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  • What Skills Do You Need to Be a Successful Risk Professional?

    Risk professionals require a diverse skillset to do their job, shielding companies from the barrage of risks faced as part of doing business, but what skills are key to making a success of your career in risk?
  • What Qualifications Do You Need to Work in Compliance?

    As ever, there is a seemingly straightforward answer to the question of what qualifications are needed to work in Compliance, along with a less straightforward one. We look at what the best options are according to your career plans.
  • What Skills Do You Need to Work in ESG?

    People with a range of different backgrounds are attracted to this growing field. But whichever path you choose and whatever level you want to work at, there are some key skills and competencies you need to work in ESG.
  • Four Key Skillsets for Risk and Compliance Professionals in 2023

    What will be the talent hotspots in Risk and Compliance in 2023? We’ve taken a look at some of the trends of the last 12 months and identified four key skillsets for Risk and Compliance professionals that are likely to be in high demand over the coming year.
  • The Softer Side of Auditing

    Gone are the days of auditing being hard skills-driven, perpetuating the stereotype of the nerdy, possibly boring, left-brain dominated professional. Beyond entry level, to complete the rounded audit skillset and secure promotion, the fuel of audit career progress is dominated by the power of sof...
  • Soft Skills to Advance Your Compliance Career

    Expectations of compliance professionals grow and expand as they move up in seniority. Meeting these requires developing a wider range of more nuanced soft skills.
  • Data Analytics for Internal Auditors

    With the volume of data available to businesses increasing exponentially in recent years, we look at how data analytics help Internal Auditors to function on their most optimal setting.
  • What Qualifications Do You Need to Work in ESG?

    We share a basic guide to some of the expectations employers will have for certain ESG jobs depending on the area you intend to work in.
  • Soft Skills to Advance your Risk Career

    No matter what area of risk you work in, there are a number of soft skills you can foster to help build your career.
  • How to Build Rapport with your Audit Clients

    How do you go about building relationships and rapport with your clients in order to facilitate an effective and thorough audit?
  • How to Audit Yourself: Building on your Audit and People Skills

    To be a successful auditor there are skills you need that go beyond the technical expertise and necessary soft skills. Evaluate your performance with a self-audit!
  • Soft Skills to Advance your Data Analytics Career

    Working in data analytics undoubtedly demands that practitioners are technically skilled. However, it’s important not to discount the value of soft skills. So, which are the soft skills you need to set your data analytics career on the track to success?
  • What Skills do you Need to Work in Compliance?

    What are the skills a compliance professional needs to do their job effectively?
  • The Skills Analytics Professionals Need

    There are some tools and knowledge that span the entire analytics field. No matter the speciality, these are the skills that every analyst needs to know from the get-go.
  • Is Confidence Key for a Risk Manager’s Success?

    Confidence is vital in almost every position. From leadership roles to middle management and below, those with confidence all unite through their shared level of empowerment.
  • Three Skills that get an Analyst Hired

    In an Analytics job interview, it’s not just what you say, but how you say it that is important.
  • Giving and Receiving Feedback - Top Tips for Risk Managers

    Careers in Risk Management are essentially careers managing the unknown. Yet, when looking beyond continual risk hurdles, Risk Managers are tasked with another everyday challenge – managing.
  • 5 Fundamentals of External Auditing

    With these five fundamental skills in grasp, External Auditors are best prepared to succeed.
  • Why Storytelling is a Key Skill in Data Science

    Technical jargon and methodologies remain alien to most. So, when communication through storytelling and data science meet, Data Scientists are empowered to share their knowledge and findings with engaged audiences – a winning formula.
  • Top Skills Beyond the Technical in Data Analytics

    Whilst the qualifications and technical experience required of Data Analytics professionals is somewhat conclusive, those soft skills employers screen for can be undervalued by professionals. We look at the top five skills that Data Analysts need to succeed.