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Who are the happiest FDs and how do you optimise your chances of joining that elusive group?! I’ve met / interviewed over 3000 FDs in my career so far. Thousands of impressively capable [...]

We’re very proud to be shortlisted finalists for the Excellence in Customer Service category in the Chesterfield Business Awards sponsored by SMH Group. As a boutique search firm, outstanding [...]

Every day I speak to C-suite execs, business owners, investors, FDs, FCs and qualified accountants. All day. Every day. For the past 20 years. And over time, particularly if you’re a proper nerd [...]

Do you need to pay your FD £100k or £200k? (and what on earth does the LTIP need to look and sound like?) You’re an SME in the £5m – £100m bracket. You know you need a qualified finance [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]