Simon Goldthorpe: Five tips for recruiting advisers in a remote-working world

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Working habits have changed over the past 18 months during the coronavirus pandemic. In this article, Simon Goldthorpe explores five ways advisers can better recruit in a world with more remote working

IFA firms across the UK rose to the challenge of home-working last year, with many now planning to let staff work remotely more frequently, and others choosing to scrap the office altogether. While the pros and cons of such arrangements have been widely debated, the fact remains that the people delivering the advice and doing the administration are essential to a company's success. Now and in the future many firms will have to overhaul their approach to recruitment to ensure it suits their ‘new normal'. This presents many potential challenges, but there are also clear pointers that...

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