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Salaries for ICAEW Chartered Accountants remain static

Salaries for chartered accountants have remained static in the last year, according to the latest salary survey released by ICAEW and recruitment firm Stott and May.
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Retaining Good People

This week’s article is more a topic for conversation than specific advice, but a topic that everyone will have an opinion on. Hopefully it will be interesting to all those who are currently managing teams or aspire to do so.

We should also say that...

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Stick or Twist? Why not moving may be the best career decision you’ll ever make.

For recruitment consultancies and specialists, the newly-qualified ACA market is one of the most important and lucrative sectors. 

For employers of all natures, whether in the commercial, financial services or third sectors, the calibre and consis...

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Explanations of the recruitment process: Salary Negotiations

We regularly get asked questions by our candidates that ask us to explain areas of the recruitment process. For example, ‘who decides what salary I will be offered?’ and ‘how is that decision made?’. There are many of these questions so we thought w...

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Selling Yourself – An Underrated Skill

It doesn't matter who you are, an internal auditor, teacher or surgeon; you will have to go through an interview process at some stage. We have spoken about the details of interviews previously, however we think it would be helpful to emphasise just...

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CV / Career Management

The goal of this article is to provide some helpful information and advice on how the decisions you make can affect your CV and how they can be perceived by others.

This is a difficult topic as there is little that any of us can do to retrospective...

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It's your career - get the job you really want without leaving the old one

I was a recruiter for a very long time, actually longer than I would like to mention (okay 16 years) and in that time, and ever since, I am asked by people to help them in their careers.

I’m asked to look at CVs, help with interview preparation, gi...

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Compare your salary with your peers...Win an iPad Mini!

 In 2012, you told us that the average basic salary of an ACA was £92.1k. What is it now? Let us know by taking part in this year's survey. ...
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Top 10 Interview Tips

One of the great frustrations of my job is watching candidates fail an interview process for a role I know is ideal for both sides. So I thought it might be useful if I highlighted the main reasons I have seen interviews go wrong.

I should say tha...

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CV Writing

This is an endlessly discussed topic and please note that we fully appreciate that there are an infinite number of views on how best to construct a professional CV. We do not suggest that we have the definitive answer to this; however we would hope ...