Here is the team from Marc Daniels who are shortly going to do the Three-Peaks Challenge. Despite all working full-time for Marc Daniels specialist recruitment consultancy, they have managed to get many miles of training done, ascending and descending all the local hills. Of course, nothing in South East England is going to come close … Continue reading The 3 Peaks Challenge Team – Only 41 days to go…
On Thurs 28th April, we held a business breakfast with Harwood Hutton at Fredrick’s hotel in Maidenhead. Some of the leading Thames Valley SMEs came along and were treated to a talk from the well respected tax expert Cormac Marum. Cormac enlightened us about his experiences of commenting on the Chancellor’s budget, both for the … Continue reading Top tips from Harwood Hutton’s tax expert, from our SME business breakfast
Shortly after the Budget came the “Finance Bill” (hundreds of pages of legislative detail that sits behind George Osborne’s Budget announcements). Here are some of the key areas from the Bill that are likely to impact SME’s around the Thames Valley. The ‘Business tax road map’ – which sets out the government’s plans for business … Continue reading We’ve all heard the 2016 Budget, now what do the tax changes mean for SME’s?
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, will deliver the next Budget at lunchtime today (Wednesday 16th March 2016). The speech will set out the Government’s plans for the economy plus tax change proposals for the following financial year. What might be announced? Help to Save The Prime Minister has announced a new “Help to Save” scheme … Continue reading Budget 2016 – what do we think will be announced?
We recently announced that we’d signed up to the do the Three Peaks Challenge. So, over the last week events have progressed at a rapid speed. We have flights booked to Glasgow to commence climbing Ben Nevis on Friday 17th June and a minibus to bring us all back on Saturday 18th June from Wales…we … Continue reading Support our Three Peak Challenge with JustGiving
Our very own Slough was the first place David Cameron visited on his campaign trail to persuade Britain to stay in the EU. O2 were one of the first businesses to stand behind the PM saying we should stay in Europe, and the PM used the O2 headquarters for this event. What about other locally … Continue reading The PM visited O2 in Slough yesterday to talk Europe
Marc Daniels has just signed up to the infamous 3 Peaks Challenge in order to raise money for our two charity partners – Thames Hospice and Make-A-Wish® UK. The plans are still a bit sketchy (!) but everyone is very excited about walking a total of 23 miles up and down the largest mountains in … Continue reading Marc Daniels signs up to the 3 Peaks Challenge
You’ve finely tuned your CV…written your covering letter… researched the recruiting company…booked the day off work to go to the interview…answered their interview questions and asked some of your own too. You’ve invested hours in this potential job already and now it’s over, you’re waiting to hear back from them and you’ve heard nothing yet. … Continue reading Why you should do your best to get feedback after a Job Interview
Many different opinions exist about what makes a good CV, at Marc Daniels we know exactly what finance professionals look for when recruiting. The first thing to remember is that a good CV doesn’t guarantee a job interview, but a bad CV will guarantee you won’t get an interview. Your CV is the very first … Continue reading How to write the perfect CV for Finance and Accountancy jobs
Jobs that we once loved can start to become something we just don’t enjoy anymore. Perhaps we find ourselves bored and unchallenged at work, too stressed, our boss might have changed into the “boss from hell”, we can feel passed up for promotion… the list is endless. Sometimes, when this happens we think about jumping … Continue reading Should I stay or should I go?
