CalCPA 2021 Salary Survey – Published June 23

Four years ago, in conjunction with the California Society of CPAs (CalCPA), Premier Financial Search launched an annual, comprehensive survey to evaluate compensation at all firm levels within the state.

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Virtual Onboarding: Tactics for Successful Engagement

COVID-19 has changed the way Americans work. Finance professionals, CPAs, and the firms that employ them are seeing the impact. While deploying a remote workforce was largely reactive, in some sectors, it is proving to be a durable and even preferred arrangement.

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Virtual Placement – How to Know When You’re Ready to Hire Entirely Remote

Urgent and unavoidable: these were two words that describe how most companies viewed remote work arrangements over the past year. Now, however, what started as a temporary setup is becoming a solid state. As national leaders in financial recruiting and placement, the team at Premier Financial Search is watching this transition play out. There are…

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The KEY to Making Job Relocation Smooth and Easy

People everywhere are limiting themselves to a smaller radius of living due to the costs and fears involved in relocating. While the decision to relocate anywhere involves a great deal of consideration, it doesn’t have to be as daunting and expensive as perceived. So what, do you ask, is the key to making this madness attainable? A recruiter!

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Debunking 5 Myths About the Benefits of Private Industry

Ryan Olstad, Research Associate There’s an unfortunately common idea among accountants that public accounting is just a source of 2-6 years experience used to eventually obtain a job in private industry. If you are looking to make the switch from public to private, allow us to debunk the myths that might be motivating you:

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Job Searching Made Easy

We work with Tax, Audit and Accounting professionals within CPA firms in cities across the United States and have 18 years of experience in doing so. Here are just a few of the places we work in:

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Getting to Know You: How PFS is Unique

Congratulations! You’ve decided to take the next step in your career by working with a recruiter. Ready for your hard work and experience to pay off, you excitedly open the email they’ve sent you about a job opportunity. But… there’s a problem. It’s not appealing to you. Maybe the firm is too big for your…

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You Get the Offer…Now What?

Your resume stood out from the crowd. You were invited in for an interview. You aced the interview and of course followed up by sending thank you notes. The second interview went even better than the first. The call comes in; you’ve been offered the job. Now what?

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Beyond The Big 4

Did you know that there are options beyond The Big 4? If you already work at a Big 4 firm or are planning to in the future, have you ever stopped to ask yourself, “why?” Sure, it was the natural choice. It was right there in front of you. It was what everyone else was…

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