Human Capital
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Unified Search puts the power of Proformative at your fingertips
Check out our new site search. With a single, simple search you can see everything the site has to offer at once. That innocuous box at the top-right of every page now packs a serious punch. For example, if you type "financial reporting" as your search string, the search immediately shows you…
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Anonymous Posting is available on Proformative
Do you have something to ask the community but don't want your name next to it due to disclosure issues? Proformative has added the ability to post and comment anonymously in "trusted" groups. If you have already been vetted into a semi-private or private group by the moderator (as in many of ou…
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Reputation Management
The first class of my Online ID re-certification class was full of stats that I found quite interesting. If you're interested or curious, please read the post and then let's talk about it. As a finance leader, how do you see managing your online reputation as it relates to your career? Is it imp…
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CFOs: Extroverts vs. Introverts
Are CFOs introverts or extroverts? Does it matter? This conversation started in the CFO forum on Linked In. I blogged about it (and added that blog post to Proformative) and it was the most-read story on SmartBrief for CFOs last week. I thought we could continue the discussion here. What are …
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To Temp or Not to Temp, an Interesting Question
An interesting topic of conversation that has come up in recent conversations with former colleagues in the midst of a job transitions is whether it is better to accept contract (or temp) work in the interim to landing that next great job. My thoughts are that in this economic environment doin…
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Nurturing your Professional Network
In a recent conversation with a former work colleague he shared with me that he had not paid much attention to his professional network over the past few years as his job consumed his professional life. He asked for my advice regarding how to “re-engage” and expand his professional network. My …
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Wage Elasticity in the Current Market
In this market conditions may dictate changing industries which may mean that even the most qualified individuals will need to accept a pay cut to transition to an industry which offers long term stability. An interesting corollary to this issue is: what is the wage elasticity for qualified job …
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Building your Personal Brand Online
A challenge facing all professionals is developing and managing a "best in class" personal online brand. It is imperative in this job market to offer potential employers a strong personal value proposition that is much more than technical skills. I would like to share some specific tools and …
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Profile Pictures
I notice that more than 50% of us who joined this discussion to date don't have a profile picture. Remembering my comments from the webinar ... would you walk into a networking event with a brown paper bag on your head ... I'd love to hear your thoughts on the advantage(s) of NOT having a profil…
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Managing Cutback Staff
If you have cutback pay and cutback staff due to these economic and uncertain times, how are you managing/discussing adding more and more on to people? What is the messaging? Or if it's happening to you, do you just hold your peace and shut up and be thankful to have a job? Would love to hear…
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Soft factors to evaluate effectiveness of executive team
Has anyone considered using soft factors in evaluating the effectiveness of an executive team? For instance, we are considering items such as timeliness of response to questions/inquiries, sharing of knowledge, helping of others, courteous and professional conduct, overall behavior as a member…
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Executive Office qualifications are age bias and why does a CFO require a CPA. It's outsourced!
Into today's market, at middle age your resume has 15 or so years of expereince, but isn't everyone wanting to know the rest. I have been told to hide age and so use the 15 year rule but "did I get my MBA and start as a VP of Finance". Of course not but with telephone interviews the person on …
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ISO 401k service provider recommendations for small company <10 employees
Hi all, I am the COO at a small startup (8 employees currently) in Corvallis, OR. I am looking for recommendations for good, but reasonably priced, 401k providers. I have heard good things about Schwab (little or no fees and flexible investment options) and got a quote from Intuit ($75/month…
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Personal Brand
So I have been reading more lately about building one's "personal brand" or "on-line" brand. In general I like the notion of building my own brand. However, it is not exactly clear to me how I would go about doing that. I don't think there is one specific way to set about building a personal …
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The Expense You Can’t Afford
I just came from a summit of executives, where the hottest topic under discussion was talent acquisition. There was enthusiasm because talent is available. However, I was surprised to find that no one had a tangible plan for bringing in the right people. Given that we are emerging from an unprec…
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"You have too many years of experience and you can't teach a dog new tricks"
In today's market, it is getting harder to find job opportunities in both the finance and accounting fields for executives with over 20 years of experience. Today, companies are looking for the younger, less experienced employee ( 7-10 years) whom they can employ for less and think they will stay…
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CIO Reporting
we are a 300 person software company - growing reasonably well currently IT reports to CFO; primary mission has been a "utility" - security, responsiveness and availability, as well as web content management we are moving to add project management as a responsibility and adding a CIO to be respo…
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Employment Agreement template?
Can anyone share a Word doc containing a template or example of an employment agreement? Ideally, it would be for the CFO level and it would contain salary guidance/terms, non compete terms, non solicitation terms as well as termination terms. Thanks!
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Business School Re-Tooling
Given the massive financial meltdown we are living through, I have recently started to see articles and discussions as to whether business schools should be re-tooling their programs. My questions are: What re-tooling is really necessary? What is driving the perceived need, a discrediting of fin…
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When is the right time to hire a CFO at a small company?
I get asked this question all the time. So much so that I wrote a blog article about it here: https://www.proformative.com/blog/john-kogan/when-right-time-hire-cfo. I am curious what others think about this subject which is near and dear to the CEOs and VCs of the Valley.
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Looking for new 401k provider
I’m CFO of a ~100 person private company and am not terribly happy with my 401k provider. Their response is slow and their 401k management systems are sorely lacking. I want to put our 401k business out to bid. Anyone have any recommendations of 401k service providers in the SF Bay Area? Thanks.
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CFO collected wisdom
I thought it would be both interesting and useful to put this topic out there and see what CFOs think of as valuable lessons, worth passing on to others. This is not a post about "great thoughts". Some of them may be great thoughts, but others may be small pearls of wisdom or simply things you k…
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