- 20 March 2012 14:00 -
20:00
Chartered Accountants’ Hall
Moorgate Place
London
EC2R 6EA
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Join employers and career experts for all things career related at the ICAEW Recruitment Fair.
Meet potential employers looking to hire ACAs at all levels and get essential career advice from a series of drop-in workshops. Registration is from 2pm and the exhibition is open from 2pm-8pm.
Why you should attend
If you’re thinking about the next stage in your career or want to know what’s going on in the job market for Chartered Accountants, the ICAEW’s Recruitment Fair is a must-attend event. Free to ICAEW members, the event features a series of drop-in sessions on subjects including working internationally and using LinkedIn effectively to help your career.
There’s also an invaluable chance to meet potential employers and recruiters face-to-face in the exhibition hall. Exhibitors to meet on the day are PepsiCo, RSM Tenon, Ernst & Young, Change International, Ambition Recruitment and Hamilton Recruitment. More will be added soon so keep an eye on this page for more information.
You can attend as many career sessions as you like or simply come along to meet the employers. This event is exclusively for ICAEW members and students.
Event programme
14.30
Network your way to Career Success
Learn how to overcome your networking fears, form new business contacts and use your network to further your career and find new opportunities. Gain tips on building your network and find out how to maintain your networking relationships.
The session will explore:
- How to build an effective network
- How to have an effective networking conversation
- Easy ways of approaching people and starting conversations
- How to approach contacts about career opportunities
The workshop will be led by career consultant Bob Griffiths, ACA.
15.30
Interim Management – is it for me?
John Bloor of interim management providers Alium Partners will describe some of the myths and some of the truths about interim management. This will help people who may be considering it as a career path to determine whether it's likely to work for them. His presentation will include:
- Interim Management – what it is and what it isnt
- Deciding what your ‘offer’ to the interim market should be
- Knowing what potential clients are in the market to buy
- Enjoying the rewards and surviving the setbacks.
There will also be opportunities to ask John questions.
16.30
Employers expectations and differentiating yourself in the market
From both a Practice and Banking perspective, specialist recruitment firm Ambition will discuss the opportunities and challenges facing candidates in the current market conditions. They will educate you around the industries they recruit in to, and the roles they recruit for. In this session, you will learn about employers expectations and in this tough job market what specifically you can do to differentiate yourself from the competition. With expert specialist knowledge, Una and Imran, together with their invaluable industry knowledge, will provide CV and consulting advice helping you get to where you want to be in your career
17.30
Change International: The benefits of an international career
Courtney Phipps, a consultant with Change Recruitment who has helped over 100 accountants relocate, will discuss the benefits of an international career. Having made a number of international moves herself, including Canada, Japan and now Scotland, Courtney will provide an overview of the latest locations Change Recruitment have helped accountants secure new opportunities, including some you may not have considered previously.
18.30
Are you LinkedIn or out?
With two new registrations per second and over 8 million users in the UK, can your career afford to ignore LinkedIn.com?
At this workshop you’ll learn how to make the most of LinkedIn for networking and finding new career opportunities. Discover how to take your profile beyond the basic and ordinary and find out what’s new in the LinkedIn world.
The session will explore:
- How to build a professional looking profile
- Tips to increase your discoverability
- Networking successfully online
Paul Harrison, Managing Partner of social media strategy and advisory practice Carve Consulting, will be giving this presentation.
Speakers
Bob Griffiths
After qualifying as a chartered accountant Bob started his own consultancy, working with organisations needing support in getting their financial systems straight. Realising that the human element was key in successful business, he trained to offer coaching services in addition to financial advice.
Bob believes that success is most satisfying when reached through good relationships both inside and outside the workplace. He recognises that true success cannot be measured purely in financial terms and enables people to overcome organisational and personal barriers to achieving their career goals.
