Career stories, inspiration & guidance
Whether you’re looking for inspiration for your own career, after first person perspectives from our Endorsed Employer employees, or seeking DEI knowledge and guidance, we’ve got it all right here on our blog. You can use our search bar if you’re after something specific or simply explore our featured articles below.
Featured articles
What is a Chief Technologist (and how do you become one?)
Even as a toddler, Karen was fascinated by how aeroplanes take flight! Find out how she turned her lifelong passion for aeronautics into a dream career.
The myths and realities of being a woman in STEMM
Discover why STEMM fields are great career options for women. 8 successful women bust myths & offer tips for success in these male-dominated fields
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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Recruitment Experiences
At WORK180 we’re passionate about everyone having a positive recruitment experience, whether you get the job or not. We put a call out to our community asking for some of their best and worst recruitment experiences - the good, the bad and the ugly. Hopefully this...
Episode Eight: Managing your mental health at work
Kate Harrison is a counsellor who helps people navigate challenges and vulnerable periods of their lives. She started her career in learning and development, where she was exposed to behavioural science and became fascinated with the inner workings of peoples’...
Successfully Working Remotely
Our recent webinar on working remotely provided some helpful takeaways on how to set yourself up for success, finding your work rhythms, and how to maintain relationships with colleagues and managers. The webinar sold out in 40 minutes, so if you want to join others...
Leadership Development and Growing Through Challenge
Karley Whimp thought she was going to join the feds after completing Justice Studies, have a gun and run around like she was in Beverley Hills Cop, and says, “here I am in HR for a logistics company, and I absolutely love it.” We discussed taking on new challenges and...
6 ways to survive working remotely with your kids at home
Firstly, if you haven’t already, have a chat to your kids about why they are at home and potentially being home-schooled. Make sure you use language that is age appropriate. My children are 5, 9 and 11, so I have spoken to them all individually about what COVID-19 is...
Episode Seven: Women in STEM, the Girls’ Programming Network and Unconscious Bias
Renee Noble is the executive director of the Girls’ Programming Network, a software engineer at EdTech company Grok Learning, and was recently named in the Australia Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence. Having had no exposure to programming until stumbling...
Finding an employer with shared values
Ibbie Omideyi describes her first day at London North Eastern Railway (LNER) as arriving home. She shares why she “absolutely loves” her job as Community Engagement Manager and the importance of working for an organization with shared values. Ibbie has three core...
How to Have a Career Driven by Curiosity and Passion
Kate Bushell recently joined WORK180 as our Head of Sales. She’s passionate, energetic, believes “the world is your oyster” and is excited about using her 15 years’ sales experience to drive transformation supporting WORK180’s Endorsed Employers. Curiosity Caught the...
Why ‘Culture Add’ is the new ‘Culture Fit’
We have all heard it during the recruitment process - “we are looking for a culture fit with our company” - some of us may have even said it ourselves; but looking for a culture fit can be underpinned by unconscious bias, lack of innovation and cause your business to...