Oct. 30: Compliance Career Forum

Readers of Radical Compliance know that we love to talk about the compliance job market around here. So I’m delighted to announce that we are co-hosting a virtual Compliance Officer Career day on Oct. 30, to discuss what the job market looks like for compliance officers these days and how you can keep positioning yourselves smartly for career success.

We’re running this event with Compliance Week, and you can register to attend (it’s free) on the Compliance Week website. It’s going to be a series of webinars that examines both the job market for compliance professionals right now and the larger trends that are shaping what compliance professionals will need to be able to do to succeed in the future. 

Why do this at all? Because as readers of this blog already know, I’m a close follower of the career issues that compliance professionals face — and while I remain bullish on the overall future of compliance as a career profession, I also know that the actual process of getting a job these days is a deeply frustrating experience. 

That’s what we want to unpack with our Compliance Career Forum. 

Like, why is finding a job so hard today? Why are job candidates complaining that they apply to 1,000 openings with nary a response in sight; while at the same time hiring managers are complaining that they receive 1,000 applications and none of them are a good fit? (Just yesterday, for example, the sales rep for a compliance software vendor told me that clients are asking her whether she knows any good compliance officers looking for work.) 

So are AI and automation clogging the pipelines for candidate and company alike? If they are, what’s a feasible solution? What else is going haywire in the hiring process? 

That’s just one topic on the schedule. Others include… 

• How compliance officers can reframe their whole value proposition, from helping with regulatory compliance toward the much larger and more formidable challenge of risk management;
• How we can bring Gen Z professionals into the corporate compliance career path, since those young’uns will be the ones running compliance teams by 2040 but it’s not like we have a well-defined entry path into this career.
• How AI will or won’t change what compliance officers do, including the very real possibility that AI will leave you with more stuff to worry about even as it automates other stuff off your plate.

And we’ll start with a quick introduction from me, trying to answer a question that’s flummoxed me for more than 20 years: just how big is the corporate compliance profession, anyway? 

As I’ve said before, the job market for compliance officers these days is difficult, in the sense that finding a new job can be an insufferably exasperating task — but that’s not the same as saying the job market for compliance officers is bad, where the capabilities you bring to an organization have less and less value. 

The challenge is in understanding where the dysfunction in today’s job market comes from, and how to anticipate those hurdles so you can overcome them more easily.

That’s the vision, at least — but success will depend on having a good, vibrant conversation. So I hope you’ll register and I hope we’ll see you there.