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No trade? No worries. Jump-start your career in energy
According to Elizabeth, you don’t need a trade (or any industry experience) to succeed in energy. Here are her top tips to grow your career in the industry.
How Fulton Hogan is offering better mental health services for the construction industry
As cases of mental health in the construction sector increase, the company is committed to finding solutions both internally and industry-wide.
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Give a mother the right shoes and she can conquer the world! – Newcrest Mining
For Amanda West, an Underground Mine Geologist at Newcrest Mining, her happy place is anywhere she can wear her steel cap boots. “They make me feel tall, safe and happy.” More than that, putting them on means she’s doing the work she loves – Geology. But there was a...
Women building bridges in construction – Multiplex
Danielle Savio is a Senior Project Manager at Multiplex. She’s been with the company for 10 years, working her way through the ranks while being involved in several women’s industry associations and promoting women in the built environment through her own blog,...
Sandvik: Paving the way to disability confidence
Disability confident organizations play a leading role in changing people’s lives for the better. In creating a supportive, positive and inclusive environment for all, they proactively and positively influence workplace behavior and culture. Not to mention, they have...
How to engage tech customers with the human touch – Cenitex
Burnout. Motherhood. Tough conversations. Sometimes, balancing work and life can feel like a superhuman effort! But if there’s one thing Jordy Ughetti, Head of Customer Experience at Cenitex has realized, it’s that at the end of the day, we’re all human. And it’s the...
Gender & disability: Intersectional best practice in the workplace
According to the World Health Organization, there are over 1 billion people living with disabilities worldwide. Further, there is a significant skew in the rates of employment for people with disability, with 52.8% of men with disability being employed, while only...
Sales leadership at NetApp
Louise Breccione-Mattuci is a real foodie. She lives on a property of five acres outside of Melbourne where she can grow her own food, has a menagerie of animals – chickens, ducks, sheep, a dog – and makes salami annually with her Italian husband. She’s also the...
Finishing school? Want a career in the Defence Industry? Here’s how to get started
The Defence Industry Pathways Program, supported by Programmed and South Metropolitan TAFE, is an Australian Government initiative designed to create a pipeline of talent ready to join Australia’s booming shipbuilding and maritime defence industry. Successful...
Cybersecurity and development at Cisco
Corien Vermaak is engaging and energetic. She loved being active with her children and spends time cycling, golfing, swimming and surfing with her two boys. She brings her incredible energy to her role as Cybersecurity Specialist at Cisco, where they say she is a...
A customer focus with Okta
Hema Huchegowda is Okta’s first Customer Centric Engineer in Australia. She joined them after returning from the USA to Australia, and she’s been promoted and developed to have a fulfilling career next to the Aussie ocean! Customer centric engineering We can...