Navigating Conscientiousness in Accounting Careers

Redefine how you hire and develop top accounting talent.

The Disruptors

With Liz Farr

In 2012, Steve Evans’ friend Giles Pearson, a Big Four accountant in New Zealand, needed help. PwC kept making the same hiring mistakes because they had no way to assess a candidate’s technical accounting skills. Steve, an expert in psychometric testing, thought it might take half a day to scour the marketplace for appropriate tests but found nothing useful.   

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“They're all rubbish,” he recalls telling Giles. “They're out of date. They're not country-specific. They're not really accounting-specific. They're just math questions dressed up as an accounting test.” 

Out of that failure, Accountests was born.