Recruiting professionals cannot have this to happen.  These are some on my random thoughts for Employers and Candidates!  After 18 years as a recruiter, I have had a frustrating two weeks in the biz!  Why?  My Employers and Candidates are doing their best 007 impressions.

First, I had a candidate look up my services and send a resume.  However, when I contacted the candidate and attempted to profile them for the position of interest, her/she did not want to disclose information about his/her background.   The candidate state,  ”I only want to speak to the employer!”   Sorry, can’t do it!  You contact me.  You are seeking new employment.  However, you are dictating to me how I should work with you in representing you to my client.  NOT going to happen!

Secondly, a new Employer contacted me.  Great!   Things are looking good for the market.  We worked out the service agreement, then I was instructed to “READ the job description” and “SEND resumes!”  Don’t speak the Hiring Managers, only contact HR!  If I contact a Hiring Manager, my contract will be null and void.  WHAT!!!   You want me to spend my time, sourcing and profiling candidates, package their resumes in an email, send to HR and HOPE the Hiring Manager chooses at least one person to interview.  Not going to happen!

Noticed I stated, both individuals CONTACTED ME!  Should I be grateful?  Yes.  However, if you want results, I cannot “Hit the Target” Blindfolded!

Notice the exclamation points!  Yes, I am silently yelling.  And, maybe they are yelling back at me.  However, something’s must give with the drawing the line methods from Employers and Candidates.  Recruiters thrive on information.  Knowledge is power.  Most of all, Knowledge = Placements!

Mr. or Ms. Candidate.  Mr. HR or Ms. HR.  No info leads to an ill prepared recruiter.  And my first shots will be off the mark!

If you want results.  Let me do my job.  Information and knowledge from “true” hiring managers only allow for faster and better placements.  If you don’t share, you’ll be frustrated as well.

Enough with the venting session.  Tell me what you think.

Kyle T. Mosley

Recruiting Daze: Shooting Blindfolded never Works!

Prepares income and balance sheet statements, consolidated statements, and various other accounting statements and reports. Analyzes financial reports and records, making recommendations relative to the accounting of reserves, assets, and expenditures. Reviews and verifies the accuracy of journal entries and accounting classifications assigned to various records. Conducts special studies and develops or recommends accounting methods and procedures. Instructs or assigns work to bookkeepers and accounting clerks engaged in general accounting activities. Coordinates accounting matters with other departments, locations and divisions. Utilizes computer to input, retrieve or display accounting information.

Level 1
Experience: Typically has up to 3 years professional experience. Can be entry level for employees with Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent. OR For legal positions, those with J.D. or LL.B. or equivalent. Knowledge: Knows fundamental concepts, practices and procedures of particular field of specialization.

Responsibilities: Using established procedures and working under immediate supervision, performs assigned tasks. Work is routine and instructions are usually detailed. Little evaluation, originality or ingenuity is required. For legal positions, may prepare briefs and documents or draw up contracts for review and evaluation by others. Usually Reports to: Lead Level

Level 2
Experience: Typically has 3-5 years professional experience. Knowledge: Knows and applies the fundamental concepts, practices and procedures of particular field of specialization.

Responsibilities: Under supervision, performs work that is varied and that may be somewhat difficult in character, but usually involves limited responsibility. Some evaluation, originality or ingenuity is required. Usually Reports to: Lead Level

Level 3
Experience: Typically has 5-8 years of professional experience. Fully competent professional – the first career level in the ladder (i.e., it is expected that all competent professionals will reach this level). Knowledge: Possesses and applies a broad knowledge of principles, practices, and procedures of particular field of specialization to the completion of difficult assignments. For legal positions, specializes in a particular area, such as litigation, tax, patent, etc.

Responsibilities: Usually works with minimum supervision, conferring with superior on unusual matters. May be assisted by Entry/Junior or Intermediate Level personnel. Assignments are broad in nature, usually requiring originality and ingenuity. Has appreciable latitude for unreviewed action or decision. For legal positions, acts in advisory capacity, making recommendations which may have an important bearing on the conduct of the organization’s business. Usually Reports to: Lead Level or Middle Management

Level 4
Experience: Typically has more than 8 years professional experience. Management is typically the next higher level. Knowledge: Possesses and applies comprehensive knowledge of particular field of specialization to the completion of complex assignments. For legal positions, is fully qualified in a particular area, such as in litigation, tax, patent, etc.

Responsibilities: Under general supervision, plans, conducts and supervises assignments. Reviews progress and evaluates results. In legal setting, conducts and supervises broad legal assignments, necessitating ability to evaluate matters which may have a major bearing on the conduct of the organization’s business. Plans and assigns personnel for given projects or tasks. Assists with the review and evaluation of personnel performance. Interprets and applies organization policy. Recommends changes in procedures. Operates with substantial latitude for unreviewed action or decision. Reviews progress with management. Usually Reports to: Upper Middle Management or Top Management.

