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# Insights

Articles from TPI Search on Transfer Pricing, Tax and Tax Technology careers and hiring.

- [Managing Expectations Around Lateral Move Promotions](https://www.tpi-search.com/insights/managing-expectations-around-lateral-move-promotions.md) (2026-11-03): Moving up a grade with a lateral move? What Director-level interviews will expect you to show about winning work.
- [Office or home? The real question is where you're learning](https://www.tpi-search.com/insights/office-or-home-where-are-you-learning.md) (2026-11-01): JPMorgan and EY are sending the same signal: the office debate is really about how people learn, and the skills AI can't replicate.
- [Deloitte's single EMEA firm: what it means for careers](https://www.tpi-search.com/insights/deloitte-single-emea-firm-what-it-means-for-careers.md) (2026-11-01): Deloitte is combining its EMEA operations into one regional firm. What that could mean for promotion, mobility and the wider market.
- [Backing yourself when you change jobs](https://www.tpi-search.com/insights/backing-yourself-when-you-change-jobs.md) (2026-11-01): The hardest part of a career move is backing yourself when everyone has a view. The right move is usually the one that fits your values.
- [How to Approach a Technical Case Study Interview Stage](https://www.tpi-search.com/insights/how-to-approach-a-technical-case-study-interview.md) (2026-10-20): Case studies are now a common interview stage in Transfer Pricing. Three simple rules for getting yours "just right".
- [Take Charge Of Your Job Search...](https://www.tpi-search.com/insights/take-charge-of-your-job-search.md) (2025-10-29): We are now fast approaching the end of 2025 and, at TPI Search, we are getting more job applicants than ever.
- [The Tax Technology Revolution: Why The Big 4 Vs Top 20 Talent War Is Reshaping Career Opportunities](https://www.tpi-search.com/insights/taxtechnologyrevolutionbig4top10.md) (2025-07-28): The tax technology landscape is experiencing a seismic shift, and nowhere is this more evident than in the fierce competition for talent between the Big 4 and mid-tier accounting firms. As digital...
- [3 WAYS TO ATTRACT THE BEST TALENT IN TAX TRANSFORMATION IN 2025](https://www.tpi-search.com/insights/attractbesttalenttaxtransformation.md) (2025-01-20): The world of tax transformation is evolving rapidly, driven by globalisation, digitalisation, and regulatory complexity. For our clients, recruiting top talent in this space has never been more...
- [Overlooked For Partnership? The Key Factors That Many Directors Don’t See Coming.. (Leadership Insights: Week 3)](https://www.tpi-search.com/insights/overlooked-transfer-pricing-directorship.md) (2024-11-19): To every Director who’s heard “you’re almost ready” or “you’re on for Partnership next year” one too many times, I completely empathise. It’s almost impossible to mentally reset when you’re told that...
- [Overlooked For Director? Here's What You Might Be Missing... (Leadership Insights: Week 2)](https://www.tpi-search.com/insights/overlooked-director-transfer-pricing.md) (2024-11-12): To all the seasoned Senior Managers who've recently faced promotion disappointment this year - I see you! The step up to Director isn't just another rung on the ladder - it's often a fundamental...
- [Overlooked Promotions And How To Challenge Them - (Leadership Skills: Week 1)](https://www.tpi-search.com/insights/overlooked-promotions-transfer-pricing-assistant-manager.md) (2024-11-05): If you’re an experienced Assistant Manager who has been overlooked for promotion this year, I feel your pain! The Manager grade is your first rung on the managerial/leadership ladder and it’s an...
- [Welcome To 2024!](https://www.tpi-search.com/insights/welcome-to-2024.md) (2024-01-08): Happy New Year to all our LinkedIn followers and connections! 

No one can predict what is going to happen this year (or any year for that matter - unless you write for The Simpsons!) but you can set...
- [The Importance Of Telling The Hero’s[1] Story](https://www.tpi-search.com/insights/the-importance-of-telling-the-heros-story.md) (2023-11-20): Just as the pendulum has swung back in favor of the employers, it is ever more important for candidates looking for new opportunities to hone their narrative about why they are looking and why they...
- [The Importance Of Story Telling](https://www.tpi-search.com/insights/the-importance-of-storytelling.md) (2023-10-31): It appears the pendulum has swung back, and employers may be starting to feel that they have more leverage in terms of attracting new talent. However, overconfidence is never a good...
- [Can I Still Move As An Experienced Partner?](https://www.tpi-search.com/insights/canistillmoveasanexperiencedpartner.md) (2023-09-29): As we move through September and with 2024 looming - this post is all about experienced Partner moves and what the market could hold based on the conversations we’re having.

