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Key takeaways from our employer think tank: Closing the gender pay gap
To help even more organizations build and benefit from a diverse, equitable,...
How would your employer support you through breast cancer?
Nynne was far from family, in a pandemic, and diagnosed with breast cancer. Compare her experience with how you think your employer would treat you.
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5 Professional Development Tips when Changing Industries
How do you successfully transition from one industry and occupation to another entirely new industry and job? A slightly daunting proposition. And one I faced approximately 18 months ago now. The problem was knowing where to start when I didn’t know what I didn’t...
Sensei – breaking out of the typical IT shell
Here at Sensei, we are firm believers in the idea of “Team”. Team is central to everything we do – in our working with customers, bringing new ideas and solutions to market, or just relaxing and having fun. So much so that even though we call our company “Sensei”, our...
How to Boost Your Child’s Self Confidence
Have you ever felt like you were not good enough? Felt ashamed about how you look, what others may think about you or felt the pressure of being judged? Unfortunately, the culture of shame or guilt has become ingrained in us, perpetuated by mass media and exposure to...
Leading To Inspire Strong Women
Congratulations to DCC* Endorsed Employer for Women Rabobank's marketing manager Genevieve McAulay, who was awarded a prestigious leadership award at the 2017 Queensland Rural, Remote and Regional Women’s Network (the Network) gala dinner. Genevieve won the Leadership...
Can You Job Share? This is How You Make it Happen.
Job Sharing is a hot topic. In a lot of industries job sharing is just part of daily practice, example roles include nursing staff, doctors, service technicians, technical support services, public transport drivers and many more. IT professionals don’t commonly share...
Why do We Seek Out Difference Instead of Similarity?
I was recently the guest speaker for a Women in industry event where I spoke about strategic decision making and the key questions that boards and executives need to ask when developing the strategy for their companies. The audience was primarily women but there were...
How to juggle sick kids and your job
It’s Monday morning and you’re ready for a big week. Favorite dress is on, dinners are sorted, you even have a date night planned for Thursday. You settle into your Monday routine with a meeting, coffee break and emails. Then the phone rings, and of course it’s...
We Analysed How Women Engaged with 130 Best Employer Brands. Here’s What We Learned.
Why is it that some employers achieve gender balance through recruitment practices incredibly quickly while others take a lot longer? Of course, the industry sector and employer reputation plays a part however, after analyzing tens of thousands of job advertisements,...
Women: Time to back yourself more & doubt yourself less
I must tell you - I love being a woman! And I have long felt blessed to have been born in a time when women have so many opportunities and choices that even my own mother never had. Yet of all the barriers women still face, one of the biggest is a lack of...