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How to Hire a Bookkeeper - 3 Tips
How to Hire a Competent Bookkeeper

By Emily Le Grys on May 11, 2022

A good education and an outstanding performance during interview does not equate to a high performing individual. In order to gauge a candidate’s abilities, you need meaningful data. The following three tips will help to keep your recruitment process focused on the data that matters, reduce the effects of bias, and uncover each candidate’s true capabilities.

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Assessing Accounting Firm Candidate Commitment
Assessing Candidate Commitment

By Emily Le Grys on Apr 26, 2022

We’ve recently been hearing more and more about the topic of “candidate commitment” from clients who are dealing with candidates pulling out of final-stage selection processes. You know who I mean; the candidates that seem really interested in a role, say all of the right things and then at the last moment, when you offer them the job, they decide they’re not interested. 

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Top Tips for Stay Interviews
Top Tips for Stay Interviews

By Emily Le Grys on Mar 22, 2022

Check out this quick read to get real time tips for conduction stay interviews. You’ll also learn the best questions to ask to get to the core of what motivates your staff at work, how to encourage loyalty, and foster an attractive workplace culture

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Accountant Personality Test Gives Recruiters the Edge
Accountant Personality Test Gives Recruiters the Edge

By Emily Le Grys on Mar 16, 2022

A New Zealand company has developed a test for prospective accountants that can identify whether they are “backroom number-crunchers or strategic business advisers”.

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How to Break a Tie Between Two Top-Tier Candidates
How to Break a Tie Between Two Top-Tier Candidates

By Emily Le Grys on Mar 01, 2022

What do you do when two outstanding candidates are vying for the same position at your firm and they have been neck and neck throughout the recruitment process, how do you decide which person to hire? Here are four strategies to consider:

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Why Do Some Job Adverts Put Women Off Applying? Accountests UK
Why Do Some Job Adverts Put Women Off Applying?

By Steve Evans on Feb 21, 2022

This isn’t a twittersphere pointless rant on gender, but rather the findings of extensive research that could be putting fifty percent of the job seeking population off applying for your vacancy based on the words and phrases you use in your job advertisements and position descriptions. Accountants and bookkeepers are hard enough to find already, without unconsciously removing half of the applicant pool, so keep this article handy whenever you’re writing job advertisements.

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Do You Measure How Ethical You Are? Accountests UK
Do You Measure How Ethical You Are?

By Giles Pearson on Feb 08, 2022

Trust as the backbone of ethics in business is explored in the 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer Report and gives some fascinating insights into trust, specifically in the workplace. Transparency and ethical practice are front of mind for customers and colleagues alike.

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How to Painlessly Reject Candidates
How to Painlessly Reject Candidates

By Emily Le Grys on Dec 07, 2021

Want to see if Accountests will work for your firm? Click on the button for a FREE trial test - use it on a candidate or get one of your staff to g...

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A Manager’s Role in Turning Around Underperforming Team Members
A Manager’s Role in Turning Around Underperforming Team Members

By Emily Le Grys on Dec 07, 2021

Starting a conversation about under performance is never easy. Acknowledging the role you play in this person’s success (or otherwise) is crucial to setting the stage for a constructive discussion

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Get the Best Out of Your Accounting Staff
Get the Best Out of Your Accounting Staff

By Emily Le Grys on Nov 23, 2021

Guest author Ed Chan from Wize Mentoring walks us through the 3 top principles to get the best out of your accounting staff. This is the key to working ON your business and not IN it.

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Why Team Building Doesn't Work in Tough Economic Times
Why Team Building Doesn't Work in Tough Economic Times

By Emily Le Grys on Nov 17, 2021

Hilary Briggs shines a timely light into the perplexing subject of whether to invest in Team Building during tough economic times, and recommends an effective approach to match budgets and circumstances

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Horror Hire: A Cautionary Tale for Accounting Firms
Horror Hire: A Cautionary Tale

By Emily Le Grys on Oct 30, 2021

In a candidate short market, the increasing time pressures and lack of talent are forcing some quick hiring decisions. But lowering the standards of your selection process is not the solution. Selecting the wrong candidate costs more than time and money. As one firm owner recently found out, bypassing valuable steps in the hiring process cost him not just money, but time, reputation, and even his own wellbeing.

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