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Accounting & Finance Job Market Update: October 2017
The last three months can be summed up with one word - change! Change has dominated politics - both in New Zealand and abroad (Trump, Brexit, etc). Change has hit our much-talked-about property market, and change has begun to hit the accounting and finance sector. The accounting...
Accounting & Finance Job Market Update: July 2017
We get asked many times a day what Auckland’s accounting and finance job market is doing. There’s a lot going on out there, but the answer is definitely not straightforward. Let’s try and make sense of a few things for you: At Consult, we’ve seen the job...
What The Buck: Again?!
Every hiring manager we meet right now is desperate to know what’s happening in the accounting and finance market. What roles are in hot demand, what are other organisations doing to retain their key staff and how can they ensure the best people are working for...
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,...
Consult Mythbusters: Setting The Record Straight
It’s come to our attention that there are a few urban myths about Consult that have been doing the rounds recently. We’re kind of proud to be the owner of a few urban myths (because it means that we’ve sufficiently scared our competition into having to...
When Losing Great People Is A Good Thing
It’s a bittersweet thing. You’ve worked with somebody for years. You’ve seen their wee babies grow up and become big school kids. You’ve been there when they are going through tough life stuff. They are great at their job and completely understand your company. They’ve been there...
The Brilliant Career Choice You’ve Never Considered
If I had a dollar for every person I met who dreamed of being a recruitment consultant when they were a kid… I’d have zero dollars. People don’t plan to get into recruitment. There’s no university degree to prepare you for the job. The careers lady at...
Such A Great Business, I Bought It! Here’s Why.
Well, I didn’t buy the whole business. But I did invest a significant amount of money for a significant shareholding, and a place on the Board. I thought long and hard about publishing this blog. This is personal financial information after all. Not really something to ‘share’. And...