This document discusses Hays Taxation's partner recruitment services for accounting firms. It summarizes that Hays Taxation helps firms expand their tax business by recruiting the right tax partners. They have specialists who recruit for equity, fixed share, and salaried partner opportunities across all tax disciplines. Hays Taxation also provides firms tools to attract candidates, such as networking through their national office network, media profiling, and targeted mailshots to institutes. Their goal is to provide top-level recruitment strategies to help firms source the best partner candidates.

1. Tax partnership program

2. Pursuing excellence
across all business lines
• Corporation tax • International tax
• Employee issues • Private clients
• Expatriate tax • Transfer pricing
• Indirect tax • Trusts

3. Accelerating your
career within the
right partnership
As a key service line in any accounting firm, tax is generating more revenue than ever
before. As a result, firms are keen to expand their tax partner groups and plan for
succession to ensure they remain competitive in the market place.
We understand that it might have been a while since you considered a career move
– and longer still since you had to prepare yourself and your career history for
assessment in the market. In considering a move at senior level therefore, whether you
are currently a partner or aspire to partnership, the move must be orchestrated carefully
and with a close attention to detail.
Hays Taxation is committed to providing a tailored service to suit your own recruitment
requirements and possesses the capabilities locally, nationally and internationally to
explore all options from international accounting firms to national and independent
practices. We have a team of specialists who recruit for equity, fixed share/salaried
partners and director opportunities across all tax disciplines.
Our aim is to help you make the right career decision by providing you with an
unparalleled level of market knowledge.
Absolute discretion and confidentiality are
our first priorities.
Practical support
• National market overview – which firms are recruiting and why
• Selecting the right partnership opportunities to suit you
• Compiling and enhancing your personal profile
• How to best handle competency-based interviews
• Partnership assessment centres – what to expect and how to prepare
• Negotiating the best package including profit share and bonuses

4. An influential
ambassador for
your business
Many firms are striving to develop and expand their service offering to clients by
channelling increased resources into their tax business. Having the right partnership
team in place is key to this growth.
Hays Taxation’s partner recruitment program focuses on providing top-level recruitment
strategies and solutions to enable professional firms to attract the best partners into
your business.
Attracting candidates requires creative solutions
Typically, the pool of partnership talent that exists within the taxation market place is
eclipsed by the demand for such individuals. At Hays Taxation, we offer a suite of
candidate attraction tools which have proven effective for our clients over the years.
Networking across the UK
Partners are becoming increasingly mobile in order to secure the right position. Through
a national network of nine offices across the UK, Hays Taxation can access an unrivalled
database of senior tax professionals to source the right candidate for your firm.
Media profiling
Our regular presence in professional and national press ensures both our business and
the opportunities we advertise are at the forefront of the market place. Our in-house
media agency can design and produce advertising to match any specification and, in
many cases, we are able to offer our clients advantageous rates for advertising.
Targeted partner mailshot program
Hays Taxation is in a privileged position of being able to mail both the Chartered and
Tax Institutes with bespoke mailshots on behalf of our clients. This has proved highly
effective both in profiling a firm in general and advertising a specific position to the
senior profession market place.
On-line solutions
Our own website, hays.com/taxation, through its volume, quality and range of added
value services, has proved highly successful in attracting senior tax professionals to
our business. In addition, we use many of the other leading job boards in conjunction
with our own, in order to provide clients with a tailor made package of on-line solutions.
Additional support to your business
• Job profiling
• Legislative updates
• Assessment testing
• Recruitment seminars
• Executive salary benchmarking
• Designing competency based interview questions
• How to market your practice to prospective partners

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