Making a stand
13 September 2012
Always hungry for a challenge, Tara Ricks, MD of financial recruiter Joslin Rowe, talks about the frustrations of lobbying government ministers and countering negative preconceptions about the industry
Tara Ricks isn’t your average managing director. She may be only 35, but she has been in the top job at financial recruiter Joslin Rowe for two years. She greets everyone in the hallway by name, and flicks her hair as though she’s still the schoolgirl who took a summer job operating a Stop/Go sign on a roadwork site (“I got a great tan, and a lot of wolf-whistles”)....