1. Do not leave the most important professional decision you make in building your tax team to chance. The chance the best tax candidate will respond to your online tax job ad is not optimal this way. The truth is it requires an expert to go out and actively recruit the most talented tax professionals and invite them to speak with you privately.

2. Experienced tax recruiters understand corporate clients are very busy and value discretion and confidentiality on a tax executive search.

3. Our level of understanding of tax executive searches, our one-on-one interviewing and screening skills ensure more successful, long-term matches on a tax search. Our personalized approach enables us to be more discerning, and not based on superficial characteristics you will encounter during a few interviews.

4. Interviewing correctly is a time-consuming process. Working with us saves you time since we thoroughly pre-screen and vet personalities to find tax professionals who align with your preferences and values.

5. Relying on online resumes submitted through public resume portals increases the risk of unpleasant personality surprises and poor worth ethic. An experienced tax recruiters’ responsibility is to screen out incompatible candidates and report their findings to clients.

6. Conducting a search for your tax organization is an important part of building a productive tax team. You work together with a tax recruiter for optimal results. Candidates will share a lot of information with a recruiter they trust; information that is important to discover during the interview process. (i.e. they are getting married and need a month off next year for the wedding and honeymoon; they are not leaving until they receive their year-end bonus; they have a relative or pet that requires frequent visits back home, their current boss is their best friend and will make them a counteroffer, etc.). You will want to know these situations in advance.

7. Have you ever lost a tax candidate after you spent considerable time interviewing and introducing them to your team? It is a time-consuming process, and you will save a lot of time knowing where the tax candidates head is at after the interviews. Candidates you are interviewing will share a lot of information they would never share with an in-house recruiter. Therefore, you are working in the blind without an experienced tax recruiter.

8. Have you ever made an offer that was not accepted? An experienced recruiter will help ensure an offer will be accepted before you go to all the trouble of putting an offer in writing to hire them.

9. Hiring a tax professional for your tax team is a very important process. You are best prepared when working with an experienced tax recruiter who can do a deeper level of screening than you can do yourself. After all, an experienced tax recruiter will be able to ask questions of candidates being considered that employers are unable to ask tax candidates.

10. Over thirty years in tax executive search, I have encountered many companies who decide they do not want to pay recruiter’s fee. I have also known many companies who hired the wrong candidates with a lot of personality problems. They just did not recognize them during the initial interview screening. All I can say is those candidates with personality and integrity issues never make it to my clients’ front door. They are screened out through our extensive screening and reference process.

If you anticipate a hiring need in your tax organization, please contact kat@etsearch.com or call 858.999.0053 X100 or text my cell at 858.232.4415 to receive a call back shortly.

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