Why We Care About the Personal Touch in Recruitment
At SBF, we’ve turned finding our next team members into an art by caring about the whole process - and communicating clearly why we might be a good match.
Maybe you found Spoor Bunch Franz through a job posting on LinkedIn or Indeed, or on a college career site. Maybe you learned more from a friend or former colleague who came to work with us. Maybe you’re just looking to break out from the Big 4 or to transition out of your old career into accounting. However you came across SBF, we might be looking for someone like you — and we take our recruitment processes seriously.
Our employees have honored us repeatedly over the past few years with best workplace recognitions alongside a number of excellent Tampa Bay area companies. We’ve consistently found that hiring the best people and supporting them with an exemplary team and office environment helps us do our best work for our clients.
SBF’s general recruitment and hiring philosophy really does come down to looking for good people. If you share our values and you’re a self-starter and willing to learn, we can train you, even if you don’t have deep experience in accounting. We’d also like to make our relationship a lasting one. We never want anyone to wonder how they’re going to grow at SBF or whether we’re sufficiently supporting them in their growth.
More often than not, a potential SBF team member starts their hiring journey with Kiana Lunay, our Recruiting and Marketing Coordinator. Kiana knows our whole applicant pool, and she’s constantly checking it for possible matches whenever a new position opens up. We believe in keeping a human touch wherever it makes sense; this means you’re not being filtered out by an algorithm before we decide if we’d like to learn more about you.
Most of our recruits are local to the region, but that’s not always the biggest factor in our hiring.
“We’re always open to meeting the next potential team member, at any level,” says Kiana. “We just moved someone here from Texas, and somebody else from Washington state. We haven’t done targeted outreach to different regions, but we do get candidates who are looking to move to Florida.”
One reason candidates seek us out is our commitment to a healthy work-life balance. In general, when we hire people away from bigger firms, they’re often tired of working someplace where they don’t feel their employer cares about their day-to-day lives. That’s not us, and during the interview process, we paint that picture as clearly as possible, so that candidates who are good matches with us will feel at home at SBF.
We try to recruit with an open mind. Over the past few years, some of our best team members are people who are in their second or third careers. Still, one of the most effective ways we find new additions to the SBF crew is through personal referrals. We incentivize that with referral bonuses, but we trust our employees’ judgment about whether someone would be a good candidate.
If you’re interested in joining SBF, we would love to hear from you. If your qualifications don’t precisely line up with what we’ve posted jobs-wise, get in touch anyway.
Our goal is to find, hire and ultimately retain the top candidates in our field. We hope our interview process reveals enough about our company and its culture to clearly show why prospective hires should choose our firm. That’s how we build an exceptional team to best serve our clients: When we stay true to ourselves, if we’re working with good people, and we treat our people well, we’re well on our way.
