8 Hours Free!!
October 30th, 2009
Request a Mercer Bradley temporary / contract accountant for a minimum 4 week engagement and we will provide the first 8 hours of service to you at NO COST.
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Superstars of the Week in Fraser Valley
October 29th, 2009
These are our superstars of the week! - All references, testing and personality assessments have been complete. These candidates are excellent.
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Your Hidden Resume
October 29th, 2009
Most of us spend more time honing our written resume than our invisible one. Yet the latter has far more influence on career prospects. When prospective employers call your references, they are trying to get a read on your “invisible resume.” So are the decision-makers who might be considering you for a promotion.
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You Have One Minute
October 29th, 2009
With so many resume submissions, the task of reviewing them becomes tiresome. Hiring managers can only spend a few seconds on each one. Your resume needs to stand out so that an employer will spend more than a minute on it. How can you do that?
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Selecting a Target Salary
October 29th, 2009
Selecting the right target salary can be a make or break decision when it comes to applying for your next job. Why? Well because the danger is that overpricing yourself will price you out of a job and give the impression that you are either over skilled or overly demanding. And on the other hand underpricing yourself can mean you don’t end up with the salary that you’re worth or worse yet not even get the job because you are perceived to be too junior.
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The Importance of Corporate Culture and Fit to Employee Success
October 14th, 2009
Employee success is largely affected by two things: Personal factors and environmental factors. Personal factors include the appropriate skills to perform a job combined with the motivation to utilize those skill-sets effectively. Environmental factors include manager fit and cultural fit. Employees are often hired on skill but fired or leave based on fit.
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Human Resource Challenges
October 14th, 2009
Modern human resource management professionals are often challenged to strike a balance between the speed with which to respond to the changing requirements of an organization and the cost of providing the right resources. This becomes a delicate balancing act. Human resource managers must ensure that they take care of short-term requirements as they relate to temporary staffing resources while also ensuring that the firm develops the capabilities required in the future. Strategic staffing consolidates these long-term and short-term requirements.
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Candidates Who Can Get the Job Done! (Winnipeg)
October 6th, 2009
Below is a very brief bio of three accounting professionals that Mercer Bradley is currently representing. We would be happy to make an introduction (no obligation of course!!) if you feel there is a potential fit for any of your current or upcoming accounting staff requirements.
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