Attracting & Retaining Talent

Learn how to transform your firm into the place accounting and bookkeeping professionals want to join.-----------------Thank you to our sponsor, Avalara! Avalara’s award-winning tax automation solutions help accounting practitioners of all sizes, from sole proprietors to Top 100 firms. Avalara simplifies sales tax compliance with real-time rates, automated returns filing, registrations, tax research and automated tax solutions for specialized tax areas. We live and breathe tax so you don’t have to. Learn more at Avalara.com/Accountants.-----------------(00:00) - Introduction and thank you to our sponsor, Avalara (01:55) - Attracting and retaining talent (03:47) - Separation rates (retention) (09:58) - Cost of replacement and why employees quit (17:48) - Thank you to our sponsor, Avalara (19:05) - Attracting talent (21:09) - The Golden Rule of hiring (25:38) - How do you get a lot of candidates to choose from? (32:13) - The importance of your BRAND (34:16) - Positioning statement (36:57) - The role of technology in attracting talent (42:08) - Culture and brand (45:42) - Hiring for talent and hard and soft skills (49:05) - Context and habits (52:58) - How to filter candidates (59:57) - Compensation (01:08:59) - Annual performance evalutations vs AAR (01:12:28) - What about salary increases? (01:14:23) - Wrap up and how to earn FREE CPE and where to find our next stream -----------------Join the Focused Firm email list to get notified of future streams and CPE courses:https://go.earmarkcpe.com/the-focused-firm-----------------Get free CPE for listening to this podcast:https://app.earmarkcpe.com/?course_id=11d08a91-988a-4465-8e0c-e974240b637d-----------------Connect with Hector Garcia, CPA:Website: http://hectorgarcia.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hectormgarciacpa/Connect with Blake Oliver, CPA:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/blaketoliverTwitter: https://twitter.com/blaketoliver/-----------------Download the Earmark CPE App:Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/earmark-cpe/id1562599728Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.earmarkcpe.app