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There is now an official website for Joe Murphy and Building a Career in Compliance and Ethics. You can visit it here.Expect a banner link to the site to appear prominently on this blog later today (replacing two other banner links above all posts). The link will also be added to the 'Working for Integrity Links' section in the sidebar.In related news, this will be the final post on this blog.

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We've just heard from a site dealing in jobs and careers that they've chosen to link to our blog. Check them out at:SearchJobsCareers.Com - International, Overseas & World Wide Jobs and Careers - International Jobs and Careers. Free employment site free corporate job site and career tools from Search Jobs Careers Recruiting corporate career site service, including free resume search, free job

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Still don't have a copy of the book?Here's another small excerpt, this time from a list included in the books.From Chapter 1 of both books:Potential Compliance Risk Areas· Antitrust/competition law· Conflicts of interest· Consumer protection/advertising· Document management/retention· Employment discrimination/labor· Environmental· Government investigations/dealings· Harassment· International·

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Today, more article news, as JobWeb has posted an article by Joshua Leet. The article is titled "Do I Have to Sacrifice my Values to Succeed in Business" and it offers advice and information about Compliance and Ethics to college students.The article is currently accessible at the top of the Career Library page or by clicking here.This article joins last week's at SmartPros in helping to promote

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Well, it's March, and that means that Building a Career is now available for immediate order at both SCCE and Amazon!Further, while it was discounted for pre-order at Amazon, it is now listed at its regular price of $29.95, so unless you're using an Amazon gift certificate, we suggest ordering directly from the publisher SCCE.There should be a more extensive web page up for the book soon. We'll

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These excerpts are taken from our interview of Rodney Smith, a former in-house environmental, health, safety and ethics analyst.I would say a nice chunk of my time is done for training. I do business law and ethics training, though not comprehensively; I just get into a few of the topics, including Harassment Prevention, Foreign Corrupt Practices, Copyright Compliance, and Environmental Law. The

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These excerpts are taken from our interview of Joseph Murphy, an in-house compliance lawyer and outside advisor (and Working for Integrity co-author).In my role in CSLG I provide advice to companies. Much of this I can do from my office, on the phone or by e-mail. I may write or review draft company documents—codes, policy statements, audit reports—and provide the client with changes and ideas. I

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These excerpts are taken from our interview of Linda Lipps, a compliance officer who worked her way up into the field.I’ve been in the Ethics arena since 1996. I was in an HR role with a large privately-owned company in Houston, and one of the principal owners came to me and said, “Linda, we’re thinking about implementing a values-based ethics program, and I’d like for you to become involved and

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These excerpts are taken from our interview of Odell Guyton, a compliance officer for a large corporation.The time I spend is really involved with a lot of senior executives at the company both in promoting and educating, making them and other employees aware of what compliance means and what we do as a group. We are also being partners with them. When I say partners, I mean that in a broader

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These excerpts are taken from our interview of Richard Gruner, a law professor and author in compliance.I do a substantial amount of research and teaching in this area, particularly in the context of Continuing Education programs and scholarly research articles that I write about the standards governing compliance, as well as some discussion of techniques relevant to compliance programs…I do

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These excerpts are taken from our interview of Peter Wymard, who discussed the provision of online compliance training.My role, specifically, is in our sales group. I spend my time out there in the world, quite frankly as best I can trying to get our message out. Now, if you think about it...what we do is provide a service over the Internet. Typically owners of a program are the legal departments

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These excerpts are taken from our interview of George Wratney, a former corporate ombudsman.The function of the office rests on two pillars: one is neutrality; and one is confidentiality. The neutrality part is that we assure employees who call us or write us or otherwise contact us—knock on the door or trip us in the hall—that we don’t act as their agents, and we don’t act as agents for

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These excerpts are taken from our interview of Rebecca Walker, who we asked about providing compliance advice from a large law firm and also as a solo practitioner.My interest in the beginning really lay in white-collar, criminal defense work. Compliance, especially then, in the early 90s, was in many ways an adjunct to criminal work, and in some ways it still is. I say that because (especially

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These excerpts are taken from our interview of Christopher Vigale, who told us about being an outside compliance analyst.Essentially, I help figure out how to relay particular supplies by looking at who the client is and assessing the risk involved (particularly the risks the client will face). I examine how other similar companies perhaps dealt with the same issues, and whether or not these

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Building a Career in Compliance and Ethics is now available in SCCE’s store!The book also shows up on the main page.If you prefer to order by fax, there is a pdf available for download/viewing.The price for both SCCE members and non-members is $29.95.Spread the word, and order your copy here! (A new banner link will be added above all posts, joining the one for Amazon. This post will also be

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Our newest article promoting working in the field is now up at the SmartPros website.From their website:SmartPros Ltd. is an industry leader in the field of accredited professional education. Its products and services are primarily focused in the accredited professional areas of corporate accounting, financial management, public accounting, governmental and not-for-profit accounting, banking,

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This excerpt is taken from our interview of Winthrop Swenson, who we spoke to about working as an outside advisor, his experiences as Sentencing Commission Deputy General Counsel, and his work with a Big Four firmAt the Commission, the job was to write a series of laws that would apply when organizations (not just corporations but including corporations) are sentenced in federal court for crimes.

