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What to prioritise in your first 3 months as Partner
After years of hard work and dedication, you’ve finally reached the mountain top – you’ve been named partner. However, the trouble with achieving these huge career goals is that we often don’t know what to do next. You see, once the celebrations come to a close, many people begin to notice their anxieties creeping in,…
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New partner buy-in: Everything you need to know
A milestone of making partner is paying the new partner buy-in fee. However, with such a huge sum of money, this can be quite a nerve-wracking step (especially since it may require you to take out a mortgage-sized loan *gulp*). To help ease any worries when it comes to the buy-in process, here is everything…
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How to properly switch off from work at the weekend
We would all love to know how to switch off from work the second the clock strikes five or six on a Friday evening. Yet, for many of us, it feels like an impossibility. Often, we view our weekends as a time to catch up and deal with overflow rather than time off. Yet, whilst…
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5 sure-fire ways to get noticed on LinkedIn
Online networking in professional service firms has skyrocketed. And thanks to platforms like LinkedIn, thousands of people have continued to create new contacts, expand their network and establish meaningful connections. However, for many, online networking is still a relatively new concept. So, in response, we’ve created this step-by-step guide to teach you how to get…
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At a career crossroads? 5 essential steps to get unstuck
Finding yourself at a career crossroads can be scary – it often means that change is looming around the corner. Whether you’re deciding to change roles, firms or industries altogether, there are a lot of decisions to make when altering career paths. So what do you do at career crossroads? Throughout this article, we will…
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12 tips to survive and thrive when you move to a new firm
Want to move firms? This one’s for you… I recently finished a great book called ‘Strategies for Being Brilliant’ by Sue Ritchie – the book explores 21 strategies to achieve greater happiness, confidence and success. Throughout the book, Sue draws upon her personal experience with emigration to demonstrate how these unique strategies helped her adjust…
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Business networking tips for accountants (7 ways to save you heaps of time!)
Business Networking. It’s the key to success yet also one of the biggest drains on time, time that most professionals such as lawyers, accountants and consultants just don’t have to spare. So what are your choices: put business networking off to spend time on tasks that give you an instant return on investment? Dedicate the…
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10 tips to ace your presentation to your partnership selection panel
Part of your firm’s partnership admission process in your journey to make partner will probably involve a presentation of your business case and personal case for partnership to a selection of partners. These partners are typically some of the most influential in the partnership. Nerve-wracking stuff! This blog post will give you ten tips to…
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Your top six priorities when you are successful in the partnership admissions vote
Firstly, well done for making it to partner! You have probably made the biggest and toughest step up you are ever going to make in your career. In the few months before your appointment to partner becomes permanent, you have some essential activities to see to. Here is what to do after you make partner…
