Career Opportunities for Chartered Secretary and Governance Professionals

Live Lesson Information

26/04/2021
450+ Attendees
06:00 - 06:46 (GMT -5)
Free
English

John Watkins

Director of Employability

John Watkins is a qualified Chartered Accountant who spent 15 years in a professional services firm as a business adviser, department head and running the learning and development directorate. He took up his current role as Director of Employability at the University of Law in the Summer of 2015. He has responsibility for supporting students as they consider their career options and navigate recruitment processes as well as ensuring that academic learning is complemented by enhancement of the skills demanded by employers for optimal performance in the workplace. John will be joined in this session by Katrin Repetskaja, International Student Recruitment Officer, and Rong Huang, Business Development Manager, representing the University of Law.

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About this live lesson

In this webinar, John Watkins and Kate Smith from The University of Law will talk about the career Route for Chartered Secretary and Chartered Governance Professional.

Key content

John Watkins and Kate Smith will go through the below topics raised frequently by international students.

What is the process of becoming a Chartered Secretary and Chartered Governance Professional for international students?
How can you best prepare yourself for this career route?
What are the main qualities that recruiters look for? How can you make yourself stand out?
When should you start thinking about pursuing a career as a Chartered Secretary – when do firms start looking?
How does LLM Corporate Governance GradCG from The University of Law help our students develop a broad skill set – corporate law, finance, governance, strategy and corporate secretarial practice, to prepare them to be a Governance Professional