Increase in Unfilled Staff Positions Signals Strength in the Labor Market By Jim Wong, CPA | June 24, 2014 Slow and steady wins the race. Brilliant™ released its quarterly Hiring Forecast for Q3 2014 this week, and while the economic conditions...
How Companies Should Approach Their Next Hire After an Employee Quits By Jim Wong, CPA | June 17, 2014 Picture this: Your SEC Reporting Manager, Sr. Financial Planner, or J2EE Developer has just resigned in the middle of a...
5 Tips to Manage Your Accounting, Finance, or IT Career—Not Just Your Job By Jim Wong, CPA | June 9, 2014 Are you looking far enough ahead? John M. Richardson, Jr., an acclaimed American Professor once said, “When it comes to...
The Love-Hate Relationship Between Social Media and Accounting, Finance, and IT Professionals By Jim Wong, CPA | June 2, 2014 Admit it. You balk, p-shh, and eye-roll at the mere mention of social media, especially when told it can help...
Up and Up! Plan for Increased Workflow and Costs By Jim Wong, CPA | May 27, 2014 There’s a great rule of etiquette in life, and it goes something like this: Never talk about religion, politics, or...
Micromanagement: The Nemesis of Business Growth By Jim Wong, CPA | May 19, 2014 Micromanagement: The Nemesis of Business Growth I recently read an interview in the New York Times with Carl Galioto, Managing Principal...
How to Get Respect as a Leader By Jim Wong, CPA | May 12, 2014 Just earning a Director of Finance or Director of Information Technology title isn’t enough to automatically grant you respect. If...
Happy, Healthy Employees = A Better Bottom Line. Who Knew? By Jim Wong, CPA | May 5, 2014 What if creating a work environment that fostered happy, healthy employees did more than just make you and your employees...
Job Interviews: Why Asking the Right Questions is So Important By Jim Wong, CPA | April 28, 2014 You’ve landed an interview for your dream accounting job. Now what? Sometimes it feels like the hard part of the...