Audit & Governance Careers Advice - June 2016
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Posted on Thursday, June 30, 2016 by Simon Wright, CareersinAudit.com — No comments
We spoke with the Head of Internal Audit at the ACCA to ask his thoughts on the post-Brexit fallout and how this may affect those in the profession not just in the UK and Europe but across the world. Brexit and its repercussions are at the pinnacle of everyone’s consciousness across the UK and Europe as professionals on either side of the currently theoretical border find themselves in doubt over ...
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Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The relationship between Internal Audit and Cyber Security has grown ever closer in recent times as the former lays the groundwork for the latter by assessing the effectiveness of an organisation’s internal controls and educates the powers that be of the potential risks the business could face. Thus the line between the two disciplines has become somewhat blurred and the opportunities for career ...
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Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Don’t just turn up – The Audit Graduate’s Guide to Interview Success 8 basic things to remember at an Audit interview. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail‘. Benjamin Franklin Securing the job interview is just the start of your audit career. Now you need to take time and effort to be ready for the interview. Don’t think that if you just turn up you’ll being given the job. In today’s ...
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Posted on Monday, June 20, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
In an area as dynamic and fast-paced as cyber security it should come as no surprise that the skill set required for those needed to fill jobs in information security , risk analysis , IT risk and data analytics is constantly evolving. As technologies advance, the threats and types of attacks progress right along with them and so too the technological antidotes to thwart them; so what is the core ...
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Posted on Friday, June 10, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Acting as the policing equivalent for the cyber sphere , the job of a cyber security professional is essentially to apply their expertise to identify and prevent cyber-attacks. Being able to differentiate between a possible intrusion attempt and general network traffic is a key skill in cyber analytics, where the bulk of the job involves intensive analysis. Responsibilities of a Cyber Security ...
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Posted on Thursday, June 2, 2016 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
It is a truth universally acknowledged that an employee in possession of a resignation letter must be in want of a counter offer. A play on a well-thumbed Jane Austen quote concerning fortune and the decisions it thus elicits opens the metaphorical floor for debate around the subject of whether a counter offer should ever be accepted. The overwhelming response is “no”. In most cases, before ever ...