Audit & Governance Careers Advice - February 2015

  • A Social Media Checklist for Audit Professionals

    Posted on Wednesday, February 18, 2015 by CareersinAudit.comNo comments

    Consider two statements: The first; that most of us have multiple social media accounts, whether Facebook, Twitter, Instagram… the list goes on. The second; that it is common practice for potential employers to do an online search to investigate potential job candidates. Now before you start deleting photos from last month’s work drinks, take a moment to think about an active social media can ...

  • Three Changes to Make to Your Audit Resume

    Posted on Wednesday, February 18, 2015 by CareersinAudit.comNo comments

    In this time of such a competitive labour market and faceless, virtual job applications, time-poor audit recruitment managers do not feel themselves obliged to studiously consider each résumé from the relentless torrent they receive for their job advertisements. You have a limited amount of time in which to make a good impression and this makes it essential that your CV is in the best shape it ...

  • The Seminar Series

    Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2015 by CareersinAudit.comNo comments

    Regular advertisers of audit jobs on CareersinAudit.com, Internal Audit Connections (IAC) and its partners involve themselves further in the audit community by running seminars throughout the year for senior members of the Audit and Risk community on various industry related themes. 'The Seminar Series' is designed to provide insights and discussion on relevant topics for senior audit and risk ...

  • Tech'iquette

    Posted on Monday, February 9, 2015 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.comNo comments

    These days I carry out a sizeable amount of my work remotely; meetings, client sessions, learning and development, they are all as likely to be facilitated by a device or a receiver than around a tangible table. And I'm speculating that if this is not the pattern of your own current workload, then it will, in time, become an emerging trend for you too. After all in this land of the cloud, awash ...

  • Liveable Brisbane – A Launchpad for International Finance Careers

    Posted on Thursday, February 5, 2015 by CareersinAudit.comNo comments

    We’ve all heard the saying; “Queensland: sunny one day, perfect the next” and Queensland’s capital city, Brisbane, is no exception. The subtropical stalwart of outdoors living is no stranger to backyard pools, river cruising, and council-provided public barbeques. But the sunny climate is not the only reason Brisbane was rated the #2 Most Liveable Australian city and 25th in the world in Monocle ...

  • Audit Advantage: Effectiveness

    Posted on Sunday, February 1, 2015 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.comNo comments

    Busy doing nothing? Are you effective or merely efficient? Long-standing readers of my articles and Audit Agony Aunt responses will have heard me wax-lyrical many-a-time about the difference between effectiveness and efficiency. I make no apology today for returning to my soap box. In this VUCA milieu of constant change, ever-accelerating pace and deepening complexity, it is more critical than ...