Financial Additions, announces the release of it’s 2nd Quarter Job Market Survey. The survey is available for free upon request.
Since 1999, Financial Additions, with additional offices in Fort Worth, Los Angeles, and San Diego, California, has striven to be a preferred source of highly qualified accounting and finance professionals as well as an accurate resource of current financial job market information. Recently, Financial Additions invited over 25,000 hiring managers and HR professionals to participate in a current jobs market survey from national, regional, as well as local market perspectives. Those responses are included in the survey.
As long time veterans of the accounting search and staff augmentation market, Financial Additions continues to be surprised by the trends and swings in the hiring market. “Even in our specialty of accounting and finance, it seems that we never spend too much time in the sweet spot of the market where the number of positions and the number of quality active candidates are in equilibrium,” said Doug Hall, Managing Partner. “In the last year, some of our clients, who hadn’t added additional headcount in 2-3 years, went into a hyper drive expansion. The result has been that demand for highly qualified accountants has never been higher while the supply of candidates has not been able to keep up with demand.”
Overall the 2nd quarter results were as expected from what the company actually views on a daily basis. The sample of results is drawn from: 48% Accountants, 17% Finance Managers, 18% Human Resources, 7% Tax and 5% Audit Managers. The respondents are the managers who are in charge of hiring in the accounting and finance space. Hall added, “The great news from this sample is that more than 65% of respondents saw the overall financial job market improving. Over 40% of them thought that their organizations would be hiring this year. These numbers were only in the 20% range just a couple of years ago.”
To view the entire press release, click here. To request your free copy of the 2nd Quarter Job Market Survey, click here.