Career
The Forgotten Secret Sauce For Powerful Careers
Networking can be your biggest asset. Don't neglect it. Keeping at the leading edge of our industries to remain relevant and valuable is one of the defining career challenges of our times. Often, it’s about keeping up with technology. But that’s not enough. Underpinning all successful...
4 Ways Social Media Is Good For Your Accounting Career
Social media is bigger than ever. While some of you might think it’s still trivial, the fact remains, perhaps now more than ever, that it is a part of the ever-changing fabric of life for most of us, including the businesses we work for (or want...
A Powerful Career Tip That Will Grow On You
I’ve just made a major career blunder. Luckily, I caught myself just in time. Don’t make the same mistake, take learning from this lesson without going through it yourself.I quit my big corporate job a while back and I had a clear plan on what I...
4 Easy Ways To Recharge Your Career Batteries This Holiday Season
Our lives are busier than ever. We’re always online, available to everyone at all times, and our to-do lists seem to be never-ending. As your well-deserved holiday approaches, you might be feeling exhausted, unproductive, and lacking the mental wherewithal to lift your head above the detail. The...
Don’t Let Your Finances Become Tangled This Christmas
All I want for Christmas is you money Christmas is an artificial hard close deadline for many businesses.Everyone seems to want updated budgets, accounts, returns, forecasts before Christmas. We spend our days working hard to maximise the financial potential of organisations but often when we come home at the end of a hard day,...
4 Interview Mistakes That Will Stop You From Hiring Top Talent
The market has changed and the pendulum has swung. We find ourselves in an environment where there are simply not enough great finance and accounting people for all the companies that are hiring. This means that the greatest talent in the market has choices when looking for...
Awkward Handshakes That Spell Interview Failure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghG1fG6Oc08 Video by Consult Recruitment We’ve all been there. You meet a perfectly nice person for the first time, you go to shake their hand and you shudder because you realise that the handshake can be compared to shaking a wet fish or a clicky-wristed mannequin. I mean who...
Why You Don’t Achieve Your Goals – And What To Do About It
There are two forces at play if you want to achieve your goals, and they have to be working in partnership. This is powerful, simple and a total game changer. Look in the mirror and you will not only see your best friend but also your...