Firms are looking to recruit both junior and mid-level tax professionals, and an increasing
number of organisations feel that they are now able to justify new hires when employees leave, rather than attempting to cover tax responsibilities internally.
More worrisome is the ever - increasing
number of local and International Non-Governmental
Organisations (NGOs) in the state whose impacts are not
felt in the productive sector by facilitating job opportunities for the people.
In essence, it's about being professional and taking care, which means don't: agree to meet alone; allow over-familiarity; give out your personal mobile
number; meet informally outside working hours and away from your
organisation's premises (and certainly don't do so without getting formal approval); allow too frequent contact or over familiarity that may be acceptable with friends, colleagues and family but not from people with whom you only have a commercial relationship; discuss your private life, or social or recreational interests
of you or your partner; accept offers, discounts or other services or products by the client, customer or contractor; accept hospitality or gifts that you yourself wouldn't pay for from your own pocket; and don't do anything that makes you
feel uncomfortable, obligated or might be open to misinterpretation or might be difficult to explain to your manager, a journalist or an investigator.
A recent KPMG Forensic and Harris Interactive survey
of 200 global companies (November 2009) highlights the fact that a large
number of in - house counsel do not
feel equipped to find data and do not have any meaningful contact with their
organisation's IT department.