{"id":1394,"date":"2014-05-13T08:09:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T13:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanfordrose.wpengine.com\/portlandmaine\/simply-driven-executive-searchs-kent-burns-featured-in-big4-com-article\/"},"modified":"2014-05-13T08:09:38","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T13:09:38","slug":"simply-driven-executive-searchs-kent-burns-featured-in-big4-com-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanfordrose.com\/shapirosearch\/simply-driven-executive-searchs-kent-burns-featured-in-big4-com-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Simply Driven Executive Search’s Kent Burns Featured in Big4.com Article"},"content":{"rendered":"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n

Kent Burns, President of Simply Driven Executive Search \u2013 A member of the Sanford Rose Associates\u00ae network of offices, Featured in Big4.com Article: “Safety and Security As The Keywords For Career Advancement In The Modern Age”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dallas. TX | 5\/13\/2014<\/p>\n

By Rob Starr, Big4.com Content Manager<\/p>\n

Kent Burns <\/a>has a number of different notches on his belt that qualify him to speak on the subject of career advancement in the Big4. He\u2019s an author of two books, been featured in a variety of noteworthy publications from Forbes to The Boston Globe, has worked for PwC and KPMG in their tax disciplines and is of course a CPA.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first thing I would say it\u2019s important for people to understand is how the landscape has changed,\u201d says the President of Simply Driven Executive Search, a member of the Sanford Rose Associates\u00ae<\/a> network of offices, adding the path to becoming a partner back in the 1980s when he broke into public accounting necessitated the need to become a technician.<\/p>\n

As the business evolved into the late 1990s, the focus shifted to salesman.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a tremendous focus put on business development,\u201d Burns says. \u201cThe firms restructured the way that partners were compensated. The technical guys got shoved over to the side because it was the folks that could sell that became the rising stars in the firm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the full article.<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Source: http:\/\/www.big4.com\/big4-thought-leader-interviews\/safety-security-keywords-career-advancement-modern-age\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Kent Burns, President of Simply Driven Executive Search \u2013 A member of the Sanford Rose Associates\u00ae network of offices, Featured in Big4.com Article: “Safety and Security As The Keywords For Career Advancement In The Modern Age” Dallas. TX | 5\/13\/2014 By Rob Starr, Big4.com Content Manager Kent Burns has a number of different notches on his belt that qualify him to speak on the subject of career advancement in the Big4. He\u2019s an author of two books, been featured in a variety of noteworthy publications from Forbes to The Boston Globe, has worked for PwC and KPMG in their tax disciplines and is of course a CPA. \u201cThe first thing I would say it\u2019s important for people to understand is how the landscape has changed,\u201d says the President of Simply Driven Executive Search, a member of the Sanford Rose Associates\u00ae network of offices, adding the path to becoming a partner back in the 1980s when he broke into public accounting necessitated the need to become a technician. As the business evolved into the late 1990s, the focus shifted to salesman. \u201cThere was a tremendous focus put on business development,\u201d Burns says. \u201cThe firms restructured the way that partners were compensated. The technical guys got shoved over to the side because it was the folks that could sell that became the rising stars in the firm.\u201d Read the full article.   Source: http:\/\/www.big4.com\/big4-thought-leader-interviews\/safety-security-keywords-career-advancement-modern-age\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[204,86,202,205,206],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sra-news","tag-kent-burns","tag-sanford-rose-associates","tag-sanford-rose-associates-simply-driven-search","tag-sanford-rose-associates-in-the-news","tag-simply-driven-executive-search"],"yoast_head":"\nSimply Driven Executive Search's Kent Burns Featured in Big4.com Article<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sanford Rose Associates, Kent Burns Featured in Big4.com Article: "Safety and Security As The Keywords For Career Advancement In ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sanfordrose.com\/shapirosearch\/simply-driven-executive-searchs-kent-burns-featured-in-big4-com-article\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Darren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sanfordrose.com\\\/shapirosearch\\\/simply-driven-executive-searchs-kent-burns-featured-in-big4-com-article\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sanfordrose.com\\\/shapirosearch\\\/simply-driven-executive-searchs-kent-burns-featured-in-big4-com-article\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Darren\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sanfordrose.com\\\/shapirosearch\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3a19b159d1fd2376d2dab6bea24e5a7d\"},\"headline\":\"Simply Driven Executive Search’s Kent Burns Featured in Big4.com Article\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-05-13T13:09:38+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sanfordrose.com\\\/shapirosearch\\\/simply-driven-executive-searchs-kent-burns-featured-in-big4-com-article\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":253,\"commentCount\":0,\"keywords\":[\"Kent Burns\",\"Sanford Rose Associates\",\"Sanford Rose Associates - 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