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CFO Magazine reveals an upturn in salary levels for the last four quarters in some industries. In accounting and finance, we continue to see compensation increasing and the demand for certain levels of accounting and finance professionals.
An article on Business Insider, The Exact Words to Use When Negotiating Salary, gives pointers on how to negotiate your salary when interviewing for a position. We’d like to take this opportunity to offer some tips of our own on negotiating salaries and the benefits.
Are we over thinking managing our talent? An article from Forbes raises the question and finds the solution to be quite basic. We couldn’t agree more and find that the most successful managers keep things simple.
The Wall Street Journal, relays good news concerning the job market and economy. We, also, continue to see improvement in the Accounting, Finance and IT sectors as reported in our Q1 2013 Hiring Forecast.
An article on the Los Angeles Times website, reports on the current state of the job market and economy with noted effects from super storm Sandy.
Jim Wong, Founder of Brilliant Financial Staffing, lends his insight and comments on today's topics impacting accounting and finance professionals. Below is his commentary and links to the related industry articles. To continue the conversation, we welcome you to join our LinkedIn Group and let us know your thoughts.
Our 2013 Salary Survey contains salary guidelines for finance and accounting positions in the Chicago market.
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Founder Jim Wong discusses how the current temporary staffing industry model is broken and how Brilliant Financial Staffing delivers the right candidate, risk free, at a lower overall cost - guaranteed.