Marcum & Kliegman, the Melville-based accounting firm, is expanding into the executive-search business.
It seemed like a natural for an accounting firm because of the current shortage of accountants. But a spokesman said the shortage wasn’t the primary reason for the new division. Instead, the accounting firm is hoping to find high-level employees for companies in a variety of industries, said its director of human resources, Richard Paris, who has been named president of M&K Executive Search.
“It is our goal to find the people who possess the precise skill set and qualifications that a client is looking for,” he said.
The executive-search division isn’t Marcum’s first foray into a non-accounting business. The firm also has an Internet-security division that helps companies to protect sensitive data.