Careers advice
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The importance of building a personal brand
20/04/2022
Building a personal brand is essential for your accounting career. This blog dives into the subject of personal branding and why you need one. -
How to reduce and manage stress at work
28/03/2022
Stress plays a daily part in all of our working lives. Our latest blog gives you some tips and methods for how you can reduce and manage stress at work. -
How to get promoted at work
28/03/2022
Getting that promotion at work, when you’re doing great work is crucial to your career growth. Our latest blog looks at how to get promoted at work. -
The COVID-19 outbreak turned our health, personal and professional lives upside down. But now – as all sectors start to look towards the future – the outlook is encouraging, with accountancy and finance employers feeling positive about the wider economic climate and the opportunities it could bring.
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The news that Google employees in the US who choose to work from home permanently may get a pay cut has understandably generated a lot of interest and comment. Pre-pandemic only a small minority of full-time employees with office jobs worked primarily from home.
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As you juggle your workload, perhaps with the added stress of having to create a hybrid working pattern by working from both home and the office, do you find yourself wishing: “If only I had two more hours each day”?
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Two in five chartered accountants have admitted to feeling too emotionally drained to work, according to the result of new research timed to coincide with National Stress Awareness Day.
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What’s it like to… be a forensic accountant
10/10/2021
Laura Dymott started out in audit before discovering the fascinating world of forensics. The variety of clients and cases means no two days are ever the same – and she’s certainly never bored. -
If you’re currently preparing for a remote job interview, you may be feeling concerned that it could be more difficult for you to assess whether the opportunity is the right one for you.
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The world is changing, and so is finance. In just 10 years, the sector will be unrecognisable from what it is today. Digital transformation, automation and a big data boom will see finance professionals embrace AI as standard practice.
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Why work in public sector finance?
13/09/2021
Any organisation run by the government and funded by tax-payers’ money can be classified as public sector. -
5 useful tips to make your CV stand out
10/09/2021
A good CV is vital when applying for a job, especially in recent years with the job sector becoming more competitive than ever. -
Ways mentoring can benefit your career
09/09/2021
Today mentoring relationships are becoming more common amongst professional accountants. Many of them are looking for a mentor to help them develop their professional skills and achieve their career goals. -
That’s it. They’ve had enough. Enough of the endless Teams calls. Enough of putting their career development on hold. Enough of feeling unsupported, overloaded, and overlooked by their employers.
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From chartered accountant in restructuring, turned business lender, to the CFO of ClearScore - Guy Buckley-Sharp exclusively unpicks his unconventional career path to lead the finance team at a household business.
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ClearScore CFO, Guy Buckley-Sharp, shares expertise learned from his pathway to financial controller of a household business exclusively with ICAEW Insights Q&A.
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A comprehensive career plan ensures that you are in control of your career and are making calculated decisions.
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The role of the Non-Executive Director (NED) can be both challenging and rewarding, but it is important to know what you are getting into.
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The many strategic roles of the CFO
13/06/2021
ICAEW’s Business and Management Faculty recently published new research into the many strategic roles of the CFO. -
Tips on how to resign professionally
11/06/2021
There is plenty of advice for how to land a good job, but what about how to resign professionally?