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5 tips to get your career on track in rail (no matter your expertise)
Looking to grow a successful career? The rail industry might just be your ticket. Engineering leader Nafisah shares her tips for achieving career success.
5 in-demand careers for 2024 (and where to find them)
The job market is under immense flux and change now, here are the in-demand careers that will make waves in 2024.
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9 of the best podcasts for working mums
Podcasts are a multi-taskers dream come true. They’re a convenient and efficient way of learning and expanding your mind, whether you’re at work, commuting or doing the dishes. So when you’re in need of some words of wisdom, a download of the latest issues affecting...
Strategic Risk Taking in STEMM
Sinead Grant is a Manager in the Advanced Analytics Enablement Team at NAB which forms part of Technology and Operations. Sinead’s role is essentially providing all non-technical support for data scientists across the enterprise; everything from learning and...
Why Sales Aren’t Sleazy
Stephanie Iacono joined Tyro straight from university as an account manager in their health team and now 5 years later, she’s in a leadership position and well on her way, saying “don’t be afraid of the word sales.” Sales Aren’t Sleazy Tyro provide eftpos acquiring...
A guide to interviewing while pregnant
Pregnancy and your legal rights in the UK In accordance with the Equality Act 2010, if you’re pregnant, a prospective employer must treat you in exactly the same way as any other job applicant. They can’t reject you for a job on the grounds of being pregnant, likely...
pitt&sherry achieve the Flex Able Certification
pitt&sherry is a specialist engineering and environmental consulting firm that solve unique challenges in the transport, mining, civic & utilities, tourism & recreation, energy and industrial manufacturing sectors. Twenty years ago, working at...
A born sales leader: Meet Kerry Appathurai
Kerry Appathurai’s impressive 20-year career has taken her from Cadbury and Nestle to Parmalat and now Lion, where she’s Customer Sales Director – Endeavour Drinks Group. She shares her career journey, advice for women entering sales and why her favourite saying is...
Episode Four: Mentoring and being a woman in senior leadership
Tracey Edwards has more than 25 years’ experience working across IT businesses from small start ups to global organisations such as IBM, NAB and Telstra. She’s worked across IT operations, service delivery and project management, with a focus on cyber security for the...
Episode One: WORK180 is changing the working world
WORK180 is on a mission to empower every woman to choose a workplace where they can thrive. Co-founders Gemma Lloyd and Valeria Ignatieva started WORK180 after both experiencing discrimination in the tech industry. They wanted to flip the job seeking model on its...
Episode Two: The value of sabbaticals and maintaining boundaries
Samantha Reynolds has over 20 years’ experience in engineering and product management leadership roles for start ups, as well as global companies such as Microsoft, Amazon, DHL and Honeywell. She is a chocolatier, a cancer survivor, and a single mum to two sons. She...