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Read the latest articles on recruitment published in ICAEW's Insights hub.
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Employers warned to avoid payroll tax credits schemes
  • Article
  • 18 Nov 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
HMRC has published a briefing warning employers and recruitment agencies against using “fraudulent” schemes that claim to reduce employment taxes.
Image of Victoria Street and West Bow in Edinburgh, on a sunny day. Shoppers are in the street and bunting hangs between the shops.
Review supply chains for mini umbrella companies, says HMRC
  • Article
  • 15 Sep 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
HMRC is writing to employment businesses and recruitment agencies to ask them to check for and remove any mini umbrella companies (MUCs) from their supply chains.
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Perceptions deter businesses from adopting school leaver apprenticeships
  • Article
  • 14 Feb 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Most businesses that recruit school leaver apprentices plan to recruit more in the next five years. However, preconceived ideas about the work it takes to offer such apprenticeships mean many organisations miss out on young talent.
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Five in-demand skills for accountants in 2025
  • Article
  • 14 Feb 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
We speak to recruitment experts to reveal the key skills and attributes accountants need to stand out in a competitive job market.
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The headhunter’s view: AI means it’s time to get personal
  • Article
  • 29 Jan 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
AI is coming for parts of your job, but if you can’t beat them, join them, says Mark Freebairn.
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The headhunter’s view: the downside to remote working
  • Article
  • 22 Oct 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
Want to get ahead? Get into the office, says Mark Freebairn.
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The skills most in demand by accountancy recruiters
  • Article
  • 03 Oct 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
Average CFO salaries in London demand £246k-plus and accountancy employers encourage staff to explore generative AI tools as demand for accountants proficient in digital transformation, automation and AI ramps up.
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Small practice marketing in a GenAI world
  • Article
  • 12 Jul 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
Clients and prospective employers may soon be learning about you through GenAI tools. Here’s how to ensure that your content will be read well by both machines and humans.
Accountancy jobs market buoyant despite slump
  • Article
  • 20 Mar 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
Job confidence growth sits at near record high since research began in 2009 regardless of current economic conditions, new analysis reveals.
ICAEW opens recruitment drive to reshape Board
  • Article
  • 23 Jan 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
As part of ICAEW’s efforts to modernise its governance, the institute is recruiting new Board members. ICAEW is looking for six chartered accountants with leadership experience to help lead the profession over the next decade.
Mass exodus of FTSE 100 CFOs in 2023
  • Article
  • 14 Dec 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
Personal motivation and a challenging business environment are factors at play, according to headhunter Russell Reynolds Associates. For their replacements, recruiting organisations are increasingly focusing on capabilities, behaviours and values.
Cast the leadership net wider, UK SMEs urged
  • Article
  • 16 Aug 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
New research shows that almost two thirds of PE investors are seeking new executive leadership for their portfolio firms, and that they should look to recruit from countries that have weathered similar economic and regulatory storms.
How’s the accountancy recruitment market?
  • Article
  • 04 May 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
Which skills are most sought after by employers, and how can you make the most of the current marketplace?
Accountants reject regions as recruitment crisis deepens
  • Article
  • 23 Mar 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
With just two potential applicants for every accounting role, firms in Manchester and Nottingham are bearing the brunt of the talent shortage, new research has revealed.
What’s creating the talent shortage?
  • Article
  • 27 Feb 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
The accountancy profession is not unique in its talent-sourcing challenges. A number of factors, both global and UK-based, are colliding to create a perfect storm for businesses.
The finance team toolkit part 4: the right people
  • Article
  • 17 Feb 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
If the current war for talent shows us anything, it’s that systems and processes are nothing without talented people. Here finance transformation executive, Neil Cutting focuses on the ‘people pillar’ of organisational transformation.
Accountancy recruitment outlook buoyant as recession beckons
  • Article
  • 31 Jan 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
How concerned should professionals be about opportunities and pay in the next 12 months? Two finance recruiters provide a broadly encouraging overview.
Recruiting and retaining talent in a volatile market
  • Article
  • 14 Oct 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
If businesses want to bypass the inflation-busting salary hikes to attract top accountant talent, they need to offer more flexible working arrangements, warns the director of specialist recruiter.
Robin Vela
Spotlight on: Robin Vela
  • Article
  • 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...
Ololade Adesanya
Spotlight on: Ololade Adesanya
  • Article
  • 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.
Joshua Enefiok
Spotlight on: Joshua Enefiok
  • Article
  • 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.
Leah Gooden-Walton
Spotlight on: Leah Gooden-Walton
  • Article
  • 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.
Kudzanai Mumbure
Spotlight on: Kudzanai Mumbure
  • Article
  • 22 Sep 2022
Kudzanai is an internal auditor in the financial services industry with a special focus on insurance and banking companies.
Angela Appiah Shippey
Spotlight on: Angela Appiah Shippey
  • Article
  • 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.
Nelson Amunikoro
Spotlight on: Nelson Amunikoro
  • Article
  • 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.
Kristian Valentine
Spotlight on: Kristian Valentine
  • Article
  • 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.
Will more open recruitment styles benefit accountancy?
  • Article
  • 20 Sep 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
PwC’s decision to remove its 2:1 degree requirement from graduate and undergraduate roles signals a shift towards hiring based on aptitude and skills rather than academic achievement.
The internship that hopes to offer a real opportunity
  • Article
  • 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.
A fresh start: why onboarding matters
  • Article
  • 17 Aug 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
First impressions count in a candidate-driven market, so from the moment a new recruit signs on the dotted line, the job of welcoming them aboard – and keeping them on board – begins.
