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Skills for the HR Professional to Consider in an Unpredictable Environment
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted industries and businesses across the nation; more importantly, it’s transformed—perhaps permanently—the way that many businesses function. The new working environments have embraced social distancing and remote working on a scale that many could never have imagined.Amid the pandemic, HR professionals have played a ...
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The Vital Role of Financial Analysts in a Shifting Market
Today, more than ever, businesses and individuals need trusted guidance and advice to help them make sense of new and complex financial situations, recover from financial hardships, and make a plan toward recovery in our volatile economic climate. Financial analysts with the right mix of skills, experience, and understanding to tackle current and future economic and busi...
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Hiring in a Pandemic Environment
The COVID-19 pandemic has given many employers and organizations a host of new challenges to overcome, particularly those related to recruiting. Out of these challenges, new innovations in the recruiting, hiring, and onboarding of employees have emerged to meet companies’ needs. With the move to a primarily digital environment, employers have ne...
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A Spotlight for CPAs: What’s on the Horizon for 2021?
The year 2020 will go down in history as one of the most transformative years in the evolution of many industries. One of the top industries to be affected is finance and accounting, and certified public accountants (CPAs) may feel like they have to “catch up” to these changes for some time to come.Workplaces shifted to remote working operations acro...
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If You Haven’t Considered a Call Center Job, You Could Be Missing Out
The job market in 2020 has faced an incredible amount of change. Due to the pandemic, the unemployment rate has fluctuated wildly, and even individuals who have retained their positions find their average day may look far different than it did even a year ago. But these dramatic changes also present an opportunity for people to reflect on their current positions and make...
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Does Your Finance Team Have the Skills to Succeed in an Increasingly Digital World?
The trend toward adopting a more digital workplace has been marching steadily forward for decades. Paperless offices and digital collaboration have increased exponentially in recent years. But nothing could have prepared most companies for the massive shift to digital in 2020 that was required because of the pandemic. Even companies with an already-impressive digital env...
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Team-Building Exercises for Remote-Working Situations
Having a strong team and a positive culture in the workplace is beneficial to companies in a myriad of ways, from lowering retention rates, increasing productivity, and even increasing profit margins. And meaningful interactions among team members often form the basis of creating positive team dynamics.While it may seem impossible—or at least incredi...
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How Accounting Is Adopting a Data-Centric Approach in a Changing Economy
It’s as if the pandemic gripping the world has shaken a snow globe and the effects have mixed up and rearranged nearly every aspect of our work and personal lives as we once knew them.As the global economy adjusts to a “new normal” that’s suddenly virtual, more and more organizations around the country—and around the world—are adopting a data-centric...
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6 Social Media Best Practices to Reach More Candidates
Much like parenting, there’s no playbook for perfecting your social media routine. Many companies that are very successful on social platforms today began their social media presence with a lot of trial and error—and made many mistakes along the way. Luckily, you can learn from the lessons of these early social pioneers and refine your own strategies to grow a community ...
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Demand for Contract Workers in Finance and Accounting Roles
Currently, the job market in the US is facing unique circumstances, including tremendous job growth pitted against record-low unemployment rates. While the average job growth rate across all jobs in the country is predicted to be 14.5% in 2020, those in the finance and accounting fields will g...
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HR’s Evolving Relationship with Technology and Analytics
There’s no denying that HR has gone through a tremendous transformation over the last several decades, largely due to the rise of software applications and related technologies. What we see now is much less time being devoted to task-oriented work, and more involvement with strategic planning for the company overall. But this evolution isn’t happening evenly across all o...
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Best Practices for Hiring Professionals in a Low Unemployment Environment
The unemployment rate has been historically low in recent years; the figure for January 2020 was a mere 3.6%. While this is excellent news for economists, it can present some challenges for employees who have vacancies to fill.
