When we launched The Audit & Recruitment Company in Sept of 2014, we rented shared office space from The Office Group (TOG), and spent our formative 12 months working from the sofa's and chairs of the lounge room in their 19 Eastbourne Terrace building. There's nothing unusual about this and we certainly weren't the only start up in the lounge back then. What was slightly un...

At the end of Q3 we'll be celebrating our 5th anniversary, so it's very pleasing to report that the 1st month of this milestone quarter has been our BEST MONTH EVER! We've come along way since Craig and I sat around a dining table in a small, west London flat hashing out the finer details of our business plan; we've moved offices 4 times (as we've outgrown each one). We've r...

When your Friday afternoon begins with a game of Aunt Sally on a hot day in a lovely pub garden, you know you're in for a fun time. For those who don't know, Aunt Sally is a traditional English game usually played in pub gardens and fairgrounds, in which players throw sticks or battens at a model of an old woman's head. Nice! Jugs of Pims and glasses of very cold G&T's got e...

The Audit & Risk Recruitment Company had great fun at the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors Annual Dinner last night at London's Guildhall. On my table were Claire Hammond, Sally Gilmore, Mark Corfield and Ian Pope - thank you for joining us and making it such a fun night! Marcus - Director, the Audit & Risk Recruitment Company

The Audit & Risk Recruitment Company were delighted to have been given the opportunity to host April's Audit Book Club (www.thebookclubmentoringassociation.com), and hear Josephine Reynold's inspiring story. Journalist, model, TV presenter and the UK's 1st female Firefighter, Jo's lived a fascinating life and we can all learn a lot from her story, I'd highly recomend reading...

When Josephine Reynolds signed up with the Norfolk Fire Service in July 1982 at just seventeen years old, there was no such thing as a firefighter - only fire men. Set against the slate-grey backdrop of early 1980s Britain, Fire Woman is the story of how a young woman brought up in rural Wales coped in the testosterone-fuelled world of the fire brigade, where even today 96 p...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ARRC! On the 29th Sept 2014 Craig and Marcus incorporated The Audit & Risk Recruitment Company (ARRC), and 4 years on and we’re pleased to say we’ve achieved more than we planned, a lot more than we expected, and today we would like to take this opportunity to thank the many, many people who helped along the way. This whole journey started with a conversati...

Internal Audit is a great training ground for business leaders! Myth or reality? I have worked in Internal Audit recruitment for coming up to 7 years and as part of my job, I’ve met with and worked with lots of recently qualified (ACA, ACCA) candidates working in practice who want to make their 1st step into industry. One of the options people at this level have is to join a...

With this year’s ACA results just out, I asked myself a question the other day that I am sure will resonate with a number of people in the corridors of practice firms all over the country…’is internal audit a good 1st career step for a recently qualified accountant looking for their 1st job in industry’? I started recruiting people into internal audit in the year 2000 and I’...