Decline in applicant numbers raises alarm for recruiters
  • Article
  • 11 Aug 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
Recruitment in the accountancy sector is hitting problems as the number of candidates for each vacancy is falling dramatically, indicating a growing skills shortage.
Employers must be more creative to recruit and retain talent
  • Article
  • 01 Jul 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
Hybrid working is a clear favourite among employees, but organisations must devise strategies for inclusion and keep staff engaged and motivated on an on-going basis, PwC research finds.
Businesses regret new hires made in haste
  • Article
  • 06 May 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
Amid a frenzy of recruitment activity, better job descriptions and flexibility are some of the improvements business leaders can make in recruitment.
The Tax Faculty is recruiting a new tax manager
  • Article
  • 11 Apr 2022
  • ICAEW
ICAEW’s Tax Faculty is seeking a qualified Chartered Accountant or tax specialist with excellent general technical and practical knowledge of UK taxes and the UK tax system to join its team.
GAAR Advisory Panel seeks new members
  • Article
  • 01 Apr 2022
  • ICAEW
HMRC is recruiting three new volunteers to join the General Anti-Abuse Rule Advisory Panel.
Tackling staff shortages with social mobility
  • Article
  • 16 Feb 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
Amid the current talent and skills shortage, the temptation for business owners and recruiters to panic hire to plug skills gaps in their business may feel overwhelming. But this approach can risk dismantling efforts to build a diverse workforce.
Social mobility: creating a more inclusive recruitment culture
  • Article
  • 08 Feb 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
With job vacancies at an all-time high, and many people having left the labour market during the pandemic, organisations are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of inclusion.
Social mobility: Challenges in the war for talent
  • Article
  • 31 Jan 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
With rising numbers of job vacancies in the UK, organisations are working to improve recruitment. Embracing diversity will help them stand out from the crowd.
Top accountancy organisations make diversity pledge
  • Article
  • 12 Nov 2021
  • ICAEW Insights
ICAEW and other member organisations of Access Accountancy have pledged to extend work on diversity as a new report benchmarks the background of UK accountancy recruits for the first time.
Poor interviewer behaviours hamper business recruitment drive
  • Article
  • 10 Nov 2021
  • ICAEW Insights
There's a war for talent raging across the UK, with vacancies soaring to record levels. But even though an interview is the perfect opportunity for employers to entice candidates to work for them, organisations desperate to recruit good people are falling at the first hurdle, with poor interview behaviours putting candidates off accepting jobs.
Employers must evolve onboarding process or face employee drift
  • Article
  • 09 Nov 2021
  • ICAEW Insights
How do you effectively integrate new hires into your business when many employees are working virtually? “In the era of ‘The Great Resignation’, a little TLC to an onboarding process might not go amiss”.
Burnout: The reality of 2021 for women in the workplace
  • Article
  • 20 Oct 2021
  • ICAEW Insights
The latest Women in the Workplace report shows that women working in corporate roles in America are increasingly burned out, are still being recruited into management roles at a far lower rate than their male counterparts and lack recognition for their leadership.
Salary rises drive benefits packages rethink
  • Article
  • 30 Sep 2021
  • ICAEW Insights
Knowing what to pay finance professionals can be a minefield at the best of times, but with the current combination of skills shortages and reduced candidate availability pushing up salaries by as much as 10%, employers are forced to be more creative in the packages they offer, recruitment experts are warning.
How to market yourself and attract business on LinkedIn
  • Article
  • 18 Aug 2021
  • ICAEW Insights
LinkedIn is an easy way for accountants to network, recruit and pitch for new business, but what is best practice when it comes to demonstrating your value in the online community?
How to attract accountants in high demand
  • Article
  • 17 Aug 2021
  • ICAEW Insights
How do businesses recruit good finance professionals in an overheated market? In this climate they are hard – but not impossible – to attract, says specialist recruiter David Clark.
EY plans neurodivergent employee recruitment to wield creative edge
  • Article
  • 20 Jul 2021
  • ICAEW Insights
EY has set its sights on neurodiversity as the next target of its diversity and inclusion campaign, with a plan to recruit 150 neurodivergent individuals over the next three years.
Pandemic drives severe skills shortage in the professional sector
  • Article
  • 29 Jun 2021
  • ICAEW Insights
Almost a third of employers across the financial, professional and business services sector are struggling to recruit due to widespread skills shortages aggravated by the COVID pandemic, with thousands of critical roles particular in data and technology remaining unfilled.
Deloitte: unemployment peak flattens as labour market evolves
  • Article
  • 09 Jun 2021
  • ICAEW Insights
Ian Stewart, Deloitte's Chief Economist in the UK, believes the job market has surpassed resiliency estimates as the OBR now predicts an unemployment peak of 6.5% from the pandemic, down from the 12% forecasted last year.
Remote working part 4: recruitment and training
  • Article
  • 12 Mar 2021
  • ICAEW Insights
In the fourth part of ICAEW’s series on remote working, we hear two chartered accountants’ perspectives on how the shift online has affected recruitment and training.
Remote working part 1: virtually onboarding new talent
  • Article
  • 08 Mar 2021
  • ICAEW Insights
In the first of a new remote working series, we speak with a CFO on their experience integrating a whole business through remote acquisition, as well as a recent virtually onboarded employee.
Exclusive How to recruit a balanced team
  • Article
  • 17 Feb 2021
  • Mark Simmonds
  • Business and Management
In the current pandemic organisations need creative, flexible thinkers as much as they do analysts and decision-makers. It’s time to review your recruitment process, says Mark Simmonds
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