MENLO PARK, Calif., Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Want to know the way to an employee’s heart? Professionals interviewed by OfficeTeam identified work/life balance (28 percent) and opportunities to learn and grow (27 percent) as the top contributors to their job satisfaction. The results are in line with those from a similar [...]
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What Drives Me Nuts About Staffing Agencies (and How They Can Work as a Better Partner)
Matt Lowney Sep 21, 2011, 5:26 am ET inShare1,081 Tweet Over the last several years I’ve sat through no less than 100 staffing agency “pitches” in person or over the phone. At this point these meetings have begun to all sound very similar, so I’ll bucket agency sales pitches in to these three areas. “We’re Different.” Almost every agency [...]
How Bad Are the Odds of Making Partner at a Big 4 Firm?
How Bad Are the Odds of Making Partner at a Big 4 Firm? By Caleb Newquist If you’re a (senior) manager at one of the Final Four horsemen of the accounting firm apocalypse, you may have asked yourself this very question. A reader recently dropped some quantitative analysis on us, writing, “I tried to step [...]
10 jobs of the future
10 jobs of the future By Rachel Farrell, Special to CareerBuilder We know where the jobs are today — and we definitely know where they aren’t. But what about in 10 or even 20 years? As things like technology, medicine, science and environmentalism continue to advance in the coming years, several occupations are bound to [...]
Intuit Survey: Accounting Professionals, Small Businesses Optimistic About Growth
Face Time with Clients, Use of New Technologies Are Keys to Success MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Accounting professionals and small businesses are poised for progress as long as they continue to invest in new technologies, marketing and advertising and face-to-face time with clients. Those are among the major findings of recent nationwide survey from Intuit [...]