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LEARNING RESOURCES
Find the right role
It’s easy to be lured into applying for a
role that comes with an impressive title
AICPA & CIMA ENGAGE Europe 2022 and fat salary, but a post that offers room
AICPA & CIMA ENGAGE Europe 2022 promises to be to develop and grow will prove a better
an unforgettable, invaluable, and one-of-a-kind career move, experts say.
opportunity. Instead of presuming job
descriptions are set in stone, take a
22–23 June, Birmingham, UK
big-picture view and think of how you
CONFERENCE can apply your skills and experience to a
role even if you don’t tick all the
Future Proof Your Career requirements.
Likewise, rather than just consider
Being able to develop your people, business, and leadership the next move up the ladder, finance
skills alongside your technical skills is critical for success. professionals should also look at smaller
Learn how to develop a focused path forward that leverages or sideways moves that give them the
new technical skills and your increasingly important human
intelligence. skills and experience to get to where
they want to be in the long run.
VIDEO “Getting a promotion is not always
about making the big one step, it’s also
Watch Your Language! Words That Are Sabotaging Your about appreciating the little
Career opportunities,” Herremans said.
In this session, participants will learn strong vocabulary that Live and learn
impacts their success as a leader and learn the obstacles
that prevent their progress and impact. Tempting as it may be to walk away if
you don’t get the promotion you’ve tried
VIDEO so hard for, it’s important to regroup,
analyse what went wrong, and move
forward. It’s vital to get a clear idea of
why you didn’t get the job, so always ask
interviewers for honest feedback. Maybe
encouraged your team or helped promotion,” Cox said. “Promotion is another candidate had more relevant
change mindsets to get a project over recognition of how your skills, experience, came across better in the
the finish line. capabilities, and influence are needed interview, or simply clicked with the
In a fast-changing landscape, it’s to develop a future successful interviewer.
increasingly important to highlight organisation.” Instead of taking rejection personally,
how you can think creatively to solve look for ways you can go the extra mile
the myriad problems businesses are Build your network to take on projects that will prime you
facing as they try to respond to the new The days when playing golf or for promotion down the track,
environment. socialising with the boss would open Herremans said.
“The worst thing you can do is have the door to promotion are being “Don’t think of going for a new
a cold conversation, turning up with all consigned to history, but building your opportunity or promotion as success or
your medals and saying, ‘This is what peer network is more important than failure,” she said. “Embrace the mindset
I’ve done … I deserve promotion.’ The ever, Cox and Herremans advised. of ‘This is an opportunity for me to grow
push system never works in Managing upwards is invariably … whether I get the job or not.’” ■
transparent and unpopular, so focus on
working closely with colleagues to help
them overcome hurdles and create Resources
value for the company.
As finance roles change, nurturing Visit the Global Career Hub from
relationships in other business areas AICPA & CIMA for help with finding a
can help accountants piece together a job or recruiting.
comprehensive picture of how their
company works, while building a
positive reputation. Sophie Hares is a freelance writer
There’s no reason working from based in Spain. To comment on this
home should be a disadvantage, so article or to suggest an idea for
reach out to people you want to build a another article, contact Drew Adamek
relationship with to organise a quick at Andrew.Adamek@aicpa-cima.com.
online introduction.

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