What a funny old H1 it’s been. The accountancy and finance job market / candidate market and general recruitment landscape over the past 5 years has been weird! Very changeable, red hot then [...]
We discuss a version of this question tons from 3rd Jan to pretty much 31st Jan every year with LOADS of different types of people. Often Xmas is a time to decompress and get some needed [...]
Wow OK, so that was a lot in a short space of time… UK General Election, UK Budget revealed… whatever you think of the Starmer drama and RR’s infamous budget – that in no unnecessary terms [...]
Will H2 2023 be similar to H1 2009? – no vacancies, loads of redundancies, lots of chaos….. and ultimately a shift from away from being a ‘candidate’s market’??? The cost [...]
For the past 12 months most recruiters have been predicting some degree of slow down… And through 2022 it just never came… Demand for Qualified accountancy and finance remained consistently [...]
If a Manager asks a recruiter how they are feeling about the market in week 1 of September then 9 times out of 10 you’ll get a “let’s not get carried away but I’m cautiously optimistic”. So guess [...]
One day a Management Accountant went into a meeting with the FD. They were bored of the same old accruals and prepayments and month end reporting. They were sick to the teeth of [...]
Good! Back to normal… ish …. But normal is good! As with every Dec / Jan we have had lots of calls and emails from people weighing up their career options. Qualified finance professionals [...]
All recruiters have the same candidates, right? So how much does it really matter who you use??? Some of our placement data from the last 2 years (*Jan 2022 onwards) kicks up some really [...]
What’s going on in the job and candidate market as we approach Q4??? This has been a funny old year for a lot of businesses in the UK – generally speaking, there still seems to be cautious [...]
What’s that coming over the hill – is it a Monster….? Crystal ball in hand and tarot cards splayed out I really don’t see anyone being flooded with CVs anytime soon… I get asked a few times a day [...]
It’s March 2020 – science fiction is slowly becoming fact as a virus starts to cause utter pandemonium… schools are being closed, offices forced to shut and home working models thrashed out, [...]
What does H1 look like? Gut feeling – your recruitment is likely to be marginally easier that it was in 2021… but very marginally…… …and with a thousand caveats!! The recent REC and KPMG reports [...]
People around me know I’m a big fan of Christmas, my jumpers come out in November, Radio X has already been swapped for Heart Xmas Classics and I’ll be watching Elf and Home Alone this week with [...]
At ARG we have just completed H1 of Year 5… and it’s been a 6 months like no other. The requirement in mid market has been unprecedented and vacancy numbers were higher than ever before, we [...]
People are still in a cautious mode is the obvious answer It’s been a rollercoastery couple of years and so many people are hunkering down & taking a better the devil you know approach. If [...]
Unbelievably we will soon be in month 5 of 2021! Hard to comprehend that it is more than 12 months has passed since the pandemic hit the UK! The accountancy and finance recruitment [...]
It remains a seller’s market in the property sector currently. Broadly speaking it’s a candidate’s market in our recruitment specialism. Demand for candidates is really high. The job market is [...]
This year has felt like unpredictable dystopia at times before swinging to almost ‘business as usual’ normality at others – it seems the quirky and unsettling rollercoaster ride [...]
Making a case for more dollar can be challenging at the best of times, amid a recession it is likely to feel about as comfortable as your pre-lockdown skinny jeans… Here are some basic pointers [...]
In January we wrote an overview of the job market in finance – and it was pretty bullish!! The qualified market had been consistently busy through 2019 and Q1 started in exactly the same [...]
Wow – to say that was a pretty crazy few months is putting understatement on the rack and stretching it to within an inch of its poor screaming life! Fair to say that personally it was the [...]
There are a range of key factors and important considerations outlined below which may be of interest if you are considering recruitment within your finance function through 2020. It has been an [...]
What’s happening in the UK’s Accountancy & Finance Job Market currently? It’s tight at the top… The market seems to be heading for a perfect (or imperfect depending on your side of the [...]
This is my summary of career progression trapdoors for accounting and finance professionals to avoid… The journey to FD, in particular, for any finance professional can be challenging [...]
If you are an Accountancy and Finance professional pulling together a CV or preparing for interviews our biggest advice is focus on CHANGE. Have you significantly contributed to… – [...]
Are you finding it difficult to hire a Part Qualified / Newly Qualified Accountant? Firstly, you are not alone! The market has been consistently busy for 2 – 3 years at this level and [...]
It’s our Birthday! 2 years ago today The Accountancy Recruitment Group was born. Our vision was simple – to be a business recognised for expertise in our market that both [...]
Finance and Accountancy Job Market Summary 2019 (Q1) The buoyant accountancy and finance UK job market has continued to remain strong through the final quarter of 2018 and into H1 2019. [...]
Preparing to interview for a ‘Number 1 in finance’ position within an SME. Meeting the owners of the business is crunch time when it comes to trying to secure the primary finance role (FC / Head [...]
The Dead Rubber Interview It is a phrase you may have heard recently to describe sporting matches – is basically describes a match within a series of matches that has no impact on the [...]
Handing in your Notice. Most people at some stage of their career have sat on the commute to or from work and day-dreamed of handing in their notice with glee and telling their superiors in no [...]
“We want to hire an Accountant who is fiercely ambitious, driven and proactive who will come and deliver rapid value…. but there is no naturally clear ‘next step’ in our business for [...]
Don’t have a crab mentality if you want to become a Finance Director. Last week I met the MD of a business seeking a new Financial Controller. She wants to hire an FC now and make them FD [...]
“I have an accountant – we have used them for years, their office is only a few miles away’ – in this article we briefly explore why it may be prudent to invest in a [...]
We are absolutely delighted and hugely proud to have been short-listed as the “Derbyshire Times Small Business of the Year 2017”. We would like to take the time to relay a huge and [...]
A couple of years ago I had crossed words with a consultant working within a business I previously worked with. We came out of a meeting with a £30m turnover engineering group having [...]
We’ve all heard (and often experienced) the weird and wonderful interview questions that seem to crop up from time to time – my personal favourite probably being ‘if you were a sea creature what [...]
If you are restricting your sights to applicants working in your current sector you are shielding your business from a vast network of brilliant candidates with the versatility, common sense, [...]
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