ICAEW Insights
18-08-2021
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?
ICAEW & Smarter Networking
18-11-2019
Networking, networking, networking…. we all know is the best way to grow contacts, secure business, and gain reputation. BUT where and how do you start when you don’t have that big corporate name and it’s just about you?
ICAEW
22-01-2018
A simple guide on how to start building your network
Networking through the screen – How to stay on people’s radar
For more years than I care to admit, I’ve been training and coaching a wide range of professionals, from senior executives to MBA graduates in the subtle art of networking – and of course, since March 2020, this has all been virtual! The most frequent question I’ve been asked is how to network remotely, implying that networking in the ‘new normal’ is somehow materially different to life pre-COVID 19.
30-01-2020
30 January 2020: we are often told about the importance of networking; it’s all about who you know, right? In the digital age with the ease of a LinkedIn request, how do you build those relationships? Rachel Underhill, ICAEW’s Business Strategy Manager, has some answers.
eBooks
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What color is your parachute? 2018 : a practical manual for job-hunters and career-changers.
The world's most popular job-search book gives guidance with up-to-the-minute information and advice for today's job-hunters and career-changers. Gives advice on which job-hunt strategies work--and which don't. This revised edition combines classic elements like the famed Flower Exercise with updated tips on social media and search tactics. The entire job-search process is demystified, from writing resumes to interviewing to networking.
How to make partner and still have a life
Aims how to show how career development can be accomplished while maintaining a good work-life balance. It is focused specifically on achieving partnership in a firm, and contains guidance on routes to partnership, networking over the course of a career, and the partnership selection process.
Personal impact: what it takes to make a difference
This personal development guide covers communication and other interpersonal skills useful for professional advancement. It includes chapters on public speaking, networking skills, assertiveness, and presentation skills.
Essential guide to business etiquette, The
The book is aimed at staff who need to build their communication and networking skills to progress in their careers. It includes chapters on job interview etiquette, business dress, office politics, social and cultural sensitivity, electronic communication etiquette, written communication and presentation, dining, entertaining, meetingsm, travel, and cultural issues encountered in international travel.
Survive office politics: how to steer a course through minefields at work
Strategies for dealing with common problems in office politics and stressful situations at work. Includes chapters on coping with a difficult boss, non-verbal communication, managing perceptions, networking, dealing with office romances, and managing office politics in meetings.