Send resumes to Andrea L. Mosley at amosley@kamcon.com or Kyle T. Mosley at kmosley@kamcon.com.

Accountant Opening (Houston)

Key Responsibilities:
• Execution of timely and accurate US month end closing, reporting and analysis versus
forecast
• Preparation of quarterly, monthly and weekly forecast information working in close
collaboration with the Americas leadership team
• Design, implementation and monitoring of internal control processes for both finance and
non-finance business processes and rapid communication and action to address areas of
weakness, including balance sheet verification; SOD; Sox process documentation and
execution; budgetary controls; IT system controls; and safeguarding of company assets
• Assessment and planning for the development of the finance organization to
align with business strategy and growth and in a cost effective way
• Identify/initiate/drive/police cost reduction and cash improvement projects to improve the
financial performance of the region
• Ownership of regional cash, treasury, legal and insurance related matters working with
the corresponding corporate functions.
• Play a strong role in the global business transformation and ERP [Oracle] strategic
initiative to ensure that the commercial and regulatory requirements for the Americas are
understood and embraced
• Partner with the Regional Business Leader and management team to challenge and
contribute to operating plans and decisions, and provide financial guidance to the team.
• Preparation of statutory accounts and tax returns and other statutory filing requirements
for all legal entities and operations outside of the USA
• Involvement with future acquisitions including due diligence and integration activities

Key Relationships:
The Americas controller will be the go to person for all financial matters in the region – key
network will include :
• Business Leader and Leadership team
• Finance organization – both HT and sister businesses
• Finance Dept. and Financial Leadership Team
• Any corporate functions including treasury, tax, internal audit, external reporting
• External contacts including external auditors, bankers, insurance, tax advisors

Required Capabilities (describe scope of knowledge and ability of the position):
Qualified accountant with 10 years of relevant experience including :
• Management of a team with remote members
• Demonstrated ability to constructively challenge, influence and persuade commercial and
operations management
• Demonstrated ability to add value to commercial performance
• Demonstrated responsibility financial control and reporting for a complex organisation
including non-US subsidiaries
• Advanced system and analytical skills [Excel/Hyperion]. Oracle experience would be an
advantage.
Contact Kyle T. Mosley at kmosley@kamcon.com (email) to send your resume or questions regarding the position.

Finance Manager – Houston

Careerbuilder has listed 20 “BIG SALARY” jobs that do not require a degree. Here is the list:

1. Margin department supervisor
Salary: $83,579/year
Primary duties: Overseeing a company’s credit department, which manages customer credit accounts and approves or denies credit to customers.

2. Air traffic controller
Salary: $74,922/year
Primary duties: Controlling air traffic around airports according to established procedures and policies to ensure flight safety.

3. Automobile service station manager
Salary: $72,246/year
Primary duties: Supervising gas stations and planning and implementing policy and procedure like hours of operation, workers’ duties and prices for products and services.

4. Real estate broker
Salary: $71,994/year
Primary duties: Securing real-estate transactions, selling real estate, renting properties and arranging loans.

5. Web surfer
Salary: $70,604/year
Primary duties: Scouring through multiple Web sites to analyze and compare information and user experiences to collect information to help companies understand online users’ behaviors.

6. Lead carpenter
Salary: $63,345/year
Primary duties: Leading the on-site completion of construction projects and performing all types of carpentry work and finishing.

7. Cable supervisor
Salary: $60,887/year
Primary duties: Supervising the activities of workers engaged in installation, maintenance and cable repair.

8. Chemical supervisor
Salary: $57,472/year
Primary duties: Overseeing workers who make chemical products, verifying that chemical processes are followed.

9. Home-care aide supervisor
Salary: $56,157/year
Primary duties: Directing aides who mind for elderly or disabled people in a home environment, and monitoring the quality and quantity of services provided.

10. Medical facility housekeeping manager
Salary: $55,368/year
Primary duties: Managing the workers and housekeeping program in medical facilities to uphold sanitary and orderly conditions.

11. Flight service manager
Salary: $54,350/year
Primary duties: Ensuring that flight attendants conform to personal appearance and preflight requirements; compiling flight reports.

12. Locomotive engineer
Salary: $54,084/year
Primary duties: Driving electric, diesel-electric or gas-turbine-electric trains to transport passengers or freight.

13. Interior aircraft assembly supervisor
Salary: $53,606/year
Primary duties: Supervising the process of assembling everything for the inside of an aircraft from mechanics to furniture.

