Audit & Governance Careers Advice - June 2021
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Posted on Saturday, June 26, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
On January 31st 2020, the UK formally withdrew from the European Union (EU) – more than three-and-a-half years after the country first voted ‘Leave’ in the 2016 referendum. Less than a year later, the nation has also left the bloc’s single market and customs union. In more conventional times, Brexit would be the biggest story of the year in European governance circles. However, the arrival and ...
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Posted on Friday, June 25, 2021 by CareersinCyber.com — No comments
Published: 25 Jun 2021 The demand for cyber security skills around the world has gone through and shattered the roof. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in the U.S. estimates a cyber security job growth around 31% through 2029, that’s just over seven times faster than the national average job growth of 4%. The totality of unfilled cyber security positions in the U.S. is shooting up (expected to ...
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Posted on Thursday, June 24, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Whether you’re coming at an audit engagement from an internal audit or external audit perspective, your objective is to get the information you need in order to truly ascertain what is happening in the business area you’re auditing. Beyond the paperwork are the people working within the business and their insights are just as crucial to the audit process. So, how do you go about building that ...
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Posted on Wednesday, June 23, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Whether you’re just entering the compliance job market, or you’d consider yourself an industry veteran, taking personal responsibility for your compliance career should be a key priority. But what do we mean when we say that? You’ll find that the people who become successful come under the professional dictionary alongside terms like 'taking the initiative', 'being proactive', 'being self-aware'. ...
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Posted on Friday, June 18, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
The 2010s was the hottest decade since records began in 1880. It’s a trend which shows little sign of abating over the next ten years, with NASA calculating that 2020 was tied with 2016 as the warmest year ever recorded. In fact, the last seven years have also been the seven hottest in terms of global average temperatures. Climate change, fuelled by excessive greenhouse gas emissions, is ...
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Posted on Thursday, June 17, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Working in data analytics opens a great many doors but as with anything those opportunities will only materialise if you lay the right foundations. Whether you’ve come to an analytics career from an unrelated route or you’re slowly working your way up the proverbial analytics career ladder, there are two critical things you need to make it to base camp one, and those are the right skills and ...
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Posted on Wednesday, June 16, 2021 by the Careers In Group — No comments
At the Careers In Group we’ve thought a lot about the Covid-19 crisis and how this will impact employers. Talent attraction has changed considerably. Candidates are now flooding the market and filtering through irrelevant CVs is a time-consuming task that should be avoided. It is currently a critical time for the industry and we are here to ensure that you secure the very best talent in the most ...
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Posted on Tuesday, June 15, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
With age comes experience and until you’ve gotten to a certain point in your career you may not be fully aware of what should and could be expected of you. For risk professionals in their 30s, they are at an interesting point in their career where they’ve done a lot of the groundwork to establishing themselves within a risk management role and are most likely managing a team of people. So what ...
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Posted on Wednesday, June 9, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
You’ve got the basics down pat, the smart outfit (online interview or not), the company researched, and your own CV memorised, but for compliance jobs in particular, what are the things that will make you stand out in an interview? Of course, it will always depend on the kind of compliance role you’re interviewing for but there are some fundamental traits that will set you apart from the crowd. ...
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Posted on Thursday, June 3, 2021 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Quality assurance and audit are two very distinct functions, however when the two are married together they become a powerful tool to improve the quality, consistency, and reliability of a business’ operations. The intent of a quality assurance audit is to evaluate whether an organisation is adhering to the principles and requirements as prescribed by the overseeing regulatory body and, equally ...