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Employer checklist: Rolling out the right to disconnect
As of 26 August 2024, medium to large enterprises in Australia are required to...
Three quick questions with the company winning awards for pay equity
Closing the gender pay gap takes time, especially in traditionally...
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6 simple rules for a ‘lucky’ career change with TransGrid
Meredith Butler thinks she’s just lucky. She thinks her career success with TransGrid has been a series of escalating good fortunes – and maybe it has, but we think there’s way more to her success than mere luck. In three years, she’s progressed from a Finance...
Juggling transport and family – TfGM
Like many of us, Lee Gorman knows all too well the struggles of COVID lockdown, working and caring for small children. He and his wife – an NHS worker – share two daughters aged 2 and 5, and his employer, Transport for Greater Manchester TfGM, has been completely...
Lloyds Banking Group Returners Program Success Story
Jasmine Kohli loved her experience with Lloyds Banking Group Returners Program. She shares her journey from anxious Returner to thriving Relationship Manager. Why did you decide to apply for the Lloyds Banking Group Returners Program? After a 3-year career break, I...
7 ways you can identify if a company is genuinely committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
If you read our previous blog - Looking for your next job? 5 reasons why you should make diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) a requirement - then you might be asking yourself, how do I know if a company is genuinely committed to DEI? On the surface, a company may...
Diversity and Inclusion | Glossary of Key Terms & Acronyms
The words we use can empower or oppress, empathize or offend, reflect bias or challenge it. However, if we spend too long agonizing over every letter in every acronym, there’ll be no time left for action. We want to make it easy for everyone to talk freely about...
Experiencing accelerated learning in mining – BHP
When Katrina Sklavos shared with us the ins and outs of her role as an Engineering Project Manager at BHP, we imagined she had a decade of engineering experience behind her. We were surprised to learn she had only been at BHP for three years and started out as a...
Looking for your next job? 5 reasons why you should make diversity, equity, and inclusion a requirement.
Searching for a job can be difficult and time-consuming. So why is it that when we are searching for a new job do we spend so little time looking for the right employer? We can be so fixated on getting a new role that we forget to check if an employer is progressive...
Pursuing a leadership position? Get a promotion instead of leaving
Companies can't afford to lose women leaders. We spoke to 19 women thriving in leadership positions across a range of our Endorsed Employers. Endorsed Employers. By sharing their personal stories, they aim to encourage you to speak up and pursue your goals of...
Women in leadership: Companies you should join to make it to the top
Meet the organizations actively removing the barriers preventing women from being hired, promoted, or thriving in management positions. Their actionable plans go beyond ‘good intentions’, and you can explore them in this article. According to the Women in the...