Market update November 2020
Over the weekend I watched the film, Castaway. Afterwards, I had a wry smile as I reflected on the similarities between Tom Hank’s predicament to that of both recruitment providers and many senior finance & transformation professionals not in a contract when lockdown started. Let’s be frank. The last eight months has invariably been one […]
Institute of Interim Management (IIM) Annual Survey 2020
The Institute of Interim Management (IIM) has in the last week published its annual survey for 2020. Around 2500 professionals responded allowing the IIM to provide the most authoritative survey on the current state of the interim market in the UK. As well as providing statistical information the survey also lists the Top 80 interim […]
Captain’s Log 12th June
Today The Captain of HMS Greenwell Gleeson told his crew mates a yarn in their morning briefing. There was a ship in the eye of the most brutal storm. It had temporarily lost some ship mates in a JRS lifebaot. Other vessels around them were equally in trouble. The size and ferocity of the storm was […]
Crowe LLP funding flow chart for business
Greenwell Gleeson is very happy to support our stakeholders by providing a link to the latest Crowe LLP funding flow chart for business owners and their finance executives. Crowe LLP a global accounting firm and in the Top 10 largest UK accounting firms very quickly realised the need to provide enterprises with up to date […]
COVID-19 The issues & advice to professionals around communication with agencies
The Issues Around Engagement Between Recruiters & Professionals Seeking New Opportunities …and Advice for Professionals in their Job Search After a prolonged period of 4-6 weeks of inactivity in terms of any new instructions from clients, we have, in the last couple of weeks seen the recruitment tap turned on, and it has at least, […]
Make UK, champions and celebrates British manufacturing and manufacturers
Greenwell Gleeson has recently forged a very good relationship with Charlotte Horobin, Charlotte Horobin on LinkedIn Regional Director for the Midlands & East of England. Following her passionate support of our manufacturing base during an interview on the BBC we happily agreed to share some of the fantastic content Make UK are putting out to […]
A message from Rob Lawton
We should celebrate our relationships now more than ever. Firstly can I wish anyone reading this post good health both to you, and your loved ones, for the weeks and months ahead. It has been relatively a good couple of weeks at greenwellgleeson in the most basic of metrics, new placements. Over the weekend I […]
Thank you
We made it through the longest April on record and it’s Friday so that’s two reasons to smile! I wanted to take this opportunity to thank all the clients and candidates that we have engaged with since lock-down. We remain open and available for chats/moans/whines and also recruitment (should this be on your radar). The […]
WWFC Business Club
Some of the Wolverhampton Wanderers FC Business Club enjoyed a fabulous breakfast this morning at the Mount Hotel In Wolves.. thanks to Scott Bernard for hosting the event. Great to see the continued investment he is putting in to the hotel to turn it in to the hotel of choice for business functions locally. Great […]
Make UK Export Breakfast
We enjoyed attending the Make UK Export Breakfast event this morning at the Technology Centre…intriguing chat! What is Make UK? Manufacturing in the UK accounts for 44% of our economies exports, worth £273billion to the UK economy….however, there is much room for improvement. Make Uk are keen to inspire, encourage and support manufacturers to take their […]
BGF Christmas drinks
A massive thanks to Tom Horton for the invite to the BGF Financial Services Christmas drinks at the Lewis Building. A true snapshot of all that is great about the Birmingham deal-making scene.
Breakfast with Insider Media
Great to see many connections at Insider Media #goldenopportunity breakfast this morning. Always good to start the day with a bacon butty and a coffee.
Spot prize update
After two weeks the latest spot prize leaderboard has flipped again… Vijay Sohal, Duncan Wise and Paul Green are the new top three with Hayden Cooper, Christopher Taylor, Chris Yearsley, Keith Barrow, Lakhvinder Sarai , Charles Wood and our own Barry Sheldon making up the top ten. The prize is for the best performing team […]
Join us for reciprocity drinks event on 9th October
Following on from the recent successes of the #reciprocitydrinks during the course of the year we have decided to take it on the road. This is our first foray outside of Birmingham Centre and we have chosen the recently opened Indian Brewery in Solihull. greenwellgleeson sits uniquely in the West Midlands business community with our ability, […]
Latest FPL spot prize
The latest spot prize for the greenwell gleeson – Finance & Accountancy recruitment hashtag FPL update can be seen below: John Ternent leads the way with Andy Knight and Jon Morrell in hot pursuit! Wayne Barker, Richard Paterson, Christopher Taylor, Lakhvinder Sarai, Duncan Wise, Trevor Clingo and Paul Whitehouse make up the top ten. GW6 […]
Reciprocity breakfast networking event
Many thanks for those that came to greenwell gleeson – Finance & Accountancy recruitment reciprocity breakfast at the Lime Tree Cafe in Wolves. If you would like to be included on any future networking events then please be in touch… reciprocity@ggltd.co.uk
New graduates join gg
greenwell gleeson – Finance & Accountancy recruitment is exceptionally pleased to have attracted three high calibre, sales focused, ambitious graduates to join our business. We warmly welcomed Elise Whittaker Eve Banner Jennifer Crowther to our business on Monday and they have spent a busy week in the ‘classroom’ learning about us, accountancy and recruitment. All […]
gg featured in Colmore Life
Thanks to Stacey Barnfield for the write up about greenwell gleeson – Finance & Accountancy recruitment in the latest edition of Colmore Life…if you want to talk about recruitment into your business or into your client portfolio then please get in touch. Call 0121 200 7537 or e-mail duncan.wise@ggltd.co.uk
Networking events
A busy day of contrasting networking events for greenwell gleeson – Finance & Accountancy recruitment yesterday…either way fun was had by all. If you would like to be added to our ‘social list’ then drop Duncan an email (duncan.wise@ggltd.co.uk)
7th Heaven – IIM Survey Best in the UK again!
Only this week, for the 7th consecutive year, the 2018 IIM Survey once again ranked Greenwell Gleeson as the leading specialist accountancy & finance recruitment firm across the whole of the UK. Overall we were placed 16th *(21st in 2017) which is our highest ever placing and for the first time & positions GG in […]
Promotion Party
In conjunction with the changes to how we service our markets GG can announce the business has made a raft of internal promotions. A key cornerstone to long-term success for any enterprise seeking to grow is its ability to recognise achievement and future potential by promoting from within. In addition to the recognition and rewards that […]
EPL Winner
So the FPL 17/18 season finished in May and the winner (see pic) was Rob Peters from Electrium and he was the inaugural winner of the GG Trophy (to be retained for 10 months). Rob does have pedigree in the competition as he has won previously and generally there or thereabouts. Andy McKeon was a […]
Poker Night
Many thanks to all that came to our inaugural GG Poker Night! It was a great evening with ecstasy & heartbreak being decided on the river card! Julie Mole came out as winner with our very own Steve Rai ACMA a worthy runner up. St Basils was the biggest winner with monies collected as ‘losers’ […]
Higgs & Sons / Baldwins Football Event
After years of mediocrity and consistent failure playing in goal for GG (sounds familiar to anyone supporting both Wolves and England) Rob was overjoyed to get a dream transfer ( albeit on a loan basis) to play with the boys at Higgs & Sons. A sunny and warm afternoon – is there any other type […]