their existing staff and find qualified job candidates.

Several years ago, the most critical generational issue facing CPA firms was attracting and keeping bright new talent. Today, the generational scales have tipped; it's no longer the youngest employees who are causing concern - it's the most experienced employees.