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Before Hiring Your Next Accountant, Ask These 5 Questions | Kewho Min
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Before You Hire Your Next Accountant, Ask These 5 Questions by Kewho Min | Sep 1, 2016 | Accounting, Money, Professional Development |
If you’re looking to hire an accountant, you want to be able to draw the line between quali ed, self-possessed candidates and candidates who are able to blu their way through the interview. Finding the right t for your company is tricky, and a bad hire could end up majorly costing you in the long run. So how do you separate the good from the bad hires? Ask your candidates these 5 questions to gauge whether or not they’ll be an appropriate t for your business. 1. What are the top skills that every great accountant possesses? Typically, when posed with this question, candidates will often answer with what they believe to be their best attributes. Good candidates are ones who will include hard and soft skills, like pro cient knowledge of big data concepts and great customer relation skills, respectively. The best of the bunch are the ones who can provide examples of when they’ve implemented and developed these skills in previous positions. 2. Tell us about a time when you made an error in accounting and detail how you handled the situation. Any candidate who claims they’ve never made a mistake is a major red ag. Everyone at some point makes mistakes, so look for the candidates who readily admit that they’ve made mistakes, owned up to them, and corrected them as best as they were able. Mistakes happen, but the best
Hiring any new employee is an important process in the development of the company.
employees will be the ones who take the initiative to rectify their mistakes.
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