What our team say
The benefits provided to a team make a real difference - not just to their work, but to their life outside of it. To show what this looks like in practice, we asked our team to share their honest thoughts on the perks and support we offer. How do these benefits shape our workplace? How do they influence our culture? And most importantly, how do they help achieve a healthy work-life balance?
So here’s what they had to say, in their own words.
Life at Shorts
- Beginning your career
- Career Progression
- Career Opportunities
- Healthy life balance
- Enjoying our work
- Charity
- Team News
- Working at Shorts
Beginning your career
First steps
Our recruitment program includes many just starting out on their career journey in accountancy.
Whether joining through our graduate program, as an apprentice, or studying for higher qualifications, all of our trainees are fully supported throughout their training journey, and many stay with us after completing their studies.
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Career Progression
and development
For many, completing professional qualifications is only the beginning of their journey. Understanding how to achieve a promotion or climb the career ladder is the natural next step.
So, our Management Development Program is designed specifically for those individuals wanting to understand, plan and navigate their route to promotion.
Through a program of structured courses, mentoring, and training we continue to support our team throughout their development journey.
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Career Opportunities
Current vacancies
Interested in working at Shorts?
Visit our careers pages for details of our current vacancies.
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Healthy life balance
We look after our clients really well, but we also look after our team, because we know that their welfare and development are equally as important.
For everyone, personal time when we are not working is extremely valuable, and it is for that reason, that our zero overtime policy was created. Fundamentally, we do not expect any of our team to work more than their basic weekly hours.
Although this practice is quite unique within the accounting industry, we are proud to consistently see average overtime at less than one hour per employee per month.
Hybrid working, core hours, and zero overtime policies mean that our team manage their time better – both in and out of the office.
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Enjoying our work
Time and space to enjoy what we do
We don’t work to unrealistic timescales and never accept client work that we are unable to fulfil.
We aim to manage our employee levels to ensure that our team is always around 15% over capacity at any time, meaning that they should never feel overwhelmed or under undue pressure.
Consequently, our team have the appropriate time to focus on their work – time to think, time to analyse, and time to bounce off one another with ideas. Not only does this lead to improved job satisfaction, but also results in higher levels of client service.
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Charity
and volunteering
Our team regularly takes part in local and national fundraising events and all team members have the opportunity to take part in one volunteering day each year. There is an opportunity to get involved in
– sporting events, tournaments and challenges
– cake sales
– Christmas events
– Local charity collections
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Team News
What we've been up to
We work together, celebrate our successes together and always share our team news.
To find out more about what’s been happening recently, visit our LinkedIn page.
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Working at Shorts
and what it's really like
We have created an environment where our team feel supported, developed and happy.
We provide our team with a blend of interesting and challenging work with time to contribute their own ideas, concentrate on personal development whilst ensuring a healthy life balance, both in and out of work.
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