A List of Recruiting Ideas for CPA Firms

Source: Texas Society of CPAs, Public Practice

Excerpts provided, with permission, from the Texas Society of CPAs.

Name one person in your firm to own your overall recruiting process and one person to own recruiting for each position.
Meet with the lead “recruiter” for each open position to brainstorm places you might find your ideal candidates.
If you want to recruit qualified candidates quickly, consider using a mix of these possible activities:
- Your local newspapers and their associated Web sites.
- Other internet recruiting sites including Careerbuilder.com, Hotjobs.com, and Monster.com.
- The AICPA’s Career Center and your state society’s recruiting site, if it has one.
- State society magazines or newsletters.
- CPA association career centers or Web sites.
- Alumni sites for the Big 4 and for universities and colleges in your area.
- Professional recruiters, including retained searches, which seem to be working for some firms these days.
Other ideas:
- Develop a career center on your Web site.
- Create an employee referral program. Make the reward significant.
- Get to know those who work in accounting academia in your area and let them know about your firm’s openings.
- For the very strategic or hard-to-find positions, write a “friends and family” e-mail and send it to literally all of your professional alliances and referral sources, client contacts, friends, family, fellow church members, and others.
- Web sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, and even YouTube offer the potential of attracting staff.

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From Texas Society of CPAs, Public Practice. May/June 2008 (www.tscpa.org/).

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