CFOs Still Fighting to Retain Skilled Staff - Careers - CFO.com

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CFOs Still Fighting to Retain Skilled Staff >
Beyond offering extra bucks, finance chiefs are finding that reshaping jobs, providing community-service and fitness opportunities, and supplying ad hoc vacation days are good tools to use to hang on to skilled finance staff. >

Alix Stuart - CFO.com US >August 26, 2009 >

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The labor market is generally teeming with talent in search of work. But skilled finance and accounting employees are not necessarily any easier to find these days. Indeed, the accounting profession shed less than 2% of its jobs between June 2008 and June 2009, according to Ajilon Finance, and CFOs who have recently hired say salary levels remain high. >


When BlessingWhite surveyed some 7,500 employees around the world last year, including 270 U.S. finance employees, Rice found that perks didn't even make the top eight factors employees rated as key to their satisfaction. Instead, employees typically want more challenging work and more say in how it's done, plus a good relationship with their manager. "You can be working for a terrible place to work, but if you have a great relationship with your manager, that could mitigate a lot of the problems," says Rice.>

With that in mind, here are three ideas to consider as you seek to keep your best and brightest: >

1. Reshape jobs. >

2. Help employees reshape life outside work. >

3. Allow more time off and/or flexible work schedules. >

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