How to Be a Strong Communicator
Franklin Roosevelt is history’s “great explainer.” He could take a complex concept and simplify it so that everyone could understand. Here’s how to gain buy-in and become a strong communicator.
Tips from Finance Recruiters – Acing the Phone Interview
Finance recruiters and employers often use a phone interview as a way of determining potential fit for a role. This makes acing the phone interview an imperative part of landing the accounting job that you want. Here are some common phone interview questions and how to answer them.
Resume Gaps: How to Explain a Gap in Your Finance or Accounting Resume
Resume gaps can exist for a variety of reasons – travel, caring for an elderly parent or raising children. Certainly, the economic downturn of 2008-2009 meant that it was not unusual to see employment gaps on a candidate’s resume. But are resume gaps the death knell for a candidate’s
Career Planning for Accountants: The 1, 3, and 5 Year Mark
Where do you want to be in 5 years? Is your current role going to allow you to achieve your objectives? Career planning is essential to getting where you want to be. It’s critical to engage in self–reflection at the 1, 3, and 5 year mark. Here are some tips:
How to Fast Track Your Accounting Career
A new year offers us a chance to set resolutions and follow through. If you want to fast track your accounting career, here are 5 goals to help you reach the next rung on the promotional ladder.
Goals 1: Cultivate a New Skill
Identify any new reporting standards, regulatory measures
How to Know if an Employee is Ready to Become a Manager
Your organization believes in promoting from within. As such, it makes sense that someone from your existing employee pool should become your next manager. The question is, how do you know if someone is truly ready to become a leader? Here are 8 signs that you have your next manager in
The Accounting Interview: Questions That Test Emotional IQ
Questions that measure technical fit often take priority over emotional IQ in an accounting interview, but do they have the self-awareness, empathy and social skills to be a valuable member of your team?
What Makes a Director of Finance Great?
What does it take to be a great Director of Finance? For one, a management style that facilitates the building of an integrated and responsive finance function. For another, an ability to combine an operational focus with strong financial acumen.
No pressure.
Here are a few traits that the best
The Best LinkedIn Tips for Active Finance and Accounting Job Seekers
LinkedIn is a powerful tool for connecting active finance and accounting job seekers with prospective employers. Done correctly, your LinkedIn profile can be a powerful calling card. Here are the 5 best LinkedIn tips to help you get noticed by recruiters and internal placement teams.
1. Get Optimized – Keywords and Groups
Find out which words
The 5 Habits of Highly Successful Finance Managers
A study by Dale Carnegie Training revealed something disturbing. Almost 75% of employees are not fully engaged at work. But what differentiated the engaged from the disengaged?
The answer – a positive relationship with their immediate supervisor.
This makes the role of finance manager critical to an organization’s success. Here are
Why CPA’s Make Excellent Entrepreneurs
Could a CPA ever leave the risk adverse world of debits and credits and launch their own business? Unequivocally, the answer is yes. CPAs have specific skills that position them to be great entrepreneurs. To see whether or not the world of entrepreneurship might be a fit for you, read
Tips from Toronto Recruiters: Choosing References
We’re often so busy polishing our resume or writing an award-winning LinkedIn profile that we don’t always spend the time required choosing references that are best. As Toronto recruiters who coach candidates through the job search and interview process, the importance of picking the right references cannot be
