The award-winning Career Guidance column features articles on networking, self-employment, advancement, interviews, resume tips and more.
Our regular contributor is award-winning Sanjeev Menon, managing director at Madison Davis. If you would like to contribute to this column or have any topics you would like to suggest, email editor@acams.org.
The Great Recession affected all of our careers in different ways. With the right perspective, just keeping one’s job between 2007 and 2010 was a blessing, in and of itself. However, millions of people lost their jobs unexpectedly and were thrown into a saturated...
Good stories usually have five key elements: a likable protagonist that selflessly rises to the occasion; a malevolent antagonist seeking to oppress others; an impactful event that sets the characters in motion; a conflict that creates seemingly insurmountable challenges; and a climactic resolution so...
From belt keepers to gatekeepers, the transition from the public to the private sector may seem like a natural fit. However, how does law enforcement experience measure up when compared to the fierce competition in the anti-money laundering (AML) industry? Are the knowledge, skills and...
Have you ever thought about your legacy? Have you ever consciously ruminated and decided on how you want people to think of you? I am not alluding to everyone’s subconscious desire to be liked; I am touching on something greater and more significant. Although we...
I started my career as an agency recruiter in July 2008. I thought everything was going fine until two months later when Lehman Brothers went bankrupt and the U.S. officially joined the Great Recession.1 Honestly, I did not know what a recession was, but I...
As a senior leader within my organization, I am always thinking about ways to keep my practice and business in growth mode. After the Great Recession, I made it my mission to make my team’s business model as recession-proof as possible. However, after a few...
It is 2017 and as an active social media user, I keep my LinkedIn page updated and detailed, so I have recruiters calling me daily. But for some reason, networking events—the analog version of all social media—seems to leave me uncomfortable, nervous, awkward and shy....
For financial institutions around the world, attracting and retaining top talent in the compliance team is essential. As regulatory scrutiny has ramped up in recent years and the focus on preventing financial crime and terrorist financing has intensified, the need for banks to employ skilled...
We did not realize we had Fintech clients until we discovered the term only a couple of years ago. Granted, in hindsight, we had a vague understanding that they were different from our conventional financial services clients. We had to do more research and ask...