Accountancy

Clients ask us all the time “how’s the market?” and right now it’s harder than ever to give a succinct summary. The closest I can describe the market would be that it has [...]

Wow… that was a busy January! So is it time to slice the top off a couple of champagne bottles with a sharpened sword – errrm probably not.  But are there signs of life in the market – [...]

Wow. Nearly there. 30 sleeps until Christmas. So, what have been the themes of 2025 for the clients we work with and what’s their current outlook for the year ahead? Well, it’s been tough in the [...]

There’s loads of candidates on the market, right? It’s a client’s market, yeah?  So why are we finding it so hard to recruit this role? This is a common conversation of the last 8 – 12 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]