Posted on 05 April 2011. Tags: Career Management, Events, Offers
If you’ve ever wondered why you don’t get the job you want, why others get paid more than you or why your good work goes unnoticed… then you might need some Hot Tips for Career Chicks! Karen Adamides – Career Chick and author – is hosting a workshop in Sydney on 9th April and has offered 2 complimentary […]
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Posted on 17 March 2011. Tags: Career Management, Employers
Despite the many initiatives aimed at attracting more women to the engineering profession, a recent study has found that it’s the working conditions that are driving women away. Of the 30% of female U.S. engineering graduates who worked as engineers but later quit the field, nearly halfsaid they left because of working conditions, too much travel, lack of […]
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Posted on 02 March 2011. Tags: Career Management, Employers, Legally, Policies Employers Need to Know, Quotas, The Glass Ceiling, Women in Leadership, Women on boards
March 2, 2011: Despite the Federal Government’s moves to strengthen maternity leave and benefits, Australian families remain worried about the affordability of childcare, saying they will vote for the party who offer tax breaks, the latest poll shows. New research, commissioned by the online businesswomen’s network group sphinxx in a poll, found that children and careers fail […]
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Posted on 28 February 2011. Tags: Bias & stereotypes, Career Management, Heroes, Supporting women worldwide, The Glass Ceiling, women leaders
As first published in Geronimo Coaching Now: Once upon a time, in the bleak Welsh valleys, there was a little girl. Her name was Sylvia Ann… I grew up in the Welsh mining valleys. I was one of 6 girls children in a family that struggled a lot with unemployment. We didn’t have a refrigerator or […]
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Posted on 23 February 2011. Tags: Career Management, Mentoring
This week the very first edition of Smarter Business Ideas – Australia’s newest & biggest business magazine by circulation – landed on my desk. And it features a new section by Josephine Quilty called Me & My Mentor – which in my case really is about me and my mentee! It’s an article about how I’ve worked with Lara Solomon […]
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Posted on 10 February 2011. Tags: Career Management
When you’re meeting new people one of the first things you’ll talk about is what you do for a living (or the first thing, if you’re talking with a man!). When it comes to explaining my portfolio career of business consultant / company director / farmer / author and professional speaker – and how I […]
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