Top Five Tips For Becoming A Corporate Secretary

Madeleine Cordes, Senior Manager at TMF Group, recently hosted a networking evening at ICSA for students interested in a company secretarial career. Expert guests shared tips from the frontline about how to get into a company secretarial role; here we present their top five.

1. Look for opportunities to learn about the profession
   Attending ICSA events and joining as an affiliate member is a good start. Read Governance + Compliance magazine (which I used to read at Bishopsgate library before starting my exams!) and seek out work experience to get a flavour of the work. Although it was pleasing that a large number of attendees had heard of the role and knew about ICSA, the membership body for company secretaries, it was apparent that there is still some misunderstanding of what the role entails. Make sure that you have the best possible understanding and that you speak to people at different stages in their careers who are actually doing the job.