Employer Resources
The KBW Financial Staffing & Recruiting team has compiled useful articles for our employer partners, filled with tips, advice, and best practices to help you streamline the search process and find the right candidate for your needs.
The Appropriate Way to Navigate Office Happy Hours
Deciding whether to join your team for office happy hours can be challenging. On the one hand, you may want to stay at the office for another hour...
How to Keep Your Accounting Department Running Effectively During the Holidays
Managing an accounting department during the holidays is stressful. You have to balance employee requests for time off with the increased workload...
How to Effectively Lead and Manage Your Data Entry Temps
Great leaders and talent are needed to grow a successful company. The best leaders focus on vision and strategy to guide and remove obstacles for...
Your Job Descriptions Could Be the Reason You Aren’t Getting the Right Candidates
If you are not attracting the right candidates for your accounting and finance positions, it may be because of your job descriptions. The best...
Using the Rules of Improv at Work
The rules of improv aren’t just for comedy scenes on a stage. They’re a great guide for moving ideas forward and creating an environment that...
Better Employees
One of the things managers often struggle with is how to get their employees to perform at a higher level. Not because their people aren’t doing...
How to Manage Generation Z Employees
Members of Generation Z are expected to make up approximately one-quarter of the global workforce in 2020. As Baby Boomers continue to retire over...
Helpless vs. Resourceful
Over the last several years of hiring people for our company we have tried to come up with some profile or some marker to look for how to determine...
Terrible Job, Great Career
One of the first things I ask candidates is, “Do you want a job, or do you want a career? Because this can be a terrible job, but a great career.”...
The War for Talent…
If you're in a hiring position then you have likely realized that the war for talent has been fully waged. Whether you are the winner or loser of...
Ditching the Work-Life Balance
One of the things that people ask me about the most when we’re talking about potential work is how much work-life balance different jobs afford. I...
Making Sense of Record-High Unemployment for Finding Your Next Superstar
During this time of high unemployment due to COVID-19, you may be wondering why few candidates are responding to your job postings for a finance...
Hiring The Best Athlete not The Best Resume
We’ve all done it, interviewed the person that everyone in the room loved. Your gut told you she was a great fit, but she was too entry level, came...
Millennials in The Workplace
I’ve written before about the hand-wringing that comes along with trying to “figure out” a new generation of employees (any new generation). Right...
Millennials in the workplace: Harnessing their unique skills to make your company more successful.
There’s a Sumerian tablet that dates back to the 3rd century B.C. that documents a man’s complaints about the next generation – they’re lazy,...