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.
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...
Training is an often-misunderstood pillar of anti-money laundering (AML) programs. Some practitioners in the AML industry believe the requirement is for the training of all personnel in an organization when the requirement is actually “training for appropriate personnel.” A deeper dive into the regulatory requirement...
“Set peace of mind as your highest goal and organize your entire life around it.” Brian Tracy1 The term “Sunday Scaries,” sometimes referred to as the Sunday Blues, is believed to have been coined in or around 2009. There is some debate regarding who created...
Anti-financial crime (AFC) guru Sanjeev Menon, managing director of Madison Davis’s Legal and Compliance Practice Area, specializes in executive recruitment and provides staffing and workforce solutions to compliance and anti-financial crime (AFC) clients. Menon, who is an ASA Certified Staffing Professional and holds a Society...
The world of anti-money laundering (AML) provides for many careers at all levels across many industries, including banking, financial technology (fintech), gaming, lending, insurance and many others. Career levels could include entry-level analysts, experienced investigators, team leads, supervisors, managers and department heads. Because the field...
Many people have trouble understanding what employment recruiters are and what they do for a living. The irony is that what they do is actually simple—recruiters recruit. Some recruit nurses, while others recruit Java developers. Then there are those who recruit anti-money laundering (AML) and...
I thought I had finished writing articles about the effects of the pandemic on work and the employment market. I discussed working from home, returning to the office, the growth of fintech and the renaissance of digital banking and how the new normal would look....
