Indianapolis CFOs Report on Fourth-Quarter Hiring Outlook Survey Measures Employment Optimism Among Local Finance Executives

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ — Six percent of chief financial officers (CFOs) in the Indianapolis area expect to add accounting and finance staff during the fourth quarter and 9 percent anticipate reductions in personnel, according to the most recent Robert Half International Financial Hiring Index.   The majority of respondents, 83 percent, anticipate no change in hiring.

The local results reflect a two-quarter rolling average based on interviews with 200 CFOs from a stratified random sample of companies in the Indianapolis area with 20 or more employees; 1,400 CFOs were queried for the national data. (To view the national results, visit www.roberthalf.com/PressRoom.) The studies were conducted by an independent research firm and developed by Robert Half International, the world’s first and largest staffing services firm specializing in accounting and finance. Robert Half has been tracking financial hiring activity in the United States since 1992.

“Organizations appear to be exercising caution before adding full-time staff until there are signs of a sustained recovery,” said Max Messmer, chairman and CEO of Robert Half International. “At the same time, companies recognize that carefully chosen accounting and finance professionals are critical to their efforts to manage what remains of the recession and also to take advantage of growth opportunities once conditions improve.”

Robert Half International was founded in 1948 and is traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Its financial staffing divisions include Accountemps, Robert Half Finance & Accounting and Robert Half Management Resources, for temporary, full-time and senior-level project professionals, respectively. The company has more than 360 staffing locations worldwide and offers online job search services on its divisional websites, all of which can be accessed at www.rhi.com.

SOURCE Robert Half International