Career Advice - November 2014
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Posted on Friday, November 14, 2014 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
For those of you too young to remember, it was Gordon Gekko in the 1987 film ‘Wall Street’ who gave us the classic line: ‘Lunch? Aw, you gotta be kidding. Lunch is for wimps’. Michael Douglas played the role of Gekko, the greedy corporate raider, who has, in retrospect, come to be seen as the archetype of 1980s excess. That was over quarter of a century ago, in a world so very different from ...
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Posted on Friday, November 14, 2014 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In today’s business world, the effective transfer of information and seamless function of business processes are crucial commodities, which is why a career in GRC can prove highly rewarding. One must understand the founding principles of GRC in order to embark on a successful career in the GRC industry. ‘GRC’ is a term that encompasses the Governance, Risk and Compliance policies a company has in ...
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Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2014 by Contact Singapore — No comments
As the ‘world’s easiest place to do business’ (World Bank’s Doing Business 2013 Report), Singapore has cemented herself as a strategic base for global advisory services leader PwC. Experts in the Asia Pacific, the company has been at the forefront of the region’s economic emergence, and continues to lead the market here. Witnessing the growth of the industry first–hand has been Australian expat ...
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Posted on Wednesday, November 5, 2014 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Launched in 2005 and leading the way ever since, CareersinAudit.com is an award winning job board and career resource for Internal Audit, External Audit, IT Audit, Risk, Compliance, Cyber Security, Corporate Governance, GRC, Advisory and Assurance professionals. On the site you will find the very latest audit jobs from the world’s top employers, you can keep up-to-date with auditing industry news ...
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Posted on Monday, November 3, 2014 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
'He screams at me, complains about me to my team and my peers, like a sport. This week he wanted to have a meeting with me and I had to sit in front of him and hear that 90% of the people working with me do not want to have anything more to do with me. If I ask him why I am still on board in a leading position, he just says 'I am not in a position to decide''. The paragraph above is an extract ...