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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]