Chao came to see Jane at Community Works in October 2023 with her son Alan aged three. She had recently moved into a Harbour flat, and Alan had secured a part-time nursery place. Chao was volunteering as an Accounts Assistant for a charity and studying independently for professional accountancy exams with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).<\/p>\n
She had previously worked in a finance role in an accountancy firm in China, as well as running her own export company for a year. Jane provided Chao with some feedback on her CV and job search guidance. Jane also sent over suitable jobs, especially in the public and voluntary sector.<\/p>\n
Together they went through a few applications where the form was very detailed, or it wasn\u2019t clear what was required. Chao was clearly very driven, bright and would be an asset to a company, she just needed someone to give her a chance.<\/p>\n
In December 2024, Jane reached out to a contact, Jonathan Brigain, to ask more about getting into accountancy. He mentioned his company Accountancy Scotland would likely be recruiting a Junior Accountant. Jonathan and Chao were introduced, and he offered her a four day a week job working from home as a
\nTrainee Accountant.<\/p>\n
Chao said: \u201cWhen I came to see you I had no idea how to get started with looking for a job. I had just moved home, was volunteering and studying and I needed help with my CV, job search and interview skills. I\u2019m now enjoying putting theoretical work into practice and learning about working on clients\u2019 accounts and
\nAccountancy Scotland\u2019s accounts.”<\/p>\n
To find out more about Community Works, email john.murray@harbour.scot or call 0131 553 8757.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How Community Works helped Chao find her new job.","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":9835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-works","category-homes"],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Harbour Homes","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9834"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9842,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9834\/revisions\/9842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}