Career Development Seminar

Grand Hyatt | Dubai, UAE
24 September 2024

The ACT hosted a two-hour career development seminar at the Grand Hyatt in Dubai on 24 September, the first day of the ACT Middle East Treasury Summit.

Students and junior-level finance professionals joined us to learn skills to accelerate their careers, including combining their technical skills and qualifications with essential soft skills, like networking, negotiation, and personal branding, to stand out in today's competitive job market.

Are you interested in taking the next step in your treasury career? Learn more about our qualifications, training and eLearning courses on the ACT Learning website.

Is this course right for you?

This exclusive seminar is right for you if you are:

  • based in the UAE or the Middle East
  • a junior-level finance professional or student in a finance-related field
  • passionate about your personal and professional growth in the finance sector
  • looking to maximize your career potential and stand out in the competitive finance industry.

What will you learn?

The following essential topics to be covered:

  • crafting a compelling CV
  • optimising your LinkedIn profile
  • acing job interviews
  • building and maintaining a strong network
  • developing critical soft skills
  • mastering negotiation tactics.

Meet your trainer

Richard Turner

Richard has delivered over 35 years of global strategic finance leadership, covering multi-sector, multi-cultural and multi-sized organisations, including BT Group, GlaxoSmithKline and Mubadala. Since 2018, he dedicated his time to a second career to focus, to empower and inspire others in their ‘career success’ journey.

Richard has global sector experience spanning various industries and has worked in ‘C’ level positions in the Middle East, ASEAN regions, Europe, Africa, US and Japan.

As a Group CFO, Richard was passionate to establish finance as a key value-added strategic business partner to the board, chairman, CEO and peers to drive stakeholder value, which is both ethical and sustainable. Richard now dedicates his time to mentoring & coaching future leaders via Russell Reynolds Executive Search (accredited coach & mentor).

Learn more

This training course has now passed.

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