| Thinking of changing careers? When it comes to making a plan, you've got to sweat the details. That and more in this week's CareerWire. Staying Afloat While Switching Careers: Guidance with career transitions is a staple of the career advice business. For many switchers, however, one of the highest hurdles has nothing to do with jobs or skills; it is simply how to survive - as in, meet your essential living expenses - while going through the transition.
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Another Wrinkle for Smaller Companies: It's no surprise that CFOs at small public companies are sweating under the glass. When it comes to addressing Sarbanes-Oxley, they've had to struggle with changing guidance, high bills from outside auditors, and a dearth of candidates for the jobs they need filled in order to keep pace with truckloads of new accounting work that comes along with compliance. Not only that, some are worrying about the impact the increased overhead will have on their competitiveness.
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How Promoting Women Pays Off: Talk as they might about retention and progressiveness, accounting firms in Britain aren't doing a particularly good job at promoting women. "(T)here are as many women as men within accountancy, but few attain partnership status. And within the Big Four, female partnership appointments have dropped by a third in the past year," writes Paul Bibby in Accountancy Age.
That's too bad, because having more diversity in the management and executive ranks seems to have a positive impact on company performance, he says.
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Grant Thornton Acquires Pa. Consulting Group: Three partners and 50 professionals from GR Consulting have joined Grant Thornton after the accounting firm purchased the consulting unit of Goldenberg Rosenthal. With the acquisition, Grant Thornton has about 225 people in the Philadelphia region. (GR is based in suburban Jenkintown, Pa., though Rick Gebert, Grant Thornton's managing partner in Philadelphia, told the Philadelphia Business Journal his plan is to ultimately move the group into the city.
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Reality Check, Anyone?: You may not want to hear this, but some headhunters call accountants "potted plants." The reason: You don't switch jobs very often. In fact, there's a perception that accountants tend to stay at the same place because however uncomfortable the frying pan is, they figure it's just got to beat the fire. So imagine our surprise when our poll asking "How much career risk are you comfortable with?” got these results:
· I would change jobs without looking back - 39%
· If I see a good job, I go for it - 43%
· I am often looking for another job - 11%
· I look at job ads, but am afraid of getting caught - 8%
Better than 80 percent would change jobs easily? Really? We feel like we're being tweaked. If so many are willing to jump, how come so few accountants seem to be jumping?
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Take Our Poll: Do you plan to switch jobs in 2008? Let us know by taking our poll on JobsintheMoney.
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Forums: Don't forget you can ask questions, give answers, or just generally say how you feel about work in JobsintheMoney's forums. You can reach them here. Yes, you have to register but that's about keeping spammers away.
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