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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.
Let us take a moment to recall this curious headline from March 2023: “Homeless Man Lands Job After Using ChatGPT for Resume and Interview Prep―A 45-year-old homeless man in Chicago used public library computers to access ChatGPT, which helped him craft a compelling resume and...
Have you heard of “popcorn brain”? It is a term used to describe the modern mind’s tendency to jump from one thought to another thought, like popcorn in a heated pan. The phenomenon is born in our digital age, where constant stimulation and multitasking are...
About two years ago, I wrote an article that made me feel vulnerable from a reputational standpoint. The topic was about fraudulent candidates, and I discussed how I had experienced and been scammed by candidates posing as anti-money laundering or compliance experts. I felt safe...
As I was in the midst of writing this article, I received not one but two thoughtful text messages from numbers that I did not recognize, as shown in Graphic 1. Graphic 1: Examples of Job Opportunity Fraud Source: Illustration created by Jon Estreich, CAMS-Audit,...
Has LinkedIn morphed from a business networking platform into a social media hub? This fast-growing tool, generating $15 billion a year,1 is often used in a manner similar to Twitter and Instagram. Brimming with motivational hashtags, carousel posts, emojis, sensationalized headlines and even gym selfies,...
You have heard it before: “No one really cares about resumes,” “My accomplishments speak for themselves” or my personal favorite: “Resumes are dead.” These sentiments echo through LinkedIn forums and networking events. The belief that resumes are merely administrative tasks has taken root in the...
Let us make work a “Blue Zone.” What is a Blue Zone, you ask? A Blue Zone is one of several areas around the world where people live longer and are happier on average than most other places on the planet. Simply put, people in...
Is the next big threat in recruitment lurking in the shadows of artificial intelligence (AI)? The rapid advancement of AI and natural language processing technologies has led to sophisticated chatbots, like the infamous OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard and Microsoft Edge’s Copilot. These technologies―still in their...
I was apprehensive about writing this piece because 2023 was the year of false prophets and incorrect predictions. Everyone from the armchair economists (like me) and professional macroeconomists with Ph.D.s could not read the tea leaves of 2023 with accuracy. We were going into a...
Our colleagues in the anti-money laundering (AML), compliance, regulatory and risk space work in a number of areas, including traditional finance, financial technology (fintech), the crypto and payments space as well as sports betting and gaming companies. One question that has been difficult to answer...
