Career stories, inspiration & guidance
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Featured articles
How to use career changes to your best advantage
Sheena Saigal has had a bit of an unconventional journey. Here’s how she used each career change in her life to slingshot her to new and interesting places.
A 7-minute guide to Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
7 mins to explain what an ERG is, their benefits, the best practice, & how to start one (or many) at your company. Can we do it? Let’s see. Start the clock!
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Supporting Staff on Parental Leave- a Perfect Example from Curtin University
Leaving an exciting job to take maternity leave is often one of the hardest career milestones to navigate for women. In addition to the emotional rollercoaster that takes over your life, dealing with looking after a newborn, worrying about work should be the last on...
Four tips for designing a Flexible, Challenging and Rewarding Career
While Nadia’s official job title is Principal Landscape Architect at AECOM, her love of variety also sees her working in the operations team. Nadia’s leading a team and managing challenging projects, while working a four-day week. Did we mention Nadia also has a two...
Five Tips on Proactively Enhancing Your Career
Jenny Edlington is a Senior Technical Officer at AECOM’s Perth office. Jenny’s journey in the industry began 14 years ago and has been completely self-driven. The result? A rewarding career, which fits in with Jenny’s family and outside interests. Here are her top...
Paving your own Career Path in Construction
With both her Uncle and grandfather running their own construction businesses, Laura Davidson had an interest in the industry from a very young age. Laura has worked on site for 10 years, transferring to the corporate environment and now back to on site, where Laura...
How to Develop your Personal Brand – as a Team!
We all have a Personal Brand, what is yours? Earlier in 2016, DCC* Jobs ran an event focusing on practical ways to build your Personal Brand. Despite the common misconception that personal branding is reserved for celebrities, we all have one…just ask Google! During...
Women, Speak Powerfully
Women, Stop Talking Yourself Down. We are women, hear us roar. Some days. Other days, well, you might hear us apologizing, second-guessing ourselves, prefacing what we want to say so as not to cause offense, and going out of our way not to step on toes, ruffle...
6 Steps for Transitioning to Working Flexibly After Maternity Leave
After working full time for 10 years, Sarah did not find the transition to working part-time after maternity leave easy. Sarah is a Senior Transport Planner at AECOM and her role involves leading multidisciplinary projects. Sarah shared with us the steps she took to...
WORK180 and Femeconomy Partner to Increase Women’s Workforce Participation
Australia’s number one jobsite for women, WORK180 and Australia’s shopping for equality website, Femeconomy have joined forces to accelerate Australia’s advancement towards gender equality by offering any Femeconomy approved brands a 10% discount on WORK180 services....
How I Handled a Workplace Bully and What I’d do Differently
Written by Gemma Lloyd This month is Human Rights Month* and a reminder of how we need to be protecting all human rights against violence, discrimination and abuse, regardless of where this occurs. I’ve shared many stories of the challenges faced working as a female...