Summary

Finance Directors from across the region are to be honoured with the launch of the North West Finance Director Awards by financial recruitment specialists Sharp Consultancy, along with Barclays Commercial Bank, Grant Thornton and Halliwells

Leading financial recruiter, Sharp Consultancy is continuing to expand and strengthen its Manchester office with the appointment of James Cadwaladr as its new North West regional manager.

Some of Doncaster’s most prominent businesses have come together to raise money for Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice.

Leading financial recruiter, Sharp Consultancy has appointed Simon Massey as Regional Director with a brief to drive and strengthen its Manchester office and develop the business across the North West region.

Love it or loathe it, networking is a facet of today’s business culture that we are all encouraged by our senior management to embrace.

Do you put enough spin on your personal talents? In an ever changing world of work it is increasingly essential that we all put a positive spin on our career to ensure we carry on moving up the ladder.

It’s not just Naomi Campbell’s assistants; everyone seems to have had a difficult boss at sometime and it could be causing serious staff turnover or ‘churn’ according to new research by specialist financial recruiters Sharp Consultancy.

With growing numbers of exam cheat stories hitting the national headlines, ensuring a potential candidates CV is bonafide is key to employing not only the right person for the job, but an individual who is both honest and trustworthy.

Local Yorkshire businessman, Chris Sharp took on a challenge of a life time when he took part in this year’s New York Marathon to help raise money for The Alzheimers Society.

Seventeen of Sheffield’s most prominent businesses came together to take part in leading financial recruiter, Sharp Consultancy’s annual charity bowling tournament to help raise money for the South Yorkshire Flood Disaster Relief Fund.

It’s all too easy to feel that you’re stuck in a rut with your career, especially if you’ve been with a company for a while and either haven’t been promoted or can’t see it happening in the near future.

Some people seem to be bullet proof and can save their jobs, if not their reputations, after even the worst of mistakes or even after multiple mistakes.

The past decade has seen a rapid growth in demand for recruitment consultancies, reflecting a long-term shift towards outsourcing and more flexible employment practices both in the private and public sectors.

When I think of the word mentor, I think of someone who offers guidance, who teachers, and who counsels when need be. No one has mentored me more throughout my life, than my father, Donald Sharp. An ambitious and respected Scottish born chartered accountant, who in 1964 arrived in Portugal with his wife Pat and a young family, and not even a word of Portuguese.

Sending the odd personal email, or surfing the web for the latest deals on summer get aways when you are at work might seem harmless, but a recent study found that we can lose up to two hours of the working day* to interruptions. This means that a staggering 57.5 working days a year are wasted on things that do not fulfil our job descriptions.

Mark Wilson is managing director of Sharp Consultancy, a specialist financial recruiter based in Leeds, Sheffield and Doncaster. Mark identifies his top ten tips for getting into recruitment.

Sharp Consultancy has compiled a Top Ten of most annoying office habits, with over 42% of people saying that bad manners was the most annoying gripe.

In the UK, notice periods can range from one month to three months depending on the industry, but just because you are leaving, does not mean you can let yourself go.