BarkerGilmore is honored to partner with Radical Compliance on what promises to be an important forum for compliance professionals. #compliance #radicalcompliance #barkergilmore
Radical Compliance loves to talk about career development issues for ethics and compliance professionals, so we’re delighted to announce today a special webinar that we’re hosting on April 16 in conjunction with recruitment firm BarkerGilmore LLC about how to have a long and successful career in this line of work. We hope you’ll join us. Register through the link at the bottom of this post. The webinar will be held on Wednesday, April 16, from 1 to 2:30 pm ET — yes, 90 minutes long, because there’s just so much to unpack about the skills a person needs to succeed as a compliance officer, the state of the job market today, and how to avoid missteps so that you don’t end up in a stalled-out career. Why are we doing this webinar at all? It grew out of a post I published last year debating whether compliance officers need to be lawyers to succeed in their jobs. My view (shared by most compliance officers, I believe) is that no, you don’t need a law degree for any practical reason; having one doesn’t convey any special powers or insight that a good CCO wouldn’t already have. BarkerGilmore, however, had published a salary survey finding that CCOs with law degrees did make considerably more money than their colleagues without law degrees. So clearly *some* people believe having a law degree helps your compliance career. Well, why? Are general counsels insisting on JDs simply because they had to get one, so therefore all other employees within a mile of the legal department need one too? Do compliance officers with law school training have some special gift for managing compliance issues? And even if law degrees do convey some special gift, is that likely to remain the case as corporations’ compliance challenges evolve more towards risk management? Those are just some of the questions we want to discuss on our webinar. We also want to explore… Just how big is the ethics and compliance profession, anyway? This has been a pet cause of mine for years, because nobody really knows. What skills do you need to be a successful compliance officer?? All things being equal, having a law degree will never hurt your career — but in the real world, all things are never equal; compliance professionals need to make choices about what to study, which skills to develop, and what practices to hone over years of experience. What experiences should you rack up for long-term career success? You can have superb skills to be a successful compliance officer, but if you don’t have the right experience along the way you could still end up in a career stall. And if you have suggestions for other issues we should explore, drop me a line at [email protected]. https://lnkd.in/e5PRu8j7 #compliance #finreg #FCPA #anticorruption