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Wow OK, so that was a lot in a short space of time… UK General Election, UK Budget revealed… whatever you think of the Starmer drama and RR’s infamous budget – that in no unnecessary terms [...]

If a Manager asks a recruiter how they are feeling about the market in week 1 of September then 9 times out of 10 you’ll get a “let’s not get carried away but I’m cautiously optimistic”. So guess [...]

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 [...]

All recruiters have the same candidates, right? So how much does it really matter who you use??? Some of our placement data from the last 2 years (*Jan 2022 onwards) kicks up some really [...]

What’s going on in the job and candidate market as we approach Q4???   This has been a funny old year for a lot of businesses in the UK – generally speaking, there still seems to be cautious [...]

For the past 12 months most recruiters have been predicting some degree of slow down… And through 2022 it just never came… Demand for Qualified accountancy and finance remained consistently [...]

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, [...]

What does H1 look like? Gut feeling – your recruitment is likely to be marginally easier that it was in 2021… but very marginally…… …and with a thousand caveats!! The recent REC and KPMG reports [...]

People around me know I’m a big fan of Christmas, my jumpers come out in November, Radio X has already been swapped for Heart Xmas Classics and I’ll be watching Elf and Home Alone this week with [...]