Kettering firm seeks 25% staff expansion amid pandemic

£10,000 on each trainee

Hannah Godfrey
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Kettering-based adviser firm Telford Mann Pensions & Investments is looking to expand staff at the business by nearly a quarter, despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Telford Mann is on the lookout for around seven people to add to its staff of 30. The Chartered firm is looking for trainee financial planners and paraplanners predominantly, but said it is always on the lookout for "quality administration team members" as well. Joint managing director Jilly Mann (pictured) said recruitment was a "constant battle" for the firm, suggesting there was a lack of quality candidates in the region, and so the firm preferred to train up their own people. "We calculated last year that we invest over £10,000 in each and every trainee who joins us and achieves C...

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