The CPA Shortage Isn’t Ending: How to Hire Accountants in a Permanently Tight Market
If your accounting roles are sitting open for months, it isn’t your job description. Accounting is a decade into a structural pipeline collapse: fewer students entering the major, fewer graduates sitting the CPA exam, and a generation of experienced...
How to Hire a CFO: Matching the Finance Leader to the Company You’re Becoming
The most expensive CFO hiring mistake isn’t hiring a bad finance person. It’s hiring a good finance person built for a different company. The controller who kept clean books at $10M can’t build the debt story at $80M. The public-company CFO...
Succession Planning Isn’t an HR Document — It’s the Cheapest Executive Search You’ll Ever Run
Ask most leadership teams about succession planning and you’ll get a binder: a nine-box grid updated annually, a list of “ready-in-two-years” names nobody has told, and an emergency successor column filled in to satisfy the board. Then a key...
Retained vs. Contingent Search: What You’re Actually Paying For (and When Each Makes Sense)
Every company scoping a senior hire eventually asks the same question: why would we pay a retainer when contingent recruiters only charge if they deliver? It’s a fair question with an unglamorous answer — the two models don’t sell the same product. One...
