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Top 2 Rules for Consultants
Hiring a Consultant? Or Is Your Firm Doing Consulting?
Rule No. 1: Know the industry.
Rule No. 2: Deliver quick results.
Clients are looking for quick results from consulting engagements that draw on in-depth understanding of industry-specific dynamics. Kennedy Information research finds that results are most efficiently generated by consultants who can solve industry-specific problems with fast solutions.
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Salaries for 2005 Finance Grads Looking Up
Job market for undergrads, which tanked back in mid-2001, is roaring back.
Of course, that’s not, at first glance, good news for employers. On the other hand, it does mean, for the firms and companies who can be competitive, that they may be able to widen their leads over also-rans with better talent.
“Not all employers feel the economy is performing strongly; but they feel compelled to add workers after 3? years of very limited hiring,” says a survey of 582 employers conducted by Michigan State University’s Collegiate Employment Research Institute (CERI), according to Monster.com. READ MORE →
11 Questions You Should Be Asking
A few easy-to-ask, feel-good questions can get a client or prospect comfortable and talking. It’s up to you know how to listen and how to find ways to help.
From Bob Burg, author of “Endless Referrals,” here are the first three to get started.
1. How did you get your start in the “widget” business?
2. What do you enjoy most about what you do?
3. What separates your company from your competition?
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CPAs: You Need a Vacation
If wishes were horses, CPAs would be on their way to the beach.
by Rick Telberg
At Large
(first appeared in the AICPA Insider)
And if our straw poll means anything, it would be a beach in Hawaii.
The statistical side of the survey showed most accountants and finance managers taking between two and four weeks off, with only 8 percent getting a week, and 9 percent getting more than five weeks, as we first reported in last week’s AICPA Career Insider.
Still, 59 percent saw some of their hard-earned vacation days untaken, and 69 percent thought they deserved more vacation than they got. Just over half said they could be tempted to take another job that offered more time off.
PEOPLE: Aon Names McKinsey Partner to Head Consulting
More McKinsey DNA at Accounting Insurer
Chicago-based Aon Corp., which handles a huge amount of insurance for accountants, has named Andrew M. Appel as chief executive officer of Aon Consulting Worldwide. Appel succeeds Donald C. Ingram, who “has had longstanding plans to retire as Aon Consulting’s chief executive officer,” Aon said in a statement. Ingram remains chairman of Aon Consulting, which provides risk management, human resource and employee benefit consulting, among other services.
Appel had been a senior partner in the financial services and technology practices of consultant McKinsey & Co. Aon CEO Gregory C. Case, who replaced longtime chief Patrick G. Ryan in April, also joined the brokerage from McKinsey. READ MORE →
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