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Welcome to matureaccountants where we match businesses that need
experienced accountants with candidates that can deliver.

please note: We welcome candidates of ALL Ages

So what do experienced candidates offer?

Many of them were around in the last Recession and know what it’s like!
They are often available at short notice and can hit the ground running.
They offer full time, part time and interim solutions.
They need minimum training and supervision.
They understand that CASH IS KING!
They are not on a career path and so are more likely to stay the course.

I set up Matureaccountants in 2005 having discovered at first hand that:

It can be tough if you fall off the corporate ladder, whatever your age and experience.
Being over 40 and out of work is NOT a good combination!

We welcome candidates of ALL Ages

I look forward to hearing from you.

Martin Lloyd-Penny FCA -

For non-accounting vacancies:

Mature Accountants Limited will not discriminate directly or indirectly, harass or victimise any person on the grounds of their age. We will encourage clients not to include any age criteria in job specifications and every attempt will be made to persuade clients to recruit on the basis of competence and skills and not age.

Join my mature accountants group on LinkedIn to develop your business network.

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The Apprentice

Have a look at our news/media page on mature accountants to see Martin's letter in Accountancy this month.

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Tips if you lose your job!

Have a look at our news page for some ideas which may be helpful, especially if you are thinking of getting off the payroll (assuming you can get back on one!) and starting your own business. I did and it was the best thing that could have happened.

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REC Membership

We are pleased to announce that the mature recruitment brands have all been accepted into the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) the professional body dedicated to representing the interests of the recruitment industry in Parliament, Whitehall and the EC.

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Dispatches C4 - Monday 9th Feb.

Guardian preview (2/2) - A documentary for Channel 4's Dispatches, to be broadcast next week provides chilling evidence of ageism. It details the weasel words being used by recruitment agencies and employers to reject older job applicants - "too experienced", "over-qualified" and even unlikely to fit in "culturally". Alternatively they simply ask for "dynamic" staff, and we all know what that means. In one undercover sequence, the programme takes 56-year-old chartered accountant, Martin Lloyd-Penny, and his daughter aged 25, who is still to qualify as an accountant, and follows their job-hunting experiment. Martin has 30 years' experience; she is by contrast a complete beginner. Yet, week after week, he finds it impossible even to get replies to his applications while she is eagerly pursued for positions, and even cold-called by eager employers. His humiliation and bemusement are awful to watch.

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Accountancy Age Letter 9th Jan

Click on the Media Centre and have a look at my rant which was published on 9th January

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