Attracting and hiring top talent for your accounting firm is only part of the recruiting challenge. The other is successfully onboarding and keeping this talent in-house. Job hopping has become popular in many industries in recent years. No longer do people work for companies for the long term. Many professionals, including accountants, move on to new challenges around the 5-year mark.
“For all the effort firms put into the recruiting process, it is unfortunately only one part of the process. Once a firm has its recruits lined up, the focus then shifts to retaining them, keeping them professionally satisfied and (hopefully) securing a long-term talent bench for the firm,” says Sean McCabe on Accounting Today.
He adds,
“But today’s work environment is constantly changing, and firm leaders need to embrace this change in order to keep new professionals from seeking greener pastures.”
According to a recent survey by Accounting Today, accounting talent is increasingly hard to find and even more difficult to keep.
Once you’ve invested significant time and money into hiring a top talent, companies need to give them reasons to want to stay at the organization long term. Here are some ways to prevent employees from hopping to the next job:
Including the above into your employee retention plan will help make your accounting firm more attractive for new hires and encourage current employees to stick around.
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