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The results are in! Discover the top ten in-demand jobs on WORK180 in 2024
As the year draws to a close, it’s the perfect time to reflect on the career...
How one school holiday program empowers workplaces for gender equality
How a game-changing school holiday program helped Service Stream take their gender equality efforts to the next level.
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How one woman found authentic work-life balance at Ericsson
When Ursula Duff arrived in Australia more than a decade ago, she wasn’t really thinking about a career in health and safety. Now a Health, Safety, and Environment Consultant at networking and telecommunications company, Ericsson, she can step back and acknowledge...
Mining, mentorship, and management as a FIFO leader
Sometimes, the most fulfilling careers start without a detailed roadmap. By setting your sights on a goal but remaining open to new possibilities, you might just find the journey more rewarding than you ever imagined. For Jennifer Dick, the destination was always...
Podcast episode: Why your public gender pay gap will be bigger in 2025
About the episode In this episode, we delve into upcoming changes to Australia's gender pay gap reporting, including new 2025 requirements for greater transparency, CEO salary disclosure, and median and average pay gap data. Discover how these updates will affect your...
Transparency in 2025: From Nice-to-Have to Non-Negotiable
Laughter and rejection. That was the initial reaction from many employers when we introduced the idea of sharing their employee benefits, policies, and efforts toward gender equity on the world’s first transparent career platform for women. Fortunately, a handful of...
Why Your Public Gender Pay Gap Will Be Bigger in 2025 (And What to Do About It)
Guidance for Australian employers with 100+ employees If you’re responsible for gender pay gap reporting in your business, you’re likely aware that the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) has introduced several significant changes for the 2024 reporting period. As...
Discover WORK180’s #1 company for career development
If you’re focused on building a successful career, you likely have the intrinsic motivation to continue learning, growing, and improving at work. Here’s where access to professional development and training opportunities at work matters. And it’s something this...
Stronger together: How Bendigo Bank prioritizes their teams, community & beyond
Banking isn’t always about profits. Bendigo Bank has made it their business to support First Nations people and serve local communities across Australia. Banks get a lot of bad press, but Bendigo Bank does it differently. Their Community Bank partnerships have...
From early passion to fulfilled tech career: How one leader found her way back to her purpose
We can all probably pinpoint a memory from our childhood or early school days of feeling a connection to a particular subject - that little spark that lets us know we’re onto a good thing. For Caroline Carabott, that spark was for tech drawing. Unfortunately, at the...
Trailblazing at CitiPower Powercor: Natalie Bakas on Career Futureproofing
Natalie Bakas started her career at CitiPower Powercor twenty years ago in their engineering graduate program. Now, as Manager of Urban Programs, she heads up the team responsible for designing and delivering electricity across Melbourne CBD and surrounds. “It’s very...