Candidate evaluation companies firm Accountests introduced the discharge of its new Accountants Persona Profile Questionnaire, which corporations can use to evaluate potential new hires when it comes to private behaviors and traits. The corporate primarily based its checks on a examine of about 300 accountants within the U.S., U.Ok., New Zealand and Australia.
The check, which takes about 20 minutes to finish, is designed to look at accounting-specific challenges in realms like ethics, relationship-building, including worth and dealing with stress, particularly because it pertains to altering accounting roles and consumer expectations. Upon finishing the check, a report is generated that features mechanically populated interview questions and profession growth plans.
With these, in line with Accountests director Steve Evans, corporations can consider whether or not somebody is extra of a “back-room quantity cruncher” or “strategic enterprise advisor.”
“At this time’s accountant wants to supply imaginative and prescient and artistic considering and a much wider repertoire of expertise, and is not simply answerable for sustaining accounts and funds; now, they want a broader set of enterprise expertise, as a trusted strategic enterprise advisor,” he mentioned in a press release.
The corporate mentioned that the check builds on a 2016 examine from the Affiliation of Chartered Licensed Accountants that went into the sorts of expertise accountants will want in a altering world, together with artistic and emotional intelligence, technical expertise and moral foundations, digital fluency, and imaginative and prescient and expertise. The brand new check assesses candidates on these options and extra.