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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]