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Career adaptability: A must for accountants

6th Mar 2013
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The chartered accountancy careers of the future are unlikely to be like those of the past, writes CABA head of development Wendy Saunders.  

There is every chance that they will last longer and, as a result, be more fragmented, include career breaks and involve periods of unemployment.

Actually coping with this paradigm shift will demand a completely new set of skills and abilities from accountants. Skills and abilities, that our research shows, most do not believe they currently possess.

What are these skills?

The core is to accept change and deal with it, as well as learning to proactively shape their future.

Accountants who entered their career on the basis that they would have a job for life are unlikely to have considered the need for such abilities. It is certainly not something that is likely to be covered in existing continuing personal development strategies.

To bridge this gap, CABA has launched a new series of one day training courses under the banner of “career adaptability”, the first of which are being held this week in London.

The first, “How to have the future you want,” is designed for all chartered accountants while two further courses, “Enhancing your performance” and “Managing your work-life balance,” are designed for managers and more advanced career development.

These courses are designed to benefit any chartered accountant who is undergoing unplanned changes in their work or personal life or wants to proactively make changes happen.

They are equally suitable for the ambitious accountant who wants to get on in their career and climb the managerial ladder, someone who is winding down and is unsure of how to make the transition to retirement or someone who has been made redundant and is unsure of how to move their life forward.

While these “soft” skills are unlikely to have been considered important by chartered accountants in the past, there is every indication that they will be essential in the future.

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