Recruiting

Aldor Delp of ADP talks about how firms can retain the best employees and deal with succession planning, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

Aldor Delp of ADP discusses how accounting firms can attract the best talent at a competitive time in the labor market, in an interview with Dan Hood of Accounting Today.

Avoid wasting both your time and your candidate’s time the next time you decide to hire an accountant. It’s easier than you might think and starts with developing a clear, focused and well written job description.

Employment increased by a healthy 242,000 jobs in February, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, although only 100 jobs were added in accounting and bookkeeping services.

Millennials have a very different set of priorities when deciding where they want to work than previous generations. Employers need to ensure they are tailoring their organizations in order to find and keep millennial talent. Here are some suggestions from Henner Schliebs, VP and head of finance audience marketing at SAP.

Make sure your staff is equipped with “soft skills.”

I have always loved accounting and tax season, but I have worked with many people who did not.

The unemployment rate dipped one-tenth of a percentage point to 4.9 percent as employers added 151,000 jobs in January, to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, including 5,800 jobs in accounting and bookkeeping services.

Private sector employment grew by 205,000 jobs in January, according to payroll giant ADP, in another healthy sign of employment growth despite a turbulent stock market.

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Paychex reported Tuesday that its index of small business job growth rebounded in January.

Crowe Horwath recently instituted two new policies giving its employees the option to dress more casually and work remotely.

Firms suck at succession planning -- and it's their partners' fault.

Almost every staff person will eventually leave you, unless they become a partner.

How you travel for work depends on how old you are.

The younger generation is beginning to gain more influence at accounting firms.

American Institute of CPAs president and CEO Barry Melancon said the AICPA is pushing the Internal Revenue Service to improve its services for both taxpayers and CPAs while preparing to become a more international organization.

One time, one of my young and very bright staff people asked me in the beginning of June if he could take off the months of July and August so he could travel by car throughout the United States. After asking him to repeat this three times, I gulped and told him he could.

What’s good for the overall economy doesn’t bode well for winning the race to recruit great accounting talent.

I have never felt annual staff evaluations are effective. They are forced meetings that lay on complaints and blame for past failures, many of which are not remembered or are vague memories at best.