Despite the spluttering...
- [Tax Technology - Where Do We Start?!](https://www.tpi-search.com/insights/tax-technology-where-do-we-start.md) (2023-09-15): Where do we start? Where do I start?! ”Tax technology” can be a confusingly broad term, sounding deceptively simple for what is without a doubt, the most complex of areas that TPI Search recruits...
- [Career Burnout, Balance And What We Really Value](https://www.tpi-search.com/insights/career-burnout-and-what-we-really-value.md) (2023-01-06): The pace of the tax and legal profession has been relentless since 2020, with the global pandemic bringing unprecedented personal and professional challenges for us all. Transfer Pricing has always...
- [Is There No Getting Away From The Fact That There’s A Compliance Burden When It Comes To Transfer Pricing?](https://www.tpi-search.com/insights/compliance-overload-transfer-pricing.md) (2022-05-20): In TP-topia, some feel as though the ever increasing need for compliance is burdening companies, taking attention away from a business’ real focus - which is to make a tonne of cash (sorry, create...
- [Inflation And It’s Ever-increasing Transfer Pricing Implications](https://www.tpi-search.com/insights/transfer-pricing-implications-of-inflation.md) (2022-04-22): We’re all aware of the impact COVID-19 had on businesses, from supply chain disruptions to ever-increasing prices, but this now paired with Europe’s current crisis has only meant for more problems...
- [Transfer Pricing And Value Creation In M&A Deals](https://www.tpi-search.com/insights/transfer-pricing-value-creation-in-m-a-deals.md) (2022-02-17): Hands up if you knew there was nearly $6 trillion in M&A deal flow value in 2021?

Tax gurus have always played a role in M&A whether it be through assisting investors in protecting themselves...
- [Welcome To 2022!](https://www.tpi-search.com/insights/welcometo2022.md) (2022-01-07): Just enough time for some quick observations before the weekend.
- [Time](https://www.tpi-search.com/insights/time.md) (2021-09-23): It’s that time again. To talk about time.

We all have a finite amount of it each day. How well do we use it? How much do we waste?

Recruitment processes take time. Often much more time than...
- [Transfer Pricing, Job Changes And Why](https://www.tpi-search.com/insights/transfer-pricing-job-changes-why.md) (2021-05-17): It is fair to say that #TP and #InternationalTax have well and truly bounced back in 2021.
- [UK Visas: Part 3](https://www.tpi-search.com/insights/uk-visas-part-3.md) (2021-02-14): Under the UK’s new visa rules, "skilled" workers can only get a UK work visa if they earn 70 points.
- [UK Visas: Part 2](https://www.tpi-search.com/insights/uk-visas-part-2.md) (2021-02-14): Following on from our recent post, we can provide some additional information for those TP/tax professionals looking to work in the UK from next year (COVID-19/international travel restrictions...
- [UK Visas: Part 1](https://www.tpi-search.com/insights/uk-visas-part-1.md) (2021-02-14): From Jan 2021, a new immigration system will apply to non-UK Nationals wanting to come to the UK to work. The key change is that EU citizens wanting to live or work in the UK will now need to secure...
- [It’s A Fast Start To 2021 Already…](https://www.tpi-search.com/insights/it-s-a-fast-start-to-2021-already.md) (2021-02-10): Throughout 2020, we have done a lot of talking, listening, Zoom-ing, Teams-ing, collaborating, encouraging and supporting.
- [Operational Transfer Pricing Is Really A ‘thing’!](https://www.tpi-search.com/insights/operational-transfer-pricing-is-really-a-thing.md) (2021-02-05): I have said for quite a while that Operational Transfer Pricing will become a 'thing' and it won't require a traditional tax or TP skillset.
- [Welcome To 2021](https://www.tpi-search.com/insights/welcome-to-2021.md) (2021-01-14): I hope you all took the opportunity to get away from work and spend some quality time with family and friends, to the extent we were possibly allowed to depending on where you are.
