Following Redundancy, should Outplacement be the norm in Australia for valued employees? Redundancy is a fact of life for many Australians currently, and over the last few weeks I have spoken to a number of people in this situation. For some, the news comes as a huge shock and it takes time to move beyond the initial […]
Here’s some sage career advice for graduates: NO-ONE WANTS TO HIRE MEDIOCRE GRADUATES and here’s why… In China this June, 7.3 million new graduates will be leaving Universities and looking for their first ‘real’ job. Only 20% of them so far have either secured employment or committed to returning to full-time study, as reported by […]
‘Uptalk’ is something that many Australians, Kiwis and Americans do. It is the habit of putting a questioning inflection at the end of your sentence – as if you’re asking a question rather than stating something. But beware! A recent study by Pearson has shown that ‘uptalk’ can be detrimental for an individual. It has […]
Students incorporate self-reflection as part of their learning nowadays. It enables them to better understand, evaluate (both the subject & their performance), assess and provides an invaluable tool to self-regulate in the future. For those of us who are older, self-reflection is something that we have had to pick up along the way – either […]
The article in today’s AFR (pg 16) argues that while, of course, it is personally challenging to those working in the automotive sector who have just learnt that they will be loosing their job in the the near future, and that the record 6% unemployment rates announced this week are undesirable, considerable opportunities abound. In […]