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Read our top tips for accountancy employee retention, which will help your business reduce turnover and keep your finance teams engaged and committed.

Are you working towards your accountancy qualifications? Hannah has some tips for the most popular worries that come up for part-qualified finance professionals.

When most hiring managers think about temporary recruitment, it’s usually in response to an emergency: someone’s off sick, a project is stalling, or there's been a last minute resignation out of the blue. It’s a knee-jerk hire. Get someone in. Keep things moving. Fix it later.

If you’ve ever applied for a job, you’ll know that interview feedback can be like gold dust; that is, in short supply and hard to come by. Even if you do receive it, it typically comes via email and can include such gems as “you weren’t the right fit”, “you were pipped to the post” and “someone scored higher than you on the technical test”. None of these actually tell the candidate anything they are able to use.

We need to change the way we’re thinking about the idea of a four-day working week.

Today is International Equal Pay Day; a significant date on the global calendar with the intention of raising awareness about the fact the gender pay gap continues to persist in the modern world. There shouldn’t be a gender pay gap, but whilst there is, days like today will serve as a reminder of this economic disparity and also of the continued efforts needed to achieve pay equity across the globe.