Careers
Is it your birthday? The best professional advice I have received
Every career has a basic, old-timers tip, handed from one generation to the next.
- by Richard Glover
Latest
Fancy looking after a five-tonne elephant?
Vet nurses are playing a key role in caring for our native wildlife – great and small.
- by Sue White
Opinion
Opinion
Let’s face it, meritocracy is a myth. The game is rigged.
Nepotism, luck and other factors that have nothing to do with talent are at play in most areas of the workforce.
- by Jim Bright
Don’t stand on the sidelines, have an eventful career
Forcing organisers to reimagine, rethink, and reinvent their business models, the pandemic has changed the events industry for good.
- by Sue White
How one Qld mum returned to the workforce – with a little help
After bringing up her children, 46-year-old Sairah Zubair Khan decided it was time to get back into the workforce, so she turned to a jobs academy for support.
- by Kate Kachor
I’m Gen Z. So what if I need three compliments a week?
Instead of dismissing younger workers as snowflakes, maybe you should be asking yourself whether you might be a more productive and happier employee if your workplace offered more validation.
- by Abbir Dib
Middle-aged. Middle-class. Underemployed
The white-collar club no one wants to join.
- by Stephanie Wood
Opinion
Opinion
Spoiler alert: Succession debunks everything you thought was true about ambition
When you’re intensely competitive – like Logan Roy – ambition is not quelled by achievement, and much must be forsaken to feed its demands.
- by Kerri Sackville
Inadequate school career education leaving students ‘lost’, ‘directionless’
Experts say school career education needs to be updated and included in the core curriculum to ensure students aren’t left feeling anxious about their future.
- by Nicole Precel
The new networking: the way to nab your dream job has changed
Tired of working a room and putting on a brave face? That’s old hat. Here’s what employers are looking for now.
- by Samantha Selinger-Morris
Opinion
AI
The robots coming for our jobs will also help fire us
AI has already infiltrated multiple parts of the human resources process. Now there’s a movement toward automating parts of so-called “workforce reduction”.
- by Beth Kowitt