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Blind CV Review: The Good, The Bad & The Unnecessary 👀📄

What do recruiters actually think when they read your CV? 👀📄
We put Paddy, George, Alex and...

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Most Likely To: Founders Edition 👀

How well does the We Do team really know our three founders? 👀
We decided to find out by...

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Your First 100 Days in a New Finance Leadership Role

5 min read
Published 1 week ago

New role, new desk, new team, new set of numbers that somebody expects you to understand by Friday.
Starting a finance leadership role, whether that’s Financial Controller, Finance Director...

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How to Choose a Top Finance Recruiter

6 min read
Published 2 weeks ago

If you were going to court, you wouldn’t pick your barrister at random.
You’d want the best one you could find. Someone who knows the law, knows the judge and knows exactly how to make...

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The 60 Second Poetry Challenge 🍇 ✍️

60 seconds. One bunch of grapes. One very important rule: you can’t use the word “grapes”....

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Burnout in Finance Teams: Spotting the Signs Before Year End

6 min read
Published 2 weeks ago

Finance teams are brilliant at deadlines.
Month end, quarter end, year end, audit, budgets, forecast, reforecasts, the “quick question” that arrives at 5.45pm on a Friday and somehow...

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The Timed Jigsaw Challenge 🧩 ⏱️

The clock is ticking… 🧩⏱️
The We Do team were given a seemingly simple challenge:...

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Want Your New Finance Hire in Place by January? You Need to Start Now

6 min read
Published 3 weeks ago

“Let’s aim to have someone in by January.”
It’s one of the most common things we hear in October.
It sounds like plenty of time. January is three months away. Christmas is...

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The We Do Padel Tournament 🏓

For a bit of Tuesday fun, we invited some of our friends of We Do down for a We Do Padel...

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Paddy’s Back on the Paddleboard… and He Brought Friends 🏄‍♂️

Paddy’s back on the paddleboard, and this time, he’s somehow convinced the rest of the We Do...

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Thank You, 60,000! 🎉

We’ve hit a pretty incredible milestone: 60,000 followers on LinkedIn.
It’s slightly surreal...

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The Real Cost of an Unfilled Finance Vacancy: Can You Afford to Keep Waiting?

9 min read
Published 4 weeks ago

You approved the vacancy in July, the job description was written. A few CVs came through, somebody went on holiday, one candidate wasn’t quite right, another wanted £5,000 more than you’d...

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