How To Proactively And Privately Secure A Head Of Tax Role

Posted on by Kat J

For those who may not know my reputation, I have been in tax executive search profession for over three decades. My team and I have successfully placed more than one thousand tax professionals within multinational corporations around the world. This record of tax executive placements was accomplished with the support of a top-notch team focused on introducing management level tax executives to corporations. The focus of this post is to help tax executives find and connect with the tax role of their dreams. When I tell you how this happens for tax executives, I know what I am talking about after surpassing the 1000 executive placements level of accomplishment. Listen when I tell you the executive search experience has changed over the years. This article is about sharing with you how to actively pursue the tax role of your dreams.

The secret to success is to be proactive and have an expert that knows what they are doing to represent you and make certain they are doing the work for you. Tax executives are like athletes (they are highly motivated individuals with the primary goal of improving their performances) who have invested a lot of time and money to grow professionally. There are three ways one can approach their tax career…actively, reactively, or proactively. Let me explain the ways and you can decide for yourself which category you are in right now.

Actively: You are a tax executive quietly communicating with a few recruiters with no loyalty to any person. You just tell the recruiter to keep me informed if you hear about a HOT role. Likewise, the tax recruiter is not loyal to you as they have access to thousands of HOT tax executive candidates to introduce to clients.

Reactively: Something just changed in your company reporting relationship where a new boss replaces your former boss. Your new boss has decided to reorganize the tax function, and your role is now reporting to a  Controller or CAO with little understanding of tax and how it is important to be part of business strategy while working closely with the CFO.

Proactively: You behave like an athlete and take a proactive approach to secure a corporate Head of Tax role by working with a dedicated agent working only for you. This involves loyalty from each party, and you have access to all the work being done on your behalf. Remember all great sports have Agents representing them and proactive tax athletes have one, too! Contact ki***@*****ch.com for information how this program works.

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ALERT: Learn How Tax Executives Are Searching For A New Tax Job…Privately 

Posted on by Kat J

With over thirty years of experience and more than one thousand tax executive placements conducted, I have a deep understanding of what tax executives face when searching for a new head of tax role. This post is intended to educate you that the process of securing a head of tax role has changed over the years and knowing this information will give you a huge advantage.  I will share with you my deep expertise in helping you in the process. You are going to learn what really happens behind the scenes on a job search. There is knowledge most tax executives do not have about a tax executive search, and it is important that you know this information to protect yourself.

Did you ever find yourself sending resumes into companies resume portals and never hearing back from them except for the standard letter?… “We will review your qualifications and get back to you if we have any interest.” What happens is that your resume goes into what we know as the big unknown hole…the resume portal.  You never hear back from anyone about your qualifications for the open tax job. Believe me, A.I. is not offering any better results in connecting you to the companies. Your resume is just more data for the company to have and hold or the outside party service provider to manage and hold. The problem is companies are collecting all your personal resume data, and you ultimately lose your privacy. If they collect your data from you, they own it. Are you aware that these online platforms are selling your data to make money? Yes, you are the product they are selling. My biggest concern is these sites are selling your online activity and engagement to your employers. In other words, your employers can buy what activity you are engaged in online because these companies may sell it. They can find out how much time you are spending throughout your workday on the site,  and they can tell what you are looking at on these mega sites. Your activity is tracked to sell to buyers of your data and engagement activity. What you may think is a free service promoting your professional profile is not free at all. The cost is that your data is sold as a commodity to anyone who will pay for it. The collection of your data and activity is how these mega sites make money. My biggest concern, and should be your concern, too, is let’s say your employer decides to do a major layoff throughout the company so they go to buy their employees activity on their sites. Therefore, if they check on your online activity and see you spend a couple of hours a day looking at tax jobs; what would they think about that as they contemplate a layoff? My advice to clients is to use a spouse or partners email when you go looking for a new tax job, so a tax executive job search is never traced back to you. You can also contact me at ki***@******ch.com and request our private placement services where we thoroughly research the market for you which maintains your privacy.

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