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ACCA launches new Career Navigator tool to boost career moves and skills development

Zoya Malik, 13 October 2021

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housands of UK accountants and finance professionals were able to change jobs in the last 12 months showing the resilience of finance careers during a global health and economic crisis.

A total of 5,908 (17.6%) of the 33,522 UK accountants who are qualified or studying for the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) qualification, and are listed on LinkedIn, changed their profile to show a new employer in the period.

The ACCA Careers website, which has hosted 2.8 million job adverts in the last year, and networking and jobs pioneer LinkedIn analysed the data of UK finance professionals with or studying the qualification to find the statistic.

The revealing jobs data from LinkedIn comes as ACCA launch their free new Career Navigator tool to help accountants and finance professionals take advantage of job opportunities in the resilient sector.