How to Find an Accounting Firm with Values that Match Your Own! Finding a firm that matches your core values means you must first take time for introspection. This requires that you are brutally honest with yourself. What’s important? What’s not? Only once you’ve clearly defined your core values, will you be successful […]
Surprisingly Simple Steps To A Killer Accountant Resume Call it a resume. Call it a CV. It’s a sales tool. It’s job: to help you get in front of the hiring partner. Period! Make it clean and concise. A resume is an ad, not a user’s guide. The hard truth […]
TMI: Too Much Information! The curse of overkill. Thanks to Facebook and other social media, sharing our lives is the norm. However, there’s sharing and then there’s over-sharing. Never over-share during a job search. Don’t Get Voted Off the Island First, let’s talk resumes. There’s a lot written about what to include […]
Why You’re Bored at Work This is the fourth and final article on boredom and how it can turn previously productive professionals into zombies. For links to my first three articles in this series, see below. In my last two posts, I outlined five of the six reasons why previously motivated professionals […]
Beware: There are zombies in the workplace. Are you one of them? If you’re a ‘Dead Head’, simply roaming through your daily work, you need to revitalize. Often a job change is the best way to resurrect yourself and your career. We all know changing jobs is stressful. As traumatic as leaving […]
Career Lookout: Climbing the Ladder of Success There are many deeply personal reasons to change your employment situation. However, from a purely tactical point of view, there are four strategic reasons to change jobs within the same (or similar) career field three times during the first ten years of your career: Broader […]
Welcome to 2016. Time for a reality check. Are you working like it’s 2016 or 2006? If you haven’t completely dumped outdated ideas and processes, now’s the time for a change. Let’s face it, public accounting is still clinging to some stale business beliefs. CPAs need to regroup. Maintaining solely compliance-focused, traditionalist […]
