News, tips and insights from your recruitment specialists…
News, tips and insights from your recruitment specialists…
What are the most important accounting qualifications?
Navigating the world of accounting qualifications can feel pretty daunting and confusing. There are different institutions [...]
Key Hiring Tips and Market Insights – Transactional & Part-qualified Finance
I wanted to share a few brief insights from the transactional and part-qualified finance market [...]
How to Prepare for Working with a Recruitment Agency on a Live Role
Job market conditions are shifting and with that so are candidate expectations, it’s more vital [...]
How to Identify a True Recruitment Finance Specialist to Partner With — Insights from Howett Thorpe
When it comes to hiring finance or business support professionals, the recruitment partner you choose [...]
Building A Healthier Finance Community For Mental Health Awareness Week
Lots of publicity surrounded Mental Health Awareness week in May to raise awareness and promotes [...]
2025 Salary Benchmarking in an evolving job market.
2024 saw some challenging times for businesses with the strain being felt with the budget [...]
Considering Abolishing Hybrid Working? Think Again.
Considering Abolishing Hybrid Working? Think Again. As conversations around the future of work continue to evolve, [...]
The Benefits of Using a Recruiter for Temporary or Interim Roles
In today’s fast-paced and ever-evolving landscape, businesses must continually look for innovative ways to stay agile, [...]
6 Tips on How to Improve Your Employability
Finance and accounting jobs in SMEs, corporates and multinational companies often see high numbers of [...]
Interview with Lillie | Business Support Recruitment
Lillie, an experienced Recruitment Specialist with deep insights into business support roles and the ever-evolving recruitment [...]
Attracting Top Talent in the Age of AI
Attracting Top Talent in the Age of AI In today's competitive job market, attracting and retaining [...]
How to recover from a bad hire
How to Recover from a Bad Hire | An Employers Guide The government recently published the [...]
How to manage counter offers
The Perils of Counter Offers | An employers guide to counter offers While counter offers can [...]
A challenge of the post pandemic working environment for SME’s & Employees & how to find a happy medium.
The shift of post pandemic working environment. The pandemic world irrevocably shifted the landscape of [...]
The best recruitment techniques to attract top accounting talent for your vacancy
Filling a vacancy should be simple. Your business needs specific skills, and someone with those skills [...]
Business Support: Recruiting the Backbone of Your Workforce
In 2024, the world of business is relentless. Competition continues to heat up every year, and [...]
7 Ways to Increase Employee Engagement
When we think of the biggest challenges in today’s employment market, lots of things come to [...]
How Not To Regret A Hire
When an interview has gone well and a candidate seems like a great match for your [...]
How a job description and person specification paves the way to the right appointment
As documents go, job descriptions and person specifications are vital. They’re at the heart of each [...]
Can accounting software really replace finance personnel?
With rapid advances of AI technology in recent years, there are few industries that haven’t felt [...]
Higher Salaries vs Better Workplace Benefits
It can be worrying to see that most salaries have not changed to account for [...]
Reaping the Workplace Benefits of Salary Sacrifice Schemes
Due to the ongoing talent shortage, the current employment market is fiercely candidate driven — and [...]
What the Four-Day Workweek Could Mean for Employers
Hybrid and remote working models have helped answer calls for increased flexibility since the pandemic. But [...]
Internal vs External Recruitment: to Promote or Hire?
The first few months of the year present a prime opportunity to look for a new [...]
Beyond Qualifications: a Holistic Recruitment Strategy
Recruitment has become increasingly complex over the last few years. Changing attitudes towards work-life balance and [...]
What Will 2023 Look Like for Recruitment and Retention?
It has been yet another eventful year for recruitment, with companies from every sector fighting to [...]
How Are Business Support Roles Changing?
In the modern, digital world, many office jobs look slightly different from how they used to. [...]
What Can Employers Do to Address the Cost-of-Living Crisis?
Businesses have faced an unprecedented string of challenges in recent years. From Brexit and COVID-19 to [...]
Planning Ahead: Recruiting in a Stagnant Market
Much has improved since the pandemic struck and changed the face of the corporate world. Businesses [...]
What Does Your Business Branding Say About You?
Any company that cares about recruiting and retaining top talent should constantly evaluate its hiring strategy. [...]
Are You Getting the Most Out of Your Current Role?
The pandemic has changed the job market — perhaps for good. As many companies begin [...]
Why Now Is a Great Time for a Career Move
The job market has changed. In 2022, the ball is in the candidate’s court, making [...]
Keeping Things Personal: Automation in Recruitment
In the wake of the pandemic, which accelerated the pace of digitisation worldwide at an unprecedented [...]
