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At last, a ray of sunshine for small companies desperately seeking accounting or finance types in this tight job market. According to
Accountemps, a unit of staffing agency Robert Half International, accounting and finance grads would now rather work at small and midsize
companies -- eclipsing big ones as the preferred employers by a long shot. That's the result of a survey of 1,400 chief financial officers at
companies with 20 employees and up.
Thirty-five percent of the CFOs say the grads they see want to work for a smaller company. Twenty-two percent said big companies still are
favored. Thirteen percent said a small to midsize accounting firm is the grads' top choice, while 7% said the favored berth is at a startup
accounting shop or other new company.
How valid is the survey? A breakdown shows that the CFOs are more than a little biased toward their own type of company. Thirty-seven percent
of those at companies with between 20 and 49 employees swore that small companies rate tops with new recruits, whereas 44% of the CFOs at
companies with more than 1,000 staffers said large public accounting firms are favored.
Still, small companies are clearly getting respect as competitors for jobs. More than 20% of the CFOs at the biggest companies said small
business ranks first.
By
Julia Lichtblau
in New York
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