Although the current financial crisis has caused a wave of redundancies amongst the city whiz kids, it has opened up a wealth of possibilities for compliance/risk officers. Companies now need to comply with tighter government regulations and monitor closely their transactions to ensure this situation does not recur. This is obviously good news for Company Secretaries.

Taxation is another area that is reasonably recession proof. Companies still need to manage tax risk, deal with VAT and comply with new government tax regulations.

Much has been said recently about the renewable energy sector and the government’s ambitious plans to create 1.2 million ‘green’ jobs by 2020 will require personnel across all disciplines including management consultancy.

This means that for our candidates at least, the future is looking reasonably good.

How do you rate your own personal job security? Would you consider a complete career change or move to a different sector if it guaranteed more job security? We’d love to hear your views…