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Hi All
As a fellow member of the ICB and the Glasgow Branch leader. I thought would try and help re the above comments .
I would just like to say I may be hard below but the fact you are all posting and want help. I know you will all succeed.
for example in Glasgow we are ruining workshops instead of meetings at the moment to cover all the members that are just starting out. It is about bridging the Gap from having the exams but having no experience of bookkeeping in the real world.
Quite a few of the more experienced members are helping me with the members starting out.
We are volunteers. We need members like yourselfs to come to the branch meetings and tell your branch leaders what you want. If members do not come then the branch leader does not know.
As a branch leader I tried everything to get more just qualified involved and hit a brick wall. I have to say as a branch leader it was a bit soul destroying. The goods news though my workshops have finally broken through.
Now the workshops have amazing feed back and we have 10 to 20 attending the workshops which are very techinical. No speakers- no clients- just us. So many are reporting their confidence and received the first clients.
We are still having other meetings but it is a starting point. So many more are going to Glasgow Inspire tour 2016 and I feel the workshops are part of the reason why.
As a long standing member of the ICB so many of long standing practices and senior members started in employed jobs for bookkeeping. For some of you if you are not feeling confident one of the best things you can do is take a job for example in Purchase Ledger - Sales Ledger- payroll. Their are loads of small firms looking to employ people. It may not be the rate of pay you want but the experience will go a long way and to be frank it is better then not getting any work. Even if it is part time you could then try to pick up some clients.
I maybe sounding hard. Going out to practice is hard work and if you believe in yourself like I did when I started out then you will make it work no matter what. Even if you have to take a part job . No it is not easy and sometimes some members just starting out fall on their feet. I sometimes think this destroys the moral of others when they read the success stories.
However I can tell you their are plenty or others who have made it through very successfully with extremely hard work and ups and downs. Many of them grew very slowly and are now some of the most successful practices in the ICB.
This is from experience. My first two years of business I barely made the tax free allowance. Since then I have been shortlisted for best practice 5 times and won small practice in 2014. I now have large offices.
I can honestly say having employed bookkeeping experience does make a difference even if is small.
But please contact your branch leader as all we want to do is to help you. No we cannot promise you work or job but we can give you the tools and confidence to help.
Edited at 16 Jan 2016 09:55 PM GMT
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