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How to prepare for a job interview
22 March 2022
Many things have changed in the last few years, but some basic principles and some top tips will help you when it comes to preparing for a job interview – whether virtually or in person.
There has been a paradigm shift in the way that interviews take place in the tax market following the pandemic in 2020. Whereas once we met in offices, shook hands on arrival and sat across from each other in a meeting room, now virtually all interaction is online. So how can you prepare for an online interview? And what happens if they ask you to come into the office for a second round?
Read the full article HERE with Tax Adviser
22 February 2022
I was very unsettled last week when one of my clients (a partner at a Top 20 firm) mentioned in passing that their firm were cutting the number of hires at graduate and school leaver level as a direct result of AI. The firm had come to the opinion that AI would soon be taking over the traditional tax work that would be given to trainees.
Welcome to our second northern branches international women’s day lunch.
Has Covid interrupted your plan to work overseas? Are you
looking for a chance to travel and work abroad? Our client
is looking for chartered accountants with a UK or Australian
tax background and you can be based in either Melbourne
or Sydney!
I think it is a timely reminder of why we still need events like International Women’s Day. Within my lifetime (I’m in my 40’s) there has been active and legal discrimination of women, it took till 1975 for women to be allowed bank accounts in their own name.
There is a Roald Dahl-esque phrase going around - ‘The Great Resignation’.
Georgiana Head takes a look at some other ways you can use your skills and volunteer in the community.
Tax and IT guru and former ICAEW Chair Paul Aplin’s report on the ‘The Tax Technology Horizon’ for Tolley’s makes fascinating reading. He looks at the myriad mays in which new technologies are changing the face of taxation and the tax profession.
I was looking back at some old blogs from January 2020 – pre Covid-19, pre home working – where on 5th of January 2020 I was discussing how ready I was to go back to work.
I saw a post on social media this week that really caught my imagination it read:
‘’You’re a burglar…
Coronavirus has taken its toll across the UK economy, and it is no secret that it has taken an impact on available jobs, including jobs within the tax profession.
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