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  • Minister Heather Humphreys Launches the 2019 Lincoln Recruitment Irish Early Career Awards

    Fast track promotion, flexible working conditions and an emphasis on wellbeing are just some of the issues employees consider when taking on a new role. Despite an optimistic outlook being maintained by employers and employees for 2019, new research from Lincoln Recruitment specialist’s ‘a new decade of work’ salary and employment insights has revealed a…

  • Lincoln Gaelic Football Skills Day with Dublin Senior Footballers

    Lincoln Recruitment  were delighted to host our annual Gaelic Football Skills Day with Dublin senior footballers; with Paul Flynn, Michael Darragh Macauley, Cormac Costello, Hannah O’Neill, Niamh Mc Evoy and Emma McDonagh. We had over 140 children attend the day ranging from 7-12 years of age. The Dublin GAA stars spent the afternoon coaching the kids, giving…

  • How to Ask High Impact Questions at Interviews

    Interviews are supposed to offer a mutual opportunity for both parties to assess the other for suitability. While traditionally interviews tend to be led by the employer, there is a prime opportunity during the question stage for the interviewee to turn the tables. This is the right time to throw in a high impact question.…

  • Are We Finally Over the Obsession With Sector Experience?

    Is Sector Experience Overrated? As little as a few years ago, a typical management profile would entail a leader who spent the majority of his/her career working within the same industry the company is positioned in. At best, they might have come from an adjacent industry (think insurance to banking). There were reasons for this…

  • Lincoln Annual Golf Day at the K Club

    Lincoln Annual Golf Day at the K Club The Lincoln Annual Golf Classic 2019 took place in the beautiful surrounds of the K Club on the Ryder Cup Course on Friday 24th May. With fabulous weather throughout the day and a golf course in impeccable condition a wonderful golfing experience was had by all teams.…

  • Does Culture Still Eat Strategy For Breakfast? If So, What’s the Recipe for Success?

    “Culture eats strategy for breakfast” was a quote articulated by Peter Drucker that later percolated into mainstream media thanks to Ford CEO Mark Fields. It implies that the determinants of a company’s long-term success revolve more around the culture they cultivate than the strategy they formulate. Whether that quote is true or not is a…

  • UPCOMING EVENT: Evolution & Change: Opportunities Offered by the Irish Funds Market

    Evolution & Change: Opportunities Offered by the Irish Funds Market Lincoln Recruitment Specialists, Pinsent Masons, Bridge Consulting, MUFG and PwC would like to invite you to a half day conference surrounding the opportunities offered by the Irish funds market. Whatever the outcome of the Brexit negotiations, Ireland, with its highly developed infrastructure and expert advisers…

  • Questions to ask yourself before you ask for a raise/promotion as a Chartered Accountant

    Have you found yourself in work as a chartered accountant and wonder whether you are being paid what you are worth?  Or maybe you have worked for several years in that role and have began to think about what it would be like to get a promotion? You know that you are completing your job…

  • Want To Be A Good Retail Manager? Read These Top Tips

    The Background on Leadership When you are trying to recruit new employees into a retail company, you will want to evaluate them for their potential to become future managers. Retail organisations must change to become more dynamic, or they will go out of business like many around the world including pop up shops and large…

  • The Future of Accountancy and Artificial Intelligence

    The History In 500 years there have been little or no game changing innovations in accountancy since double entry was invented. Maybe the creation of the electronic calculator in the 1960’s is the last time anyone can point to an advancement that excited and terrified accountants in equal measure. Since then the computer and internet…

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