Monthly Archives: April 2011

10 Ways to Recruit & Retain the Best Talent

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Steve Erickson
Steve Erickson

Rule 1: Deliver a consistent message.

CPA and consultant Steve Erickson offers 10 tips to help firms in hiring and retention:

  1. Increase focus and efforts. Make recruiting a year-round focus, engaging both
    partners and employees in the process.
  2. Build an employee referral network. Use it to find employees and offer your expertise to other accountants while spreading the word about the profession through speaking and writing engagements. Focus on reciprocity–make referrals for other firms and don’t burn bridges. READ MORE →

10 Global Mega-Trends for This Year’s Partner Retreat

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As busy season ebbs into memory and accounting firms start looking toward the future, top managers will be confronting a host of difficult issues.

by Rick Telberg

Many of the most pressing issues are close to home — winning a few more big clients, nurturing succession, finding adequate capital to reinvest in the business. Some other issues, however, may seem more abstract. They are, to be sure, no less real.

A host of global trends are conspiring to make this year’s retreat season just that much more complicated for accounting firm leaders.

Here are 10 top global trends that are rushing headlong toward the American accounting firm industry: READ MORE →