Staff Shortage? Or Just Bad Management?
The best way to compete for talent begins with re-thinking your business.
by Rick Telberg
At Large
The battle for scarce accounting and finance talent is reaching unheard of proportions. Firms are turning away work. Finance departments are paralyzed. The profession’s leaders routinely inveigh solemnly about the future.
But if you’re looking at the scarcity as simply a labor-side supply-and-demand problem, you’re probably looking at it the wrong way.
It’s beginning to emerge among a widening group of forward-thinkers that the solution to the profession’s staffing issue lies in smart marketing and visionary management ? not simply waiting out global demographic trends.
If your organization ? an accounting firm, finance department or anyplace else where tax, accounting and finance work is done ? is facing a staffing shortage or high turnover, don’t blame the market. And don’t blame the recruiters. READ MORE →