Bob has worked extensively in the financial services and manufacturing sectors and has helped many accountancy and finance professionals transition into new roles. Some of his clients include the Ministry of Defence, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Coca Cola Amatil, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and the D.V.L.A.
John Bloor
John Bloor had a successful banking career before becoming an interim management provider in 2001. He worked for Barclays where he had a number of senior regional management roles as well as appointments heading up product and service line areas. He became a regional director responsible for the bank's franchise in the West Midlands, which was the largest UK region of the bank outside of London.
After Barclays, he joined PricewaterhouseCoopers where he developed the firm's Turnaround Panel as a specialist interim management offering; it subsequently became a much copied model in the professional services sector. Before he first joined Alium Partners in 2007 to develop a business transformation practice, John also worked for the US consulting and advisory firm, FTI.
John places senior interim executives in the UK and Europe across many industry sectors and management functions, principally at chief officer level. His background has led to a natural bias towards the financial services sector and, from a functional perspective, finance. However, the common thread that links the majority of placements he has made is clients who have a significant change agenda.
Imran Ul-Ghani and Una Ward
Imran has over 10 years’ experience as a recruiter within Professional Services placing predominantly qualified professionals from Managers to Partners. He has experience of undertaking Contingency and Search projects with a thorough understanding of his client’s needs, their business and market conditions and has managed Practice teams and divisions on a regional and national capacity . Imran is very passionate about both Recruitment and the Market in which he specialises, something that is evident from his track record in the industry and relationships he has built over the years.
He joined Ambition in 2011 heading up the specialist practice team focusing on recruitment in to Accountancy practice and Professional Consultancy.
Una is a Business graduate who joined Ambition, formerly Witan Jardine, in 2006. Her experience is a hybrid of contingent and search assignments within Core Finance across Asset Management, Hedge Funds and the Investment Banking market. She has a solid track record of delivering high quality solutions to each mandate and the degree of her knowledge and the personal commitment that she demonstrates allows her to excel in her market. She became Divisional Manager in December 2010 and now heads up the Banking and Financial Services Permanent Accountancy team.
Courtney Phipps
Currently a Consultant with Change Recruitment Group's International Division in Edinburgh, Courtney's career in recruitment spans over 5 years and began with an in-house recruitment role with PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Cayman Islands (where she is originally from). Courtney has made a number of international moves herself and given her love of all things international, she has also travelled extensively including time spent in Spain, Gibraltar, France, Germany, Italy, Jamaica, USA, Ireland, BVI, Cuba, Barbados, Dominican Republic, Bahamas, Morocco, Mexico, Thailand, Hong Kong, South Korea, Finland and Sweden . Upon arriving in Edinburgh 2 years ago, Courtney joined the world of international recruitment and hasn’t looked back since!
Change Recruitment Group is the largest independent consultancy in Scotland and has the largest international team in the UK. With 53 consultants in the international division alone (and growing!), Change is extremely well positioned to assist with your job search around the world. For those wishing to stay closer to home, our consultants in the domestic division (the market leaders for domestic recruitment in Scotland) are here to help. Change International has also recently established an Executive Appointments Team to better service the specific search requirements of our key clients at a senior level. The four team members are all highly experienced consultants with a strong understanding of the particular demands this level requires.
Paul Harrison
Paul is Managing Partner of social media strategy and advisory practice Carve Consulting. Carve has significant expertise in the recruitment space advising both corporate and agency-side resourcing teams. The practice has developed and implemented corporate social networking strategies, social media marketing and social recruiting programme for a number of public and private organisations, including VisitBritain, Lloyds Register, IKEA, Yell Adworks, The Audit Commission, Fairtrade, ANZ Bank, Hemscott PLC, Hays PLC, Hudson Global and the NHS.
Paul has worked online for more than 12 years, having joined early start-up Taps.com in 1997. He began his career in publishing, having graduated with a degree in Mass Media Communications. Before launching Carve Consulting, Paul set up and developed the new media divisions of two leading UK recruitment advertising agencies.