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“Climate quitting”: what is it and how can you avoid it?
- 07 Mar 2023
- ICAEW Insights
As jobseekers show increasing willingness to vote with their feet on corporates’ ESG credentials – or lack thereof – how should businesses ensure they keep talent on board?
International Women’s Day: UAE accountants on embracing equity
- 07 Mar 2023
- ICAEW Insights
ICAEW asked some of its top female members from the UAE how chartered accountants can help organisations tackle gender inequality.
International Women’s Day: ICAEW’s inspirational leaders
- 07 Mar 2023
- ICAEW Insights
Women leading ICAEW discuss the biggest issues facing accountancy and offer their career advice.
What’s it like to… change career to accountancy
- 28 Feb 2023
- ICAEW Insights
Accountancy and psychology may feel like opposite ends of the career spectrum, but Abigail Hitchins has found some common ground – and plenty of transferable skills.
Creating an effective talent development pipeline
- 24 Feb 2023
- ICAEW Insights
Businesses must do more to ensure employees have a clear development path if they are to keep and attract more talent.
Apprenticeships can turbocharge aspiring accountants’ careers
- 07 Feb 2023
- ICAEW Insights
To mark National Apprenticeship Week, ICAEW explores how the financial benefits of apprenticeships have been a big driver in their adoption, but talent-hungry businesses can use them as an effective way to address skills shortages.
Getting your 2023 career resolutions back on track
- 02 Feb 2023
- ICAEW Insights
With one in five people pledging to pursue career goals and ambitions in their New Year Resolutions, we’ve asked career experts for their advice on achieving these in 2023.
View from the top: Michael Roberts
- 02 Feb 2023
- ICAEW Insights
Michael Roberts is CEO of 2020 Innovation, a training and support provider for accountancy firms. He tells us how he reached his career goal – owning and running his own business.
What’s your office personality?
- 12 Jan 2023
- ICAEW Insights
Always fall into the same career ruts? Kickstart your accountancy career with New Year’s resolutions from careers coaches at Henley Business School.
Cost-of-living crisis prompts accountants’ job concerns
- 05 Dec 2022
- ICAEW Insights
One in five chartered accountants says cost-of-living crisis is hindering career progression, with concerns about job losses also rife, research finds.
Spotlight on: Ololade Adesanya
- 03 Oct 2022
Ololade Adesanya is a Director at Deloitte with over 14 years’ experience working with firms in the financial services industry, providing advisory and assurance services around governance, risk and controls. She is also the current President of the ICAEW West of England.
Spotlight on: Robin Vela
- 03 Oct 2022
Robin holds various interests in the industrials, property, renewable energy and logistics sectors across Sub-Saharan Africa. He is the Founder and Chair of Lonsa Group Limited, Chair of Lonsa Everite, Deputy Chair of Swartland Investments and Chair of Firstmile Properties. Robin (a fellow of the Chartered Securities Institute in England & Wales) is a professionally qualified and experienced investment banker and in 2016 was appointed to the ICAEW Member’s Advisory Board for Africa. Robin is also a member of the Institute of Directors in Southern Africa, the past patron for the African Institu...
How should we manage the great skills shift?
- 28 Sep 2022
- ICAEW Insights
Amid acute requirements for upskilling and reskilling, does our skills infrastructure have what it takes to train the workforce of the future?
Spotlight on: Joshua Enefiok
- 22 Sep 2022
Joshua joined the Finance Graduate Scheme at a FTSE 100 company in 2015. He was Chair of the Bristol and District Chartered Accountant’s Student Society between 2018 and 2019 and continues to volunteer at the ICAEW as a member of the West of England Committee.
Spotlight on: Leah Gooden-Walton
- 22 Sep 2022
Leah joined UHY Hacker Young in August 2017, and is working towards an ACA qualification at ICAEW. She has found that being a student at ICAEW is already benefiting her at work.
Spotlight on: Kristian Valentine
- 22 Sep 2022
Kristian has six years’ combined experience at EY and MFW. He will soon be joining IPG Mediabrands as a Senior Finance Analyst.
Spotlight on: Nelson Amunikoro
- 22 Sep 2022
Nelson has over seven years’ experience within the profession primarily working in audit both internally and externally. He’s worked for the Big Four accountancy firms and banking organisations.
Spotlight on: Angela Appiah Shippey
- 22 Sep 2022
Angela qualified with Arthur Andersen in 1998 and then spent 20 years working in industry across various sectors including advertising and PR, legal services, banking, healthcare and recruitment. In 2018 she moved back into practice.
Spotlight on: Kudzanai Mumbure
- 22 Sep 2022
Kudzanai is an internal auditor in the financial services industry with a special focus on insurance and banking companies.
The internship that hopes to offer a real opportunity
- 18 Aug 2022
- ICAEW Insights
This summer, the 10,000 Black Interns initiative has offered placements to young people in all areas of business – ICAEW welcomed three potential future accountants to the fold.
How to retain talent in audit
- 27 Jul 2022
- ICAEW Insights
Auditors frequently struggle to hang on to their brightest talent. What should they do to boost retention rates? Firms and recruitment specialists provide some ideas.
Part 2: Learn the right soft skills for career success
- 13 Jun 2022
- ICAEW Insights
In this two-part series, ICAEW speaks to members of the Institute’s Cyprus Younger Members Committee to discover why soft skills are so important, helping them achieve career goals and a good work-life balance.
Part 1: Learn the right soft skills for career success
- 10 Jun 2022
- ICAEW Insights
The uncertainty of the past two years has shown the importance of soft skills. ICAEW speaks to members in Cyprus to find out which skills have been instrumental to their careers as both employees and managers.
Reaching full potential
- 08 Jun 2022
- ICAEW Insights
With improving social mobility and building a diverse workforce being key priorities for ICAEW, two students share their experiences of joining the profession.
"If they can, I can too"
- 24 May 2022
- ICAEW
Role models are crucial in Chartered Accountancy, especially for young Black people, according to student focus group research conducted by ICAEW. Three Black chartered accountants tell their inspirational stories and give their tips for excelling in the profession.
The ACA in Cyprus: helping professional development
- 22 Apr 2022
- ICAEW Insights
As the Cyprus government recently confirmed continuing regulatory recognition of all UK qualifications including the ACA, younger members are realising its benefits for career progression.
What you should expect from allies in your organisation
- 28 Mar 2022
- ICAEW Insights
Allyship has a vital role to play in making organisations more inclusive. Here are four practical steps accountancy students and the newly-qualified can take to build a network of advocates for support and career success.
Using mentoring to combat bias
- 07 Mar 2022
- ICAEW Insights
Workplace mentoring schemes are well established as a tool to support career development. And with International Women’s Day on 8 March, we focus on their role in overcoming gender bias.
5 study techniques to try
- 03 Feb 2022
- ICAEW Insights
Revising by simply reading the same information over and over again? Try these proven strategies to boost your learning (and save you time).
The golden rules of goal setting
- 06 Jan 2022
- ICAEW Insights
At the start of a new year, our thoughts naturally turn to what we hope to achieve over the next 12 months and beyond. So how should you go about setting motivational, achievable goals that will give you the best chance of success?
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