accountancy recruitment decision solutions

1. Is there a "cultural fit"?

If you want to get your decision past those hooligans in Human Resources then answering this 'Yes' is a must.

Put simply, will the candidate meet your colleagues' expectations?

Put even simpler: Is the candidate a:

• standard costing STUNNER ?, or a
• management accounting MUNSTER ??

WARNING: Get this wrong and you will incur the eternal wrath of Barney the Owl.

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Note: you would be wise to learn more about Barney the Owl.

2. How Were They Dressed At Interview?

• brown suit
• suede shoes
• slippers or flip flops
• flippers
• nothing
• bell-bottom flares
• designer calculators
• strange stains on their trousers
• offensive accounting tattoos such as "Adverse Variance" or "Control Weakness"

Trust us. They will be more trouble than they're worth!!

3. How Did They Behave At Interview?

Cross from your list any candidates who spent the time:

• rocking backwards and forwards, humming
• looking out the window
• catching up on household admin
• writing texts
• standing by the exit
• clearing out their handbag
• writing shopping lists
• trying to remove strange stains from their trousers
• trying to remove strange stains from your trousers

4. Still Can't Make A Decision?

If you still can't decide between the candidates, why not have a wannabe-style 'Interview Off'?!

Call them into the staff restaurant and have each contestant recite some timeless accounting songs!

Ask some of your work shy accountancy colleagues to come along and vote for the winner!