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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 [...]

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 [...]