This course will teach you nine immediately usable tactics to fill your open Tax and Accounting roles in firms and corporate teams.
The Best Way to Find a Remote Job in Accounting or Tax
Simple. Use a boutique recruiter that specializes in remote public accounting placements. [Disclaimer: We’re biased. Accountingfly is a boutique recruiter specializing in helping candidates find remote tax jobs and remote accounting jobs at CPA firms]. Read on to learn why it makes sense to use a recruiter to find a remote accounting job or tax […]
The Best Time Ever to Find a Remote Tax Job?
It sure looks that way. Accountingfly has specialized in filling remote tax jobs for a decade and we’ve never seen a more candidate-friendly market for tax professionals. So this might be the best opportunity that you’ll ever have to find the right fit and achieve your career goals. Read on for insight on the current […]
Resume Writing Tips to Land Your Dream Accounting Job
How to Tell (and Sell) Your Accounting Career Story You’re desperate to score a new accounting job. You’ve stagnated and want a new challenge. Maybe a role with more responsibility and better pay – you haven’t had a decent raise for two years. The trouble is that you aren’t receiving invitations to interview. What’s wrong? […]
5 Things Not to Do on a Virtual Accounting Interview
You landed an interview for a new accounting job. Congratulations! Odds are that it’s a virtual interview (according to a Gartner Survey in April 2020, 86% of interviews are currently virtual due to coronavirus). Virtual interviews are here to stay, and they are the standard when interviewing for a remote accounting job – the new […]
How to Write an Accounting Resume that Stands Out in the Pandemic Job Rush
With all of the accounting industry layoffs during the pandemic, your accounting resume is up against tremendous competition. Not only are there more job seekers than usual, many of them are highly qualified. When you’re seeing so many articles about furloughs and firings, it might be tempting to do everything possible to get your name […]
Best Practices for Hiring Accountants: An Expert’s Take
Ever wanted to know how many applications it takes to fill an accounting job? Or how to write a job description or job posting that drives applies? Or how to avoid losing good candidates after they’ve applied? What are the best practices for hiring accountants? As Accountingfly’s Director of Fulfillment, Beth Dierker has seen it […]
Your Zoom Rectangle to the World: How Not to Mess Up
Not to be rude, but over the last few months, we’ve noticed that some of our accounting industry friends are struggling a bit with Zoom or maybe have a team member who needs a friendly reminder – feel free to share this article with them. So we asked our friend Cameron Pearce, Founder of Cross […]
Survive and Thrive with Freelance Accountants
Freelance accountants are the hottest staffing trend in the accounting industry. (Other than remote work. We already get 87 emails a day about remote work and we have a tons more on that topic). This interesting trend in accounting practice management is what Beth Dierker, Head of Fulfillment at Accountingfly, calls “the Uber-ification of the […]
Why Accounting is the Key to Expanding the Digital Nomad Movement
Getting paid to sit on a beach in Tahiti or ski a few runs at Whistler Mountain might sound a little too good to be true—if it were 2004. But with the power of reliable Wi-Fi and a trusty laptop, the age-old idea that traveling the world while earning a living is only a fantasy […]
Which Model is Right For You? Purely Virtual vs. Hybrid
As your firm transitions toward the cloud and remote accounting, what does the end result look like? Should you be moving toward a purely virtual model, abandoning the traditional office completely and connecting to each other and clients purely through technology? Or is a hybrid approach smarter, with some work occurring virtually but some still […]
4 Surprising Facts About Remote Accountants
You know by now that the remote revolution is upon us. Workers are embracing work-from-home options and flooding to the gig economy in droves. According to a 2017 report, 3.9 million employees currently work from home at least half the time. That’s a 115% increase in remote workers since 2005. But misconceptions about remote work […]
How to Build the Ultimate Cloud Accounting Team
Maybe you’re interested in moving some or all of your accounting firm into the cloud, but you’re stuck with a lingering question: How do I organize my team in a way that will maximize the benefits of the cloud? Cloud accounting teams are typically a mix of freelance per diem workers performing gig assignments, permanent […]
What Is a Cloud Accounting Firm?
Google “cloud accounting firm,” and what do you get? A bunch of ads for businesses promising “flexible deployment,” “integrated systems,” and “remote capabilities.” What you won’t find is a real definition of the term. So we’ve gathered insights from some of the world’s leading experts on the subject and combined them with our own knowledge […]
How to Get Big Money from Small Business
Hear that? It’s the sound of a new business starting. And if you can pinpoint exactly what that sound is (a car engine revving, maybe?), you’ll hear it about 450,000 more times this year. (Now, admittedly, that number is a 40-year low for the US, and overall entrepreneurship is down, at least based on the 2014 […]