There is no one who understands the business of people who are laid off better than I do. Over thirty years, I have dealt with tax professionals who have been laid off for a wide range of reasons due to mergers, acquisitions, seasonal tax work, and a variety of other reasons. What I want to bring attention to in this blog post are the companies who get ripped off by outplacement firms; and the tax professionals who waste their time working with people who never really help them at all. With an average cost of $1000 to $3500 per person in an outplacement firm, it would be fine if it worked for tax professionals but I have yet to meet any tax professional helped by these services. The reason I know this is that thousands of tax professionals placed in outplacement programs have called me over the years for help and told me outplacement was of little to no help to them! What is the solution? What can a head of tax do if they are forced to lay off one or more people in their tax department? What is the nicest thing you can do for a tax professional when you must lay them off?
TaxConnections developed a real solution that has the best chance for a positive outcome. You are going to get a straight up answer on how this all works from an expert who knows how to help tax professionals find tax jobs. The nicest thing you can do for someone you need to lay off in tax organization is make certain they get access to the following link: How To Find A Tax Job athttps://www.taxconnections.com/resource_library/How_to_find_a_tax_job . You can read step by step how I walk tax professionals through the process and hold their hands with these 12 straight up lessons. These lessons include: How To Get To The Top Of The Tax Profession; Resume Template; Building Your Online Professional Summary; Contact A Hiring Manager; How To Approach A Hiring Manager; Types Of Interviews; 10 Great Questions To Ask During An Interview; Ten Top Interview Mistakes; What To Wear To An Interview; How To Handle References; Compensation Discussions; and more. These lessons will be more helpful to a tax professional than sending them off wasting time with people who will most likely run them through a program of little value to them. Give them a program that will place their tax reputations in front of leaders of tax organizations worldwide, many leaders who are going to find themselves in a position to hire another tax professional. Invest $299.95 in the tax professional you need to lay off in order to help them position their tax reputations on www.taxconnections.com where they can state they are available to potential employers.
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Kat Jennings, TaxConnections, CEO and Founder and Advisory Team provides three areas of services: 1) Internationally recognized, retained executive search services for multinational corporations, public accounting firms, and law firms; 2) Introductions of sellers to buyers of small and medium size accounting firms; and 3) Provide brand building and education services that support and prepare accounting firm owners to buy/sell an accounting practice. We focus on educating the journey to sell a practice and how to increase firm revenue prior to any sale. Our program ensures you start years prior to a sale by learning what is expected of you during the selling process, and introducing firm Partners to cross selling opportunities that are easy to implement and reduce your workload at the same time. We introduce you to value added connections to smartly grow revenue in your accounting practice.
Kat Jennings has been retained by organizations worldwide to locate tax professionals with highly specialized tax knowledge and expertise. She has a thorough understanding of the tax business community, with a proven record of stellar performances matching professionals with organizations. Bringing two parties together to work successfully is the art of understanding personalities, cultural fit, expectations by both parties, flexible or inflexible work environments, understanding what drives and motivates each party, and revolves around the personality and ethics of each executive team.
Kat is a widely recognized expert in high level, tax executive search, as well as connecting buyers and sellers of accounting firms. TaxConnections provides and educates small to medium size accounting firms owners and Partners how to prepare and sell their firms so they can build a succession plan for their retirement. With larger firms seeking to acquire smaller accounting practices, there is a real need to help firm owners prepare to be acquired. Most firm owners are unaware they are not ready to sell when they decide to retire. TaxConnections educates firm owners’ what they need to do years in advance of selling an accounting firm practice.
Senior tax executives expect the utmost privacy when being introduced to multinational organizations about a new tax opportunity under consideration. Having said that, companies searching for a new head of tax expecting tax executive candidates to submit their resume through a resume portal, will never see a full slate of outstanding tax executives available due to a candidates’ desire for greater privacy. This is why privacy focused Uber Tax Recruiters consistently outperform in-house recruiters on tax executive searches.
We offer our clients a Performance Retainer Agreement arrangement so their HR department can still recruit and compete with the tax candidates we present on Head of Tax searches. The client pays us a partial fee upfront, and if they find a candidate they deem better than we introduce to them, we forfeit the final fee. Most of the time, they love and prefer our private introductions to tax executive candidates better than what they source through their own resume portals.
When we represent selling/buying small to medium-sized firms, firm owners/partners also demand greater privacy when considering the sale of their practice. TaxConnections provides a safe place to discuss their business needs, elevate their practices’ online reputation, and increase revenue through new streams of business development by outsourcing work and partnering with other firms. Over three decades, we have worked tirelessly to build relationships between firm owners most organizations rarely have access to in the world of tax. There are numerous possibilities you may never have considered previously to bolster the value of your practice and service offerings.
As a globally recognized consultant to multinational organizations, accounting firms, and law firms searching for tax expertise, Kat has been retained by public accounting firms, law firms, and corporations worldwide including Apple Computer, AC Neilson, Accenture, Agilent Technologies, Allergan, Alza, American Express, American Media, Aon, Baker & McKenzie, Barclays Bank, Bechtel, Cargill, Carl Zieuss Vision, Century Aluminum, Chevron, Clorox, Citigroup, Commercials Metals, Constellation Energy, Countrywide, Del Monte, Deloitte Touche, DFS, DLA Piper, E&J Gallo Winery, Electronic Arts, Ernst &Young, Fox Entertainment, Fremont Investments, General Electric,General Motors, Herbalife, Hewlett Packard, Hyatt, Intel, Jones Lang LaSalle, Kimco Realty, KLA Tencor, Koch Industries, KPMG, Levi Strauss, Liberty Mutual, LKQ, Loews, Logitech, Lucas Film, Maersk, McKesson, Nalco, Newell Rubbermaid, Nissan, Oracle, Orbitax, Pacific Gas & Electric, PwC, QAD, SAIC, SanDisk, Sanmina, Sempra Energy, SONY, Synopsys, Ticketmaster, Trimble Navigation, Toyota, Univar, Wal-Mart, Wells Fargo, Vertex, Yahoo, Xilinx, and many more not listed here.
Contact Kat at 858,999.0053 Office/858.232.4415 Cell or kat@taxconnections.com to request a private consultation regarding the sale of your practice, adding top talent to your organization, or merging your practice with another firm owner with a book of business. The possibilities are endless; if you have a dream of a new vision for your professional life; we will scout opportunities throughout the market to make it happen.
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