Two Years of Pandemic Recruitment: How Has the Industry Changed?
The pandemic has changed the world of recruitment — perhaps forever. The needs, preferences and expectations [...]
Client vs Candidate-Driven Recruitment Strategies
If the past two years have proved anything, it is how rapidly the job market can [...]
Out with the Old: How the Interview Process is Changing
The recruitment landscape has drastically changed over the past couple of years. And in the post-pandemic [...]
Promotion Announcement: Toby Salmon, Senior Recruitment Consultant
We are delighted to announce Toby Salmon’s promotion to Senior Recruitment Consultant. Toby is a great [...]
Revisiting ‘Passive’ Candidate Recruitment Strategies
Earlier this year, we wrote about how the shift from a client-driven market to a candidate-driven [...]
Secure the Top Talent: 7 Tips for Mastering the Job Offer
Job vacancies are at a record high in the UK, and competition is fierce for the [...]
Securing Talent During a Record High for UK Job Vacancies
Considering the millions of furloughed workers during the height of the pandemic, global markets seem to [...]
What Does Your Recruitment Process Say About You?
With the easing of lockdown kickstarting the economy and more employers seeking new staff, candidates have [...]
Upskilling: How Can Staff Training Boost Retention?
With a record shortage of top talent and the shift to a candidate-driven market, staff retention [...]
Recruitment in 2021: Has the Outlook Changed?
After the past 18 months of economic uncertainty, it seems an odd time for unemployment rates [...]
Flexible Working: Back to the Office or Stay at Home?
The concept of remote working is nothing new, but it took a global pandemic for companies [...]
Generalised vs Specialised Recruitment: Which is Best?
Many companies use recruitment agencies to source new talent from a wider network and streamline the [...]
First-Time Recruitment: How to Maximise Staff Retention
Staff retention remains a key concern for many businesses. High turnover levels can cause significant issues [...]
How to Secure the ‘Passive’ Candidate
Thanks to the sudden shift from a client-driven market to a candidate-driven market, recruiters and employers [...]
Adapting from a Client-Driven Market to a Candidate-Driven Market
It has been a difficult few months for recruiters all over the UK as they continue [...]
The Hybrid Approach: A New Way of Working
The past year has completely changed the way we all live and work. Thanks to the [...]
Phase Three: Successful Lockdown Recruitment
With three national lockdowns, various restrictions, and many forced to work from home for the majority [...]
Phase Two of the Recruitment Process: Onboarding Remotely
A good recruitment process is key to securing the best finance and accountancy talent, as well [...]
Phase One: Breaking Down the Recruitment Process
It is fair to say the past year has shaken the recruitment industry to its core. [...]
6 Financial Recruitment Trends to Look Out for in 2021
Staying up to date with the latest financial recruitment trends and leveraging new technologies is crucial [...]
Getting Through These Challenging Times
I would like to start by saying that myself and the team here at Howett Thorpe [...]
Temporary Recruitment in the Finance Sector
Interim and temporary workers make up approximately one-fifth of the UK workforce and are a fundamental [...]
Salary Survey 2020/2021
Every year, Howett Thorpe undertakes an in-depth analysis of the salary trends within commerce and industry [...]
Meet the Team: Weybridge
For almost 30 years now, Howett Thorpe has been servicing the accountancy and finance recruitment [...]
Why Work for Us?
Why is finance recruitment such an exciting industry? As a recruiter you can directly change [...]
FinTech: The Rise in Automated Systems and How They Impact Your Role
FinTech is an amalgamation of financial and technology and is a term for any kind of [...]
The Gender Pay Gap
It has been reported that almost eight in ten organisations now pay men more than women; [...]
Howett Thorpe – 30 Years of Success and Still Growing
This year Howett Thorpe celebrates 30 years in the accountancy and finance recruitment industry, so [...]
How To Secure a Finance/Accountancy Position in the South East
SMEs across the South East need financial expertise to look after the bottom line but [...]
The GDPR Effect: How To Recruit New Talent
The EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – which comes into force on 25thMay 2018 [...]
The Financial Job Market: What’s It Like For Candidates?
If your company is looking to recruit within your accounts department, it’s worth understanding what [...]
8 Reasons Why Talented Employees Leave
There are many reasons why talented employees may leave their finance role. In some cases [...]
Glassdoor’s 2018 Best Places to Work
If you’re looking for a new role in accountancy or finance, it’s helpful to narrow your [...]
How To Attract Top Talent To Your Finance Department
The ideal scenario for any company that has a recruitment requirement is to have a talent [...]
8 Proven Interview Tips From Recruitment Experts
A job interview can seem like an insurmountable hurdle, there to trip you up before [...]
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