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These excerpts are taken from our interview of Roy Snell, a former compliance officer and CEO of HCCA & SCCE.As past president, and now CEO of this organization, I have talked to thousands of compliance officers, many of whom are frustrated, and they ask what they can do. The problem is they can’t facilitate change. My answer isn’t, “go study the law”; they already know the problem. The answer is

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These excerpts are taken from our interview of Daniel Roach, who we spoke to about working as a health care compliance officer.One particular area that is unique to health care is the whole issue of quality and medical necessity. That is an area where we do some work from a compliance perspective in the organization to make sure that we have effective peer review processes, and to make sure that

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These excerpts are taken from our interview of Arjun Rajaratnam, a compliance officer in the pharmaceutical industry.It’s a challenging job. It’s a very challenging job. We are expected to create huge change across vast organizations, from a relatively, less-than-high-profile position. We’re getting to have more and more profile and more access, but nevertheless, we’re not as powerful as we’d

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These excerpts are taken from our interview of William Prachar, a long time compliance officer and current outside advisor.To be effective, you have to understand the overall culture of the organization. The field certainly has HR elements, but it’s not HR, and I think it does it a disfavor to compare it to HR. Certainly, on the helpline side, most of the complaints and issues that come up are HR

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These excerpts are taken from our interview of Bob McCarter, an executive at a help line provider.This role gives me the opportunity to meet with clients that are making decisions about their compliance program. I’m giving them things to think about as they’re starting their compliance program or as they are fine-tuning or refining it. It’s important to have a good framework or a good structure

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The current issue of ComplianceWeek includes a guest column of interest.Working for Integrity interviewee Donna Boehme has written a piece entitled "Building a Compliance and Ethics Function" and in it she cites the original book. The mention comes in the "Institutional Protections" section.The article is available to ComplianceWeek subscribers here.

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This excerpt is taken from our interview of Stacy Martin who talked about working as a privacy officer.When it comes to privacy, things are not always black and white. Privacy means different things to different people and people should take privacy more seriously. I find it very gratifying to be involved in an open and balanced discussion with someone who is also passionate about privacy. At the

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These excerpts are taken from our interview of James Lukaszewski, an experienced outside crisis response advisor.There is an inherent resistance to admit being wrong, an inherent resistance to cave in to the do-gooders. There’s a wonderful article in Harvard Business Review, and it raises the question about where business schools went wrong. What the authors talk about in that article is that

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These excerpts are taken from our interview of John Lenzi, who we asked about working as an assistant compliance officer.Part of the responsibility of the compliance officer in our corporation is to make sure that we’re not the only ones responsible for compliance and integrity...we’ve built a team called the “Compliance Leadership Team” (it has representatives from each function) that is very

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These excerpts are taken from our interview of Alan Leibowitz, a former Director of Environmental, Safety and Health, ITT.What we’re going to find as we go forward as a profession is that it’s going to be less and less about being the policeman/the trainer, and more and more involvement in the strategic, operating and planning processes for these different organizations we work with. Ultimately,

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It's been a few days since the last excerpt (so as to leave the Amazon post prominent--now the new button link should take care of that). From this point on through the end of the month, expect an excerpt or two every day leading up to the publication of the new book. On the 28th, expect excerpts from the five interviews also included in Building a Career in Compliance and Ethics.These excerpts

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We just found out that Amazon.com already has the book up for pre-order! You can order a copy now, and it will be shipped on February 28th.As is often its way, Amazon.com has discounted the book, so rather than paying the full $29.95, you can pre-order the book now for just $19.77. That's a pretty significant discount (don't worry, we still get just as much from Amazon).We're very excited to see

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SCCE's 6th AnnualCompliance & Ethics Institute(From a February 5th email)September 9-11, 2007 | Sheraton Hotel, New OrleansCall for SpeakersProposals are due Friday, March 2, 2007SCCE is currently accepting proposals for breakout sessions at its 2007 annual institute.The SCCE annual institute is the primary education and networking event for professionals working in the compliance and ethics

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This excerpt is taken from our interview of Pat Gnazzo, who discussed his experiences and observations from working as a compliance officer.I think most companies are reluctant to take on somebody that’s an unknown and put them into a position of confidence immediately. Then that individual is taking in issues where the company potentially has problems, and they have to rely on that individual to

