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Is Your Accounting Department Understaffed? How to Identify the Right Kind of Help

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The staff accountant hasn't left before 7 PM in weeks. The invoices get processed eventually, but reconciliations keep getting bumped, and everyone has quietly accepted that as normal. A few doors down, the CFO is two hours into a task that has nothing to do with strategy or forecasting—it's work that should belong to the controller role that's been vacant since spring. Meanwhile, every payroll question still routes to the former payroll coordinator, who got promoted six months ago but is still the bottleneck for a task that isn't supposed to be hers anymore. Ask any of them if the department needs help, and they...
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What to Do Before Posting a Job Opening: Questions to Answer First

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Two weeks into a search, a promising candidate asks the recruiter whether a specific certification is really required, or if the company would consider equivalent experience instead. The recruiter isn't sure, so she checks with the department head—who admits the job description posted for the role is outdated. The team has grown since it was last reviewed, and the work has shifted along with it. "Honestly, we've been struggling to fill this," the recruiter says. "No one seems to check every box. Are there any qualifications you'd be willing to compromise on?" The department head thinks so, but tha...
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Will AI Really Take Your Job? What We Know, What’s Uncertain, and How to Prepare

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Across industries, AI is becoming an integral part of day-to-day work, whether it's flagging defects on a manufacturing line, reconciling expense reports, or writing and debugging code. An AI tool can now do in seconds what used to take you an hour, and that can be both exciting and unsettling at the same time. Many people seem certain about what all this means for the future — they just don't all agree. Spend a few minutes scrolling social media or online forums, and you'll find someone confidently predicting AI will gut the workforce, right alongside someone just as confident it's about to unlock a wave of new ...
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