This post is Part 2 of a series on Hiring Trends In Corporate Tax Departments: Rethinking How You Hire And Retain Tax Professionals. As an internationally recognized expert in search for tax executives with a long list of multinational clients, I must alert you that the seeds have been sown for the number of people who now desire to work from home. The horses are out of the barn and it will be a challenge to get them back in to headquarters. I have been communicating with lead tax executives, tax staff, recently reorganized tax departments, and everything is changing fast in hiring tax professionals around the world.

Despite the layoffs you see in some of the public accounting firms and the downsizing you see in organizations, there is a huge demand for technically trained tax expertise in many areas. Ask any corporate tax director searching for tax staff, and you will discover they are challenged to find and retain tax staff. Corporate tax executives may take months, and in some cases years, to fill their open tax positions. Look at the number of open tax opportunities on any job site and you will see the demand.
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