{"id":125978,"date":"2024-06-03t12:00:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-03t16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/?p=125978"},"modified":"2024-08-29t23:53:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30t03:53:08","slug":"hiring-experience-vs-training-inexperience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2024\/06\/03\/hiring-experience-vs-training-inexperience\/","title":{"rendered":"hiring experience vs. training inexperience"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/strong><\/p>\n invest your mentoring time where it matters most.<\/strong><\/p>\n by ed mendlowitz<\/i> question: <\/strong>we were looking for an additional experienced person since september and hired someone with five years experience in mid-november, but she said she couldn\u2019t start until january. she said she had work she had to finish up.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n two days before christmas she called to tell me her firm made her a \u201cbetter\u201d offer and she decided to stay there. it meant we had to enter busy season short a person. this seems to happen a lot. what do you suggest? first of all,<\/strong> you are hiring someone of questionable ability \u2013 you will only know what they can do after they are working for you a while.<\/p>\n second,<\/strong> you are hiring someone who was not happy where they were. what makes you think they will be happy with you?<\/p>\n maybe they were unhappy because:<\/p>\n third,<\/strong> you might be hiring an unhappy person.<\/p>\n danger signals:<\/p>\n a fourth reason<\/strong> is a legitimate one \u2013 it was their first job, and realized it wasn\u2019t for them, but stayed a year or two to learn as much as they could so they would be prepared for the next level. this could be a good person and they could be right on the mark because this frequently occurs in smaller firms. however, you will be hiring someone with two years of bad experience or training. why?<\/p>\n fifth, there is an exception,<\/strong> and that is that the firm they were working for had to lay off some staff. if that is the case, then you might be getting a real star, so pursue it. one way to \u201ctest\u201d that is to see their work history. did they have five jobs in 10 years, or one or two jobs?\u00a0 i would stay away from the person with five jobs.<\/p>\n my solution is simple, but not so simple. hire people out of school and train them properly in your systems, procedures, techniques, style and methods. this way you won\u2019t have to settle on what\u2019s available.<\/p>\n if you don\u2019t do this, think about your<\/strong> reality. on some basis, what you have been doing isn\u2019t working, so think about trying something new \u2013 something that the largest and most successful cpa firms have always done \u2013 hire people out of school! it is not so simple because most small firms don\u2019t want to hire people just out of school because they don\u2019t want to train them.<\/p>\n they also don\u2019t want to spend the time training and in many cases they may not know how to train. this puts you in a bind \u2013 between a rock and a hard place. well, that\u2019s the problem, isn\u2019t it? and you decide to \u201csolve\u201d your problem the same way all the time \u2013 hiring \u201cexperienced\u201d people. why not try the other way \u2013 the way that works for all<\/strong> the successful firms in our profession?<\/p>\n oh, back to the specifics of the question. if you hired out of school and trained them your way, you wouldn\u2019t have to put up with hiring people who \u201ccan\u2019t start\u201d yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" invest your mentoring time where it matters most.<\/strong>
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\nresponse:<\/strong> you have a common problem. you also \u201cinvest\u201d too much in looking for an experienced person where your chance of getting someone suitable is not good.<\/p>\n\n
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