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The Hardest Part Of Landing Your Next Accounting Job
As a highly skilled and experienced accountant, you would expect that the process of landing your next accounting job would be pretty straightforward. Of course the reality is very different. I’ve seen people at all levels struggle with landing their next job. When I was building my career in accounting and finance, I too had struggles at different […]
Continue readingWhy You Might Be Your Biggest Barrier To Landing Your Next Job
At any time looking for and landing your next job is tough. Add in the uncertainty around COVID-19 and it adds another challenge. Employers, just like all of us don’t know what’s around the corner. They will be cautious in their approach. I’ve seen examples of interviews being cancelled at short notice. It can be frustrating. Equally organisations are dealing with […]
Continue readingIs It A Good Idea To Pursue Accounting Job Opportunities On A Lower Salary?
I was reading an article on LinkedIn that shared some statistics about people’s perceptions around taking a pay cut to get their next job. It got me thinking about accountants and other functional professionals that I work with. Now it’s fair to say that each individual has their own set of circumstances. We all have bills to pay […]
Continue reading7 Things You Can Do To Get Yourself Ahead of The Game When Restarting Your Job Search
We are in a period of uncertainty as a result of COVID-19. Right now it’s difficult to predict when we will return to some sort of normality. Equally no one is clear what that new normality will look like. There has a been a lot of support to businesses from government. Necessary and welcomed. Of course there’s always […]
Continue readingDon’t Rely On A One Channel Approach To Job Search
Searching for a new job is never easy at the best of times. In the current COVID-19 situation the challenge has in my view got even bigger. I was presenting on a webinar for accountants fairly recently. At the start of the webinar I ran a poll. It was a straight forward yes or no poll. The question was whether […]
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