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6 pretty big clues that you will make partner – and confidence isn’t one of them…
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6 pretty big clues that you will make partner – and confidence isn’t one of them…

Many young professionals sadly never achieve their burning ambition of making partner, regardless of whether they start at a Big 4 firm. However, it’s pretty easy to see who is going to make it through to partnership, just by looking out for these six clues. 1. Have a rough timescale to make partner Those future…

Career Clinic: I’m bored in industry, should I move back into practice?
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Career Clinic: I’m bored in industry, should I move back into practice?

I always love receiving career questions in my inbox from the folks who have signed up for our career kitbag. This  recent question really made me stop and think.  The background to the question was that the individual concerned had spent six years in a Big4 before moving out to industry for rwo years. However,…

Conflict Resolution Tip: Context is normally everything
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Conflict Resolution Tip: Context is normally everything

Imagine this… You get on a train, planning to do some work on your iPad while you head into London. As the train progresses, it gets fuller and fuller. As a result, you move your coat and bag to let a family sit down next to you. The family is composed of a 5 year…

Business Development Clinic: How to write a proposal which will help us win a competitive tender? Part 2
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Business Development Clinic: How to write a proposal which will help us win a competitive tender? Part 2

This is the second part of a 2-part blog post – the first part can be found here. Read on for more tips to help you win that bid.  Use diagrams wherever possible As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, and this is very true for proposals. Many people find large…

Why is regularly ‘feeding your soul’ so important to making partner?
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Why is regularly ‘feeding your soul’ so important to making partner?

If you are going to work at peak performance, then you need to think differently about your health and well-being. Or as Chris William’s, performance coach to partners in the magic circle and Big 4, puts it, “Alternative Asset Management”. Most of us will find ourselves working at full stretch on the journey to get…

If you could read just one book to help your career move forward…
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If you could read just one book to help your career move forward…

When Jo and I wrote ‘How to make partner and still have a life‘, we wanted to leave a legacy. In our combined 30 years in the professions, we had seen far too many able, clever and talented people fail to make partner, mostly because of a lack of knowledge of how the process works….

Business Development Clinic: why even the best networkers don’t win business from networking
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Business Development Clinic: why even the best networkers don’t win business from networking

In this Business Development Clinic, we consider what you need to have thought about and researched, BEFORE you go networking – even if you are meeting the right people. Let me tell you a true story of a good friend of mine. Let’s call him Steven. He took the decision to move from the relative…

Welcome from the Big4.com

Everything you need to get to partner – and when you get there, stay there Welcome to the leading global website for professionals in practice wanting to progress their career.  It’s run by Heather Townsend, the leading global expert in what it takes to move from senior fee earner to partner – and when you…

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