14. Painting supervisor
Salary: $51,977/year
Primary duties: Overseeing all painting activities such as mixing paint, preparing surfaces before painting and applying decorative or protective finishes to various structures.

15. Gas plant operator
Salary: $51,676/year
Primary duties: Maintaining certain pressures in pipelines to produce and/or transport natural gas.

16. Payroll supervisor
Salary: $51,410/year
Primary duties: Managing employees working on company payroll, ensuring that pay calculation is in accordance with company policy, government regulations and tax codes.

17. Assembly supervisor
Salary: $50,462/year
Primary duties: Overseeing workers who use power tools and other equipment to assemble products.

18. Credit and collection supervisor
Salary: $50,330/year
Primary duties: Supervising employees engaged in the review of credit risks and collections; may also review client credit history to grant or deny extensions of credit.

19. Data control supervisor
Salary: $50,310/year
Primary duties: Managing data entry workers and assuming responsibility for those workers’ tasks to be complete and accurate; may sometimes assist with assignments.

20. Reimbursement recovery specialist
Salary: $49,246/year
Primary duties: Negotiating cases where third-party liability reimbursement exists by investigating and identifying responsible third parties, then paying out those parties.

Source: CNN and Careerbuilder

20 Big Salaried Jobs: No Degree Required

This position provides key financial and business support. It helps identify problem areas throughout the region, drives business improvement measures, provides financial analysis support to the Sales, Service Operations, and Manufacturing Operations groups, and assists in the budget and forecast process.

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare key business analysis of sales, gross profits, and selling, administrative & engineering (SAE) expenses to assist functional leaders in decision-making processes. Investigate trends and variances compared to prior periods and forecasts.
• Publish monthly management reporting package.
• Lead the month-end balance sheet account reconciliation process.
• Point person for corporate reporting requests and Hyperion reporting within the division.
• Assist in the preparation of the annual plan and quarterly forecasts. Work closely with the Finance Leader and Controller to drive forecast ownership, accountability and reporting into the organization.
• Work closely with the sales department to ensure that all commissions and customer incentive programs are properly accrued for.
• Help maintain a strong internal control structure throughout the organization.
• Ad hoc financial analysis and special projects to support continued growth of the business
• Learn and apply lean manufacturing methodologies to support continuous improvement
job requirements

Responsibilities
• Bachelor’s degree in Business with specialization in Accounting or Finance and CPA certification strongly preferred or in the process of obtaining.
• Minimum 3 to 5 years of manufacturing/service business analysis and/or finance is required.
• Specific experience in budget and financial forecast preparation plus review/analysis of variance from same, preparation of product cost estimates and related price quotations/recommendations, preparation of summary schedules and related commentary for these areas is preferred.
• Knowledge of finance and business measurements: expense performance, rate of return, depreciation, working capital, investment, etc.
• Ability to prepare forecasts and analyze trends in manufacturing, sales, finance, and general business conditions.
• Strong skills in account analysis, problem solving, attention to detail, and writing of commentary and analytical summaries.
• Strong project management skills to champion projects.
• Knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles.
• Excellent organization skills, with the ability to rapidly and accurately analyze a situation to arrive at an effective decision.
• Proficiency using electronic spreadsheet, database, word processing and graphical presentation software, preferably Microsoft Office applications is required.
• Hyperion knowledge is preferred. Experience Required Footer

Sr. Financial Analyst

Key Responsibilities:
Prepare customer invoices for equipment rental and on-site services performed.
Perform collection calls with customers to arrange payment of past due accounts.
Contact customers and/or sales personnel to resolve open items.
Provide weekly report-out to cash collections committee regarding status or specific details of past due accounts.
Obtain and analyze credit information to assist the Finance Leader and Controller with determining credit limits for new accounts or increase limit for existing accounts.
Prepare analysis of credit memos issued and determine root cause.
Process monthly customer statements.
Interface with sales, customer service, operations and other finance team members.

Required Capabilities:
3+ years experience in a corporate business environment in Accounts Receivable processing, Customer Service or Credit/Collections.
Associates or Bachelor’s degree in related fields a plus, but not required.
Strong computer skills preferably using Microsoft Office applications. Ability to operate multiple computer applications required.
Knowledge of general ledger accounting basics required.
Excellent communication skills in interacting with people at all levels including outside customers, sales, management, other outside credit people.
Bilingual (Spanish) a plus, but not required.

Send your resume to: Kyle T. Mosley at kmosley@kamcon.com or contact 281.412.5800 to apply for this position.

