The Top Reasons Why New Hires Fail
One in four new hires leave before their second year on the job. Here are some of the reasons why new hires fail.
How to Embrace Feedback and Improve Your Career
“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” So runs an old Buddhist proverb. But are you a willing student? Here’s how to embrace feedback and make yourself more coachable.
How to Improve Your Public Speaking Skills
Not everyone is comfortable addressing or speaking before an audience. Here’s some advice on how you can develop your public speaking skills.
Let’s be honest: accountants aren’t exactly known as the most outgoing or gregarious people in the room. The stereotype of the accountant as a wallflower,
Tailoring Your Resume
As we explored last week, optimizing your resume by choosing an appropriate format is very important. Similarly, ensuring that your resume is tailored to each position you apply to, even when not actively applying for jobs, is an absolute must.
So how do you best go about this? We recommend
A Survival Guide to Dealing with Difficult Co-Workers
Everyone’s had to deal with a co-worker who made our lives difficult. Here are some tips for coping with jerks at work.
The new season of American Idol is upon us, and all of the entertainment news shows are agog with rumours of an ongoing spat between two of
Tips for Giving Back and Finding Meaning as an Accountant
Accountants have skills that can make a positive difference – not just for their companies’ bottom lines, but also for the world we live in. Here are some ideas about how you can give back.
Let’s not be bashful here: as an accountant or finance professional, you possess some highly
The Importance of Ongoing Professional Development
Whether you’re a CA, CGA or CMA, your work as an accountant will never be just about the numbers.
Sure, your expertise in taxation, finance and auditing is invaluable, but often, what really sets you apart in this industry is versatility. That means a truly successful accountant will possess
Avoiding Career Suicide on Social Media
We’ve talked in the past about how hiring professionals can optimally use social media to attract and find the right candidates, and offered some basic advice to accountants for expanding and managing their online presence.
But there’s another, darker side to the Internet that we’re all becoming
Finding Your Perfect Organizational Culture, Pt. II
Here are some things to look for, as well as questions to ask, when you go in for that interview, to help you figure out the company’s culture.
In my last post, I argued that a company’s culture should be just as important a consideration for employees as
3 Important Tips for New Finance Managers
So you’ve just been appointed to your first managerial job. Congratulations! When you first received the news, you were probably beside yourself with joy. A bigger salary, a fancy new title, a corner office with a glorious view, and all of the other many perks of management — they’re
How to Quit Your Job Professionally
There’s a right and wrong way to leave your job. Here’s how not to lose friends or alienate people when quitting.
There’s a famous scene from an episode of Seinfeld, in which George Costanza (one of the main characters on the show) has decided to quit his
How to Take the Right “Rebound Job”
Times are tough. While the overall economic climate is slowly improving, some industries are still struggling to bounce back from the global downturn. Cost-cutting remains the order of the day at many companies, as they wait for the inevitable turnaround. And it’s not just the usual suspects, like recent