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This excerpt is taken from our interview of Paul Fiorelli, a professor and director of a business ethics center.At the center, we work with faculty to try to increase their familiarity with business ethics; we’re trying to encourage them to integrate business ethics across the business curriculum. In addition to that, we also provide an outreach service for the business community, running a

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This excerpt is taken from our interview of Donna Boehme, who we contacted to learn about her experiences working in compliance "overseas".As you are probably aware, the industry could be viewed as having its birth in issues arising out of the defense industry scandals of the 70’s. But as the industry has matured, meeting the overall seven elements of an effective compliance program has become

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SCCE's 6th AnnualCompliance & Ethics Institute(From a January 30th email)September 9 – 11, 2007 | Sheraton New Orleans Hotel Mark Your Calendars!The Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) announces that its 2007 Compliance and Ethics Institute will be held in New Orleans from September 9–11, 2007.Featuring nearly 40 breakout and general sessions, SCCE’s Compliance & Ethics

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These excerpts are taken from our interview of Margaret Bavuso, who shared her experiences as a compliance director and investigator and as an outside advisor.Compliance work is very interesting. The politics in every corporation impact the effectiveness of any compliance program, and very often the politics are based on personality. Everybody has to know what their own threshold is as to what

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These excerpts are taken from our interview of Scott Avelino, who we asked about providing compliance advice from a Big Four firm.The range of things that we’ve been involved with have been all over the map, anywhere from helping companies develop a simple code of conduct through to helping a company audit their compliance with that code of conduct worldwide and report the results publicly, and

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As we get closer to the release of the new book, we will post some small excerpts from the books to whet your appetite. Check back regularly. In the meantime...Interesting Ethics NewsThe University of California has taken a bold step and decided to have all its employees take an ethics course.Article AlertAs mentioned in a previous post, Joshua Leet wrote an article covering the SCCE's CCEP

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Below you will find the full cover (front and back) of our new book. Made up primarily of material from Working for Integrity: Finding the Perfect Job in the Rapidly Growing Compliance and Ethics Field, this book will appeal more to students, young professionals, and those with a casual interest in the field.So here you have it, Building a Career in Compliance and Ethics: Find your place in the

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SCCE 2007 Educational Opportunities(From a January 3rd email)SCCE 2007 Educational OpportunitiesRegister Now!SCCE is the premier provider of compliance and ethics educational events. Faculty is composed of industry experts from around the world who represent the corporate environment, academia, government, and the law. Attracting hundreds of compliance professionals each year, SCCE events

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Well, obviously the new book's front and back covers are not posted yet, and for good reason:We don't have the finalized images yet.Hopefully we will have them up this next week. If not, expect them sooner rather than later.In the mean time, we will be posting various compliance news and perhaps a few tidbits from the book(s).

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They are a bit later than planned, but there are now some more links in the sidebar scrollboxes, specifically sites listing compliance jobs, and some blogs we came across related to compliance and ethics. We don’t specifically recommend any of them, nor do we check them all regularly, but most of you will probably find something interesting.The new job listings sites are shown below (and will be

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As some of you may know, we have long planned a smaller, more mass market version of the book.We have just finished looking over the galley proofs of that book, and it goes to press next week.The new book, Building a Career in Compliance and Ethics: Find your place in the business world's hottest new field, will sell for only $29.95 and will be published next month, February 2007.It will of

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Things are quiet here again during the holidays, but next week we will be announcing some big news about the Working for Integrity project, so be sure to check back.Also expect those additional links as promised and some more tidbits from the book and field. We are also discussing beginning some interviews just for the blog with various people in the field. Those interviews would be like the ones

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Hot on the heels of the "Voices of Experience" article in ethikos, you will find another article in that publication from us.The article, written by Joshua Leet, presents information about SCCE's new Corporate Compliance and Ethics Professional (CCEP) certification program. The article doesn't mention Working for Integrity, but it does address one of our publisher's programs and compare it to

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As promised, we have begun to add links to the blog. In the sidebar, you will now find a new section called Compliance and Ethics Links. In this section, we have added a few links to compliance and ethics organizations, publications, and news sources. In the future, we will add other sections, such as compliance and ethics job postings, and compliance and ethics academic programs and

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Next week, we will be adding a significant number of links to the sidebar. These links will lead you to websites that provide various compliance resources and services.The update will be accompanied by a post explaining the link sections and highlighting the new links.In the meantime, if you are bored, live near Houston, and are not yet sick and tired of all things Enron, you may want to catch a

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2007 Compliance Academy(From a December 5th email)Dallas, TX | March 26–29, 2007Four-day basic intensive training with optional certification exam on the fifth dayCompliance education on USSC compliance guidelinesThe Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) Compliance Academy is a four-day intensive training program with the optional Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional (CCEP)

