Career Advice - June 2015

  • Open Plan, Open War... on Hateful Habits

    Posted on Friday, June 26, 2015 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.comNo comments

    Working in an open plan office is not unlike sharing a house. Even with hot-desking, you'll most likely get to know your neighbours rather well, they may be physically closer than you would like and you learn to rub along with their charming peccadilloes. There are many beneficial features of communal working , not least the fact that humans are naturally social creatures, hard wired to promote ...

  • Compliance Jobs in Asia Pacific

    Posted on Wednesday, June 24, 2015 by CareersinAudit.comNo comments

    The future for compliance candidates across Asia Pacific is bright, according to data from Morgan McKinley which revealed its figures for Q1 of 2015 earlier this month. Despite a less than promising final quarter in 2014, the Asia Pacific Employment Monitor registered a 21% year-on-year rise in financial services roles. A rise reflected in the hiring trends for organisations across the Asia Pac ...

  • Moving Internationally with your Audit Career

    Posted on Tuesday, June 16, 2015 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.comNo comments

    Are you an auditor with plentiful audit experience and currently looking to move up to a top audit job internationally ? Are you struggling to get noticed, despite your many applications for international audit jobs and being a consistently high achiever? Firstly, let me reassure you from the outset that if you have worked for a long time at a public sector institution and you are looking to move ...

  • Audit Advantage: Presenting & Public Speaking.

    Posted on Tuesday, June 16, 2015 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.comNo comments

    Presenting & Public Speaking: proficient, painless and possibly, positively pleasurable. Part One. Presenting and public speaking perturb me, not. You'll find me one of the more vocal contributors at the table; I'll regularly chair and facilitate, present to board and I'm a habitual conference speaker . I think I'm probably relatively good at presenting and public speaking; I get asked back and ...

  • Obsessive email-checking: The Addiction and the Antidote

    Posted on Monday, June 15, 2015 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.comNo comments

    'Obsessive email-checking is making us a generation of idiots', Professor Sir Cary Cooper, writing in The Guardian, May 2015 I do it. My husband does it. As do my kids, my desk neighbour, my boss and almost all my clients. The scourge of the smart phone, widely proclaimed as work-life balance liberator, saviour of flexible working is, in fact, proving to be our captor rather than our redeemer as ...