Audit & Governance Careers Advice - August 2015
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Posted on Thursday, August 27, 2015 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Many of us carry round a whole lot of clutter. I'm not talking handbags and briefcases here, rather the mental baggage that clutters up our minds and slows down our thinking processes . Tasks that we tell ourselves we should do, but we don't do. Conversations that we should have but we don't. Bad habits which we could break but we don't break. That's a whole lot of coulds and shoulds, consuming ...
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Posted on Friday, August 21, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The economic crisis caused a seismic shift in the global economy, and for the UK the transformation it has undergone since 2008 has also affected the types of jobs now occurring most frequently on the hiring agenda. From the Lehman Brothers and the downward spiral of its banking peers to the growth in technology across all areas of life, risk professionals have come to the fore as businesses have ...
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Posted on Wednesday, August 19, 2015 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Personal Brand: the auditor behind the numbers Does it sound a bit fluffy? Put the terms 'personal' and 'brand' together and you could be envisioning, an image-conscious metrosexual, style without the substance and not something that you'd necessarily associate with your professional life. We tend to think about brand in the context of commercial organisations and can't deny (or avoid) its ...
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Posted on Wednesday, August 19, 2015 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
When Fiction makes a better job of the truth¹ I read. Relentlessly, rapaciously and rapidly. I read everything and anything , wherever and whenever. Online, in dusty libraries, kindled or tree-hewn, I'm as passionate about literature as I am about my professional reading. Which is why it's rather perplexing that I don't often use fictional finds to inspire my business writing. Until now, that is. ...
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Posted on Tuesday, August 18, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Salaries not quite booming When the President of the United States makes reference to cyber threats as a national emergency, there may well be a feeling of precedence for those working in security – that they have the good fortune to be working in the right profession, at the right time. There is little doubt that most companies recognise it is not a question of if they will be attacked but a ...
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Posted on Friday, August 14, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The current market for external audit jobs in Asia Pacific is largely governed both by current regulations as well as by the qualities most yearned for by the Big 4 professional services firms. From the Singaporean government’s restrictions on foreign hires to an emphasis on higher standards of financial reporting across the external audit function; opportunities in the APAC region are dependent ...
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Posted on Friday, August 7, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In light of a series of publicised risk events within the banking and financial industry , the issue of operational risk management is hot on the agenda for CEOs, CROs, risk managers and those in both the internal and external audit functions. Thus the market for operational risk opportunities in the UK and Europe is extremely buoyant. From bank ATM collapses, as those which affected Greece in ...
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Posted on Thursday, August 6, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Stable government positive for recruitment Against expectations, post election, the UK not only has a government, but a stable one. This is a positive development for those looking to participate in the risk recruitment market. Another positive is a growing and increasingly profitable financial services sector. However, the cost of regulation is a major concern to the industry and one that has ...
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Posted on Thursday, August 6, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
S table government positive for recruitment At the start of 2015, we reported a confident recruitment market where 78% of internal audit departments anticipated they would need to recruit in 2015. Real earnings had finally started to turn positive and with low inflation and even a short spell of deflation, earnings in both the wider economy and internal auditing were starting to accelerate. ...
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Posted on Wednesday, August 5, 2015 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Here we are, full bodied summer. Facebook is alive with golden sands and jubilant families, the light is bright, the sun is (mostly) shining and the days are long enough for life after work. As nature luxuriates in its fertile peak, what time could be more sublime in the northern hemisphere? ( Oceania readers count your perennial blessings as you bask in your kinder mid winter!) Summertime, and ...
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Posted on Tuesday, August 4, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Stable government positive for recruitment Against expectations, post election the UK not only has a government, but a stable one. This is a positive development for those looking to participate in the compliance recruitment market. Another positive is a growing and increasingly profitable financial services sector. However, the cost of regulation is a major concern to the industry and one that ...
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Posted on Monday, August 3, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The interview process is arguably the most important stage of securing a job in audit . Once a candidate has sold him or herself on paper, it is important that the black and white transfers to real life otherwise it is unlikely that you are going to close the deal. More and more audit candidates, particularly graduates fresh from completing university, are approaching interviews with the wrong ...