Where to start when you don’t know what career you want
Analysis
Analysis

Where to start when you don’t know what career you want

Feeling stuck about what occupation to pursue is not reserved to one part of life,but knowing what to do next can be difficult.

  • byCaterina Hrysomallis

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Would you change your name to get a job?
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Jobs

Would you change your name to get a job?

Research has shown it could be your name that is causing you to be placed in the reject pile. But why should applicants to do all the work?

  • byJim Bright
Water-cooler chat or work-life balance? What matters to young workers
Perspective
Flexible working

Water-cooler chat or work-life balance? What matters to young workers

Younger generations entering the workforce increasingly want flexible work arrangements. But they might not know what they’re missing.

  • byCourtney Kruk
High Country’s Sara Wiseman:‘It takes 20 years to become an actor’

High Country’s Sara Wiseman:‘It takes 20 years to become an actor’

From stunt woman to television regular,the New Zealand actor’s career is reaching new heights – but it wasn’t always that way.

  • byJane Rocca
Why career goals should be made to be abandoned
Opinion
Workplace

Why career goals should be made to be abandoned

Effective career plans or goals,are ones that can be regularly revised,ditched,or paused as circumstances dictate.

  • byJim Bright
What do young workers want? A pay rise,or a house
Opinion
Opinion

What do young workers want? A pay rise,or a house

Employers are obsessed with knowing what younger generations want. More often than not,it’s a pay rise.

  • byJim Bright
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Whatever happened to just doing your job well?
Opinion
Opinion

Whatever happened to just doing your job well?

Sucking up and networking can be very effective ways to get ahead,but there’s only one method that doesn’t require you to sell your soul.

  • byJim Bright
Why we shouldn’t be afraid to change our mind – in both careers and politics
Opinion
Opinion

Why we shouldn’t be afraid to change our mind – in both careers and politics

Most of the time we break our promises because circumstances have connived to make it foolhardy,ill-advised or even impossible to stick to our word.

  • byJim Bright
You don’t need more resilience. You need friends. And money
Opinion
Opinion

You don’t need more resilience. You need friends. And money

Modern influencers tend to glamourise resilience,but the reality is we need our support networks.

  • bySarah Green Carmichael
The great step sideways:The factors inspiring a midlife career switch

The great step sideways:The factors inspiring a midlife career switch

Former radio host Brigitte Duclos is one of a large number of Australians making a mid-life career change,as jobs mobility hits a 10-year high.

  • byWendy Tuohy
A career change,not a crisis:The Australians making a midlife switch

A career change,not a crisis:The Australians making a midlife switch

Meet the Olympian turned farmer,PR guru turned socialite and chemist turned gin distiller who changed careers in midlife and don’t regret it.

  • byAmber Schultz andMary Ward