Last Friday, the BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) http://www.bls.gov/ released its most recent survey results showing 2007 Occupational Pay Comparisons Among Metropolitan Areas. Of course, the Darton Group team immediately leaped into the data specific to Charlotte and the finance profession. So what did we learn? Let’s begin by defining the term “pay relatives“. Pay relatives [...]
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Occupational Pay: Charlotte vs. Other Metro Areas
Posted in Compensation, Uncategorized, tagged BLS, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Charlotte Salaries, Occupational Pay, Pay Comparison, Pay Relatives, The Darton Group, Wage Surveys on July 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Flexible Work Arrangements
Posted in Workplace Trends, tagged Big Four, Big Seven, consulting, Flexible Work Programs, Public Accounting, Public Accounting Turnover, The Darton Group, Work-Life Balance on July 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Variety + Challenge. The senior-level consulting space in which The Darton Group specializes is ideally suited for those finance and accounting professionals who crave both variety and challenge in their careers. Flexibility? Many consultants represented by The Darton Group are also seeking to increase the “flex factor” in their work lives. And they are not [...]
Population Growth in Charlotte
Posted in Charlotte Region, In the News, tagged Charlotte jobs, Charlotte statistics, Darton Group, Mecklenburg County, The Charlotte Observer, U.S. Census Bureau, www.darton.com on July 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a standing joke in Charlotte that it is hard to meet a native of the Queen City. Trust us, the Darton team knows plenty of folks who can share stories of growing up in Charlotte. That said, we meet talented professionals from around the country on a daily basis in our offices. Tens of [...]
4 Tips to Optimize Your Career Search in Charlotte
Posted in Interviewing Tips, Networking, Resume Tips, tagged Charlotte, concentric networking, Darren Benoit, darton.com, dartongroup.com, Interviewing Tips, job hunting, Networking, Resume Tips, Rochelle Rivas, staffing in charlotte, STAR, The Darton Group, Wachovia, Wachovia job cuts on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
With the ongoing turmoil in the banking industry and yesterday’s announcement of 10,750 job cuts @ Wachovia, the employment market is a continued hot topic of discussion in the Queen City. Amidst this climate, the recruiting team @ The Darton Group is consistently being asked the following question… “How can I optimize my marketability in the [...]
LinkedIn – 10 Ways to Use
Posted in Networking, Technology, tagged Charlotte, Darren Benoit, Guy Kawasaki, How To Change the World, LinkedIn, Mark Weber, Networking, Rochelle Rivas, The Darton Group on July 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The team @ The Darton Group is known for being passionate networkers. As practitioners in the senior level finance + accounting space, we understand that in the Charlotte region, it’s all about “who you know”. During our networking meetings last week with highly experienced consultants in Charlotte, the topic of “LinkedIn“ came up on more than 1 [...]
Putting XBRL into Perspective…
Posted in Reporting, tagged Business Finance Magazine, Reporting, Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC, XBRL on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Eric Krell, a regular contributor to Business Finance magazine(http://businessfinancemag.com/), has published this week his perspectives on the buzz surrounding XBRL. Eric has been researching the practical implications of the SEC’s proposed XBRL rules, in which publicly listed companies would need to “tag” data in their financial statements by 2009 – 2011 (depending on the size of [...]
The MBA Pays…
Posted in Compensation, tagged Association for Financial Professionals, Compensation, MBA on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
19%. According to a just-released survey from the Association for Financial Professionals www.afponline.org, in 2007 financial professionals with an MBA earned salaries 19% higher than those with just a bachelor’s degree. Finance professionals’ salaries increased 4.5% on average in 2007, which was 36% higher than the national average increase for all professions. For individual job [...]
Introducing…The Darton Equation
Posted in The Darton Equation, tagged Charlotte Accounting, Charlotte Finance, Darton Blog, Darton Group, dartongroup.com, Senior-Level Finance and Accounting on July 18, 2008 |
Heavy workloads due to increased requirements, regulations and reporting. Demographic outlooks that cite shortages in highly skilled accounting and finance professionals. Add it all together and the marketplace is ripe with challenge…and opportunities. Introducing…The Darton Equation. Consider The Darton Equation a modern tool (some call it a web blog or blog) that [...]
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