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Loyalty or job hopping: What’s best for your career?
While longevity is still valued by many people, for the vast majority, it’s...
What every parent ought to know about a career in mining
You might think being a single mother would hold your career back in a...
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13 years and counting: Why Sara considers ESV her work family
"Sara Hansen first joined Energy Safe Victoria (ESV) in 2007. Back then, she was a 20-something keen to travel the world. Since then, she’s gotten married and started a family. She shares how ESV has supported her throughout every step of that journey and why it’s a...
Episode Ten: True Flexibility, the Juggle and Boundaries
Vivienne Partridge has worked in Advertising and marketing for 21 years and is now the Associate Director of Strategy and Planning at Optus. With a strong interest in continued education she’s attained a Masters degree, and four other industry and post grad...
Creating Value Through Culture
Simon Eid is the Group Vice President, Australia & New Zealand of Splunk, the world’s first Data-to-Everything Platform. He is inspiringly passionate about the culture they’ve created and believes “the reason we’ve succeeded is we live and breathe our culture.”...
Life hacks for working mums – by working mums
Being a working parent isn’t easy, at times you can feel overwhelmed and unsure of how you are going to manage it all. Now more than ever we need to throw our arms around each other (figuratively speaking of course, because you know, social distancing) and share some...
Seeing projects and people fulfil their potential
Dan Collins joined Calibre as a graduate engineer back in 2007. He’s now a principal engineer overseeing important urban development projects out of Brisbane. He shares the thrill of seeing his projects come to life, his passion for mentoring others and what’s kept...
Transferable Skills and Your Career
Transferable skills are the skills you build up throughout your employment, education and life that are non-technical and don’t belong to a particular industry or role. They can often be used in many ways in the workplace, and can be transferred as you move between...
Episode Nine: Remote Working During COVID-19 and Beyond
Kirsten Clacey studied clinical and neuro psychology and then spent time trying to find a career path she connected with before stumbled upon agile methodology and team coaching and realized she’d found her calling. She now works at Eyeo, who are trying to create fair...
Policies That Put You Ahead of the Pack
Aleta Nicoll was four months pregnant with her second child when she interviewed for a new role at Origin Energy. She was totally upfront about her pregnancy and her plans to return part time, an approach that feels pretty scary to many working parents. Origin was...
Pandemic Pivot: hiring remotely
As we all attempt to navigate the uncertainties of COVID-19, I am grateful that my business, WORK180, has already mastered three key things on the ‘pandemic pivot’ to-do list. I’m referring to hiring, on-boarding and managing teams whilst working remotely. WORK180 is...