The comfort zone trap – is it holding your career back?
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The comfort zone trap – is it holding your career back?

What’s climbing got to do with making partner? As it happens, quite a bit. In this blog post I will explain the connection between climbing and making partner, and why it is so important for your career that you challenge yourself to climb out of your comfort zone.  Last week, my family and my sister-in-law’s…

How to quickly excel to get promoted from audit supervisor to manager
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How to quickly excel to get promoted from audit supervisor to manager

If you’re an auditor and want to move up the ladder quickly; if you want to get from supervisor to manager this year here is how to excel so you get noticed for promotion.   Sometimes the supervisor role outside of audit has a different title such as ‘senior associate’ (PwC Corporate Finance), or ‘senior consultant’…

9 secrets of Directors who successfully made it to Partner in a Big 4 firm – part 2
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9 secrets of Directors who successfully made it to Partner in a Big 4 firm – part 2

How to make partner in a Big 4 accounting firm (EY, Deloitte, KPMG and PwC) To make partner in a big 4 accounting firm (EY, Deloitte, KPMG and PwC) is often seen as the pinnacle of achievement for an Accountant or Consultant. However, many talented professionals fail to make it to partner at a Big…

9 secrets of Directors who successfully made it to Partner in a Big 4 firm – part 1
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9 secrets of Directors who successfully made it to Partner in a Big 4 firm – part 1

How to make partner at a Big 4 firm (EY, Deloitte, KPMG and PwC) Making partner at a Big 4 accounting or consulting firm (EY, Deloitte, KPMG and PwC) is often seen as the pinnacle of achievement for an Accountant or Consultant. However, many talented professionals fail to make it to partner at a Big…

big 4 accounting firms
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Seven main differences between working for Big 4 and Mid-Tier firms

Working in Big 4 or Mid Tier Firms – what are the differences? Working for one of the Big 4 – KPMG, EY, Deloitte, or PwC – is often seen as the best career for accountancy and consultancy professionals. It’s certainly great for the CV, but how different is the experience from working in a…

4 tips to help take the stress out of doing verbal and numerical reasoning tests
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4 tips to help take the stress out of doing verbal and numerical reasoning tests

One element of the partnership admissions process, particularly if you are a lateral candidate, is verbal and numerical reasoning tests. These are normally nothing to be feared. If you haven’t done any verbal or numerical reasoning tests for a fair few years, these can become a very stressful part of the whole partnership admissions process….

Why my coming 292nd out of 330 will help you make partner
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Why my coming 292nd out of 330 will help you make partner

My face was bright red, I was sweating from every single part of me… but I was smiling and ecstatically happy. My husband was by my side. There was of course, some fairly tight and revealing clothing being worn… … but you would expect that as I was at the finish line of The Marston…

What changes as you move from senior associate to partner in a Magic Circle Law Firm? (It’s more than just your job title)
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What changes as you move from senior associate to partner in a Magic Circle Law Firm? (It’s more than just your job title)

Many a senior associate and junior partner has come a cropper by failing to realise how the goal posts change when you finally get partner on your business card. In this blog post, we talk about how to make partner in a Magic Circle law firm by examining how the role of a partner in…

6 tried and tested tips to successfully ask for a pay rise in an accountancy firm
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6 tried and tested tips to successfully ask for a pay rise in an accountancy firm

How to ask for a pay rise in an accountancy firm Apparently we are now starting to come out of the recession and there is a war for good accountancy talent hotting up (actually, there really is a war for talent in the accountancy marketplace). However, your salary may have increased since the beginning of…

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