Billing Specialist

Negotiates pricing, delivery schedules and places purchase orders with suppliers in company procurement system module. PO’s are placed based on approved requests, approved requisitions, buy cards, or other automatic order systems such as kanban, programs and any other appropriate pull systems. This includes data entry, printing, sending and filing of purchase orders ensuring necessary drawings, specifications, and special information is part of purchase order and forwarded to suppliers

Place and manage inter-company purchase orders for spot buys and supermarket inventories managing related pull systems.

Accountable for management of new products inventory, including monthly evaluation and reporting of inventory levels and categories.

Controls, manages and reports the slow moving and obsolete inventory levels through standardized SLOB inventory management processes. Takes appropriate actions and communicates inventory information to appropriate company teams.

Procurement Coordinator

Our client is looking to fill an Aftermarket Program Manager immediately. The Aftermarket Program Manager will provide overall direction and management to a specific project or contract through all its manufacturing phases and installation phases. This person is responsible for program control, creating a marketing plan, outside sales effort, labor and material budgets, cost reporting, coordination of resources, master scheduling, planning, and continual capacity analysis to resolve bottlenecks.

REQUIREMENTS:

1. BS or BA degree preferred (NOT REQUIRED)…experience can override BS or BA degree.
2. 5+ years SUCCESSFUL AFTERMARKET experience in related field (Industrial or Manufacturing)
3. Excellent verbal and written communication skills
4. 4+ years experience creating labor & material budgets, cost and schedule reporting, earned value status and variance reporting, and estimates to and at completion
5. 4+ years experience managing bids and proposals
6. Must be a US Citizen

Contact Andrea L. Mosley at amosley@kamcon.com with your resume.

Aftermarket Program Manager

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare key business analysis of sales, gross profits, and selling, administrative & engineering (SAE) expenses to assist functional leaders in decision-making processes. Investigate trends and variances compared to prior periods and forecasts.
• Publish monthly management reporting package.
• Lead the month-end balance sheet account reconciliation process.
• Point person for corporate reporting requests and Hyperion reporting within the Region.
• Assist in the preparation of the annual plan and quarterly forecasts. Work closely with the Finance Leader and Controller to drive forecast ownership, accountability and reporting into the organization.
• Work closely with the sales department to ensure that all commissions and customer incentive programs are properly accrued for.
• Help maintain a strong internal control structure throughout the organization.
• Ad hoc financial analysis and special projects to support continued growth of the business
• Learn and apply lean manufacturing methodologies to support continuous improvement

Required Capabilities:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business with specialization in Accounting or Finance and CPA certification strongly preferred or in the process of obtaining.
• Minimum 3 to 5 years of manufacturing/service business analysis and/or finance is required.
• Specific experience in budget and financial forecast preparation plus review/analysis of variance from same, preparation of product cost estimates and related price quotations/recommendations, preparation of summary schedules and related commentary for these areas is preferred.
• Knowledge of finance and business measurements: expense performance, rate of return, depreciation, working capital, investment, etc.
• Ability to prepare forecasts and analyze trends in manufacturing, sales, finance, and general business conditions.
• Strong skills in account analysis, problem solving, attention to detail, and writing of commentary and analytical summaries.
• Strong project management skills to champion projects.
• Knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles.
• Excellent organization skills, with the ability to rapidly and accurately analyze a situation to arrive at an effective decision.
• Proficiency using electronic spreadsheet, database, word processing and graphical presentation software, preferably Microsoft Office applications is required.
• Hyperion knowledge is preferred.

Send your resume to Andrea L. Mosley at amosley@kamcon.com.

Jr. Financial Analyst

Key Responsibilities:

• Based in in Minnesota; also responsible for HR support for employees in CA, IN, WI and NC.
• Assists hiring managers with recruiting efforts; produces offers of employment; conducts psychometric and abilities testing, background investigations and ensures drug testing.
• Ensures that equality of opportunity is available to all existing and prospective employees.
• Conducts new hire orientations and facilitates the company’s induction program.
• Updates and maintains HR records/employee files in compliance with company policy and employment law; employs HR document storage system and ensures the system content is regularly updated.
• Assists managers with employee issues to ensure compliance with state and federal laws and company policies; facilitates disciplinary meetings, exit interviews, and other employee relations meetings.
• Produces employment related correspondence including disciplinary notices, performance improvement plans, and termination letters.
• Produces spreadsheets, statistics, organization charts, articles for the global employee newsletter, and other HR related documents in a timely manner.
• Provides assistance to Global HR Leader and US HR team with arranging meetings, seminars etc.
• Issues global employee communications and posts these on notice boards at location.
• Promotes and supports the company’s continuous improvement program at all levels in the business; is expected to make recommendations for improvements and changes that help the business.
• Assists with the integration of new acquired subsidiaries.

Human Resources Generalist