St. Arnaud Pinsent Steman Chartered Professional Accountants is a highly rated full-service firm that offers accounting, audit, and tax services. Based in Edmonton, Alberta, their team of around 25 professionals has served more than 4,000 clients and has 50-plus years of experience.
When St. Arnaud Pinsent Steman Chartered Professional Accountants was looking to bring on an accounting and administrative assistant to join the team, the busy Canadian firm knew that hiring could take a significant time commitment. Yet their last hire, a summer student, was found by using the ResumeFree™ process.
The ResumeFree™ process reduced candidate screening time by almost two days and St. Arnaud Pinsent Steman was able to screen more than 200 applicants in just two weeks, saving time and money.
“The ResumeFree™ process saved me 15 hours per week of screening applicants by their résumés.”
—Jeannette Adams, CPA CA Principal
The Common Hiring Challenge For An Accounting Firm
When accounting firms look to hire for their team, not just anyone can select the next addition to the company. It usually takes the principals—high-level CPAs—lead the process of finding suitable talent. This in itself becomes the challenge. A principal’s time is highly valuable and for every minute they are away from servicing clients means longer hours, potentially missed deadlines, and worst of all unhappy clients.
For most firms hiring needs usually come second until it is absolutely required.
This delay in hiring can have a ripple effect across the office. Increased work load, harder to make deadlines, and finding the coverage for vacations and those unforeseen emergencies that can pop up. Studies have shown that extended a short-staffed environments boost the likelihood of burnout and employee dissatisfaction occurring.
Knowing the ResumeFree™ process had previously helped St. Arnaud Pinsent Steman with a student hire by showcasing the candidate’s soft skills, aptitude, and desire for growth, they wanted to repeat the magic found in the platform and test it on a critical position under a larger screening workload.
TalentTua With The ResumeFree™ Process: A Partnered Solution
The firm engaged the ResumeFree™ process again to support the screening of applications for more than 234 potential hires by using its platform.
What makes the platform so successful for St. Arnaud Pinsent Steman Chartered Professional Accountants?
The ResumeFree™ process gathers data for employers via candidate screening questions. The employers also select which soft skills, aptitudes, and work preferences they would like in an ideal candidate profile. This profile is created either from an existing job description or a custom tailored one is made. The system then creates a unique link and has applicants complete a simple behavioral assessment that takes approximately 35 minutes or less to complete. The results are analyzed and compiled into a spreadsheet for an at-a-glance view of top applicants, streamlining comparison and selection.
The best part – the Principals were able to continue growing their business by servicing clients while the ResumeFree™ process screened applicants to qualified candidates.
The ResumeFree™ process was able to provide St. Arnaud Pinsent Steman with full screening data on around 70 applicants. The entire platform under the TalentTua umbrella enabled near-real-time results, making selection of top applicants easier and less expensive for the firm—all without using résumés.
“Our hire was someone we would not have considered based on their résumé alone, and they turned out to be one of our best hires due to fit.”
—Jeannette Adams, CPA CA Principal