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Recently, the Conference Board of Canada released a white paper entitled The Evolving Role of the Ethics and Compliance Officer. According to a press release, the paper, in discussing the ethics and compliance function in North America, asserts "Chief ethics and compliance officers should ideally report directly to their company’s chief executive officer and have unfettered access to their

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Today, we heard that the newest issue of HR Magazine contains an article about compliance salaries. The article draws upon a Salary.com survey for the Ethics & Compliance Officer Association (ECOA). Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) members can view the article online and everyone else can find the article in the December 2006, (Vol. 51, No. 12 ) edition of HR magazine.You can also

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Recently, those of you subscribing to ethikos may have noticed an interesting article in the September/October 2006 issue."The Voices of Experience: Advice from the Field" (September/October 2006, Vol. 20, No. 2) is an article we put together demonstrating some of the insights contained in the interview chapter of the book.Below is a small excerpt.It's about more than money Although it has not

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Working for Integrity: Finding the Perfect Job in the Rapidly Growing Compliance and Ethics Field contained in the Privacy chapter (and Appendix 15D) several references to a salary survey of Privacy professionals conducted by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and the Ponemon Institute. The book contains references to the 1st joint salary survey in 2003, but the

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Among the offerings of the new Blogger in Beta is a label/category system. You will now be able to find posts within certain categories by clicking on the relevant label in the sidebar, or by coming back to this post and following a link below (this post will also be accessible via the link “About Labels” in the label section). As we add new resources and topics to the blog, we will update this

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Working for Integrity is an ongoing project. As part of the project, we gather materials that either are not included in the book, or have been found since its publication. Some of these materials are things like compliance and ethics job titles, position descriptions, and statistics about the field. Though these materials may eventually find their way into articles or updates of the book, we

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This blog is currently being updated to fit the new Blogger in Beta framework.Old elements are being adapted, and we will be adding new information and sections.Expect regular updates at least every Friday.

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SCCE’s 5th Annual Compliance Institute is just around the corner, taking place next month in Chicago, September 11-13th.For more information, visit SCCE’s web site, contact the organization by email or telephone (888) 277-4977.Early Bird Discount(From an August 21st email)Only 5 days left to receive the Early Bird $100 discount on your registration fee. Early Bird deadline end on August 25thTop

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From time to time on this blog, we will post news from SCCE about various conferences, web offerings, and publications. Most news will come directly from the basic emails SCCE sends to people on their mailing list. The inclusion of the news on this blog is not done at the behest of SCCE (our publisher), but rather by our own initiative. We recognize the benefits you can derive from these

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Our goal is to provide the gateway for those interested in entering our field, and to be the first resource for those interested in advancing their careers in this field.Those interested in a career in ethics and compliance should have a place to turn that is their own. Our book, Working for Integrity, and this blog are that resource. Please join us in this mission. We welcome your insights on

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Our book Working for Integrity: Finding the Perfect Job in the Rapidly Growing Compliance and Ethics Field is now available through the SCCE store.You can now order your own copy for $295.00 ($245.00 for SCCE members) and see for yourself how you can begin, or improve, your career in the compliance and ethics field!Click here to order!You can also find the link in the right-hand sidebar.Here is

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Hello, it’s Joshua Leet, and yes, we have been back from our trip to Vegas and the HCCA Compliance Institute for quite a while. In the month since the conference, we have been busy with various work projects (such as preparing a smaller version of the book for the more casual reader), so this is the first chance I have had to update this blog.We promise much more regular updates in the

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SCCE recently sent us this sneak peek of the book's cover. Yes, that is Joe Murphy himself. The badge he's wearing reads "Integrity".

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Next weekend, Joe Murphy and Josh Leet will be flying to Las Vegas for the Health Care Compliance Association's (HCCA) 10th Anniversary Compliance Institute where SCCE will for the first time present Working for Integrity: Finding the Perfect Job in the Rapidly Growing Compliance and Ethics Field.The conference is at Caesars Palace from April 23rd through 26th, and when we are not networking with

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COMPLIANCE AND ETHICS AS A CAREER?Some FAQ’s about an exciting career opportunity.Most people don’t have any idea that compliance and ethics is a possible career. Even many of those who do this work do not know the full scope of this field. Yet for those who enter now the opportunities are truly exciting.What is “compliance and ethics”?This is a new and rapidly developing field for those who work

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Our new book, Working for Integrity: Finding the Perfect Job in the Rapidly Growing Compliance and Ethics Field, has been a project Joe Murphy has long wanted to complete. In 2004, he approached Joshua Leet about helping with the book, and eighteen months later, a full draft was on its way to the editor at the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE).The book is a guide to those looking

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