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It's all about attitude!

Where employees fail : 26% Coachability - Their inability to accept and implement feedback. 23% Emotional Intelligence - The inability to understand and manage their own emotions and accurately assess...

Employment outlook

The median starting salary for new graduates was $40,000, up $2,000 from the previous year. Employmenthas grown by 3.7% in the last year and unemployment is at 5%, the lowest point for thirty...

Graduate recruitment: successful and growing

The size of an organisation has an impact on the number of applications received and also on the calibre of the applicants. Of graduate employers in larger organisations, 855 rated the number of...

Olivier Jobs Index: Graduate jobs up again

Advertising and Media jobs were strong in November growing 11.93% seasonally adjusted for a yearly growth of 39.95%. For the Full Olivier Internet Job Index Report refer to the links.

Misperceptions of age

It is not appropriate to cutomise workplace strategies for different age groups. Effective leadership is about listening, building sound relationships and engaging people regardless of their...

The Gen Y imperative

While flat company structures improve team work and communication, employers have to think creatively to engage their employees effectively. Employees need to be given projects and tasks that develop...

Changing Lanes

The old predictable career path is a relic of earlier times. Modern knowledge-based work has lesto do with a specific skill or a professional qualification than with general talents that can transfer...

Slippery little suckers

Boomers were generally brought up in large families where they did not get what they wanted immediately, waiting their turn or until things were handed down. GenYs often come from small or blended...

Gen X and Gen Y: changes in working patterns

Boomers are likely to work far beyond the typical retirement age of 65, driven partly by the impending skills shortage and also because of lifestyle considerations and greater life...

Employer of Choice awards

Microsoft Australia has been named by the Australian Human Resources Institute as the 2005 Employer of Choice for organisations employing over 500 people. The winner for organisations employing fewer...