Overview

Part of ACCA's Women's Network Panel series of "Women's Wednesday Webinars" supporting female members in their careers.

ACCA & City CV, the international award-winning career consultancy, are partnering to present a FREE one-hour webinar to help you create an attention-grabbing, key-word optimised and 100% complete LinkedIn profile which will help you stand out in the accounting and finance world. 

With over 610 million members worldwide LinkedIn is the premier professional networking site. An incredible 97% of recruiters and head-hunters use LinkedIn as their primary candidate source. So professionally you can’t afford not to be there. This programme will show you how to use this incredible networking tool to its full advantage including;

  • LinkedIn? The facts you need to know
  • How to develop your online brand for your sector
  • The ideal headline and summary - why every character counts
  • The five biggest LinkedIn mistakes to avoid
  • How to make your LinkedIn profile shine with the best accounting key words
  • The perfect upload
  • Building and managing your network
  • How to attract finance recruiters and the ‘right’ jobs
  • The most relevant LinkedIn groups for you - how to find them and make the most of them
  • Be a LinkedIn 'Subject Matter Expert' in your niche - blog, share, excite
  • Live Q&A session at the end.

This live online training session will be delivered by Victoria McLean, Founder and CEO of City CV. Victoria is a former Recruitment Manager for Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs, and former head-hunter.

Agenda

  • 12:30 - Presentation
  • 13:15 - Q&A session
  • 13:30 - Webinar end.

Speaker

Victoria McLean, CEO of City CV

Victoria McLean is the CEO of City CV, an international career consultancy firm specialising in banking and the financial services. Victoria established the company in 2008, following a successful career that included steering recruitment at two of the world’s largest investment banks, Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch. As a former Head of recruitment, she identified a gap in the market for high quality resume / CV writing, career development and interview skills training for financial services professionals. Since then, City CV has flourished and expanded to overseas markets, including the US, UK, Asia, Australasia, Europe and the Middle East, as well as top international business schools. 

An active member of Career Directors International, Victoria holds posts as ‘International Expert’ and ‘Banking and Finance Expert’. She has twenty years’ experience in resume writing, interview and career coaching, and recruitment, including creating and directing international corporate career development, higher education and outplacement programmes. 

As a strategic thinker, Victoria has an impeccable understanding of what employers are looking for, both in a CV and at interview. Her strength lies in her ability to empathise with clients, mitigate anxiety, and inject energy and positivity into their career. She supports them by eliciting their professional experience, competencies and achievements, and translating these into a winning format, both on paper and face-to-face.

Victoria regularly wins major international industry awards, including Best Executive Resume, Best Finance Resume, Best International Resume and Best New Graduate Resume in the industry ‘Oscars’ – the TORIs. Known as The CV Queen, as a career expert, Victoria is also regularly featured in leading media, including BBC Radio, Channel 4, The Guardian, The FT, iNews, Cosmopolitan, Huffington Post and eFinancial Careers.

Victoria is available to run workshops and webinars worldwide for small or large audiences, including with blue chip corporates, public sector organisations and in the higher education space, in addition to providing one-to-one or group coaching via Skype on resume development, interview success, LinkedIn development and usage, optimising your job search and any other career / job support coaching needs you may have.