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CareerMums is Australia's leading careers centre and jobs board for working parents and parents returning to work. CareerMums also offers a range of HR and recruitment services to employers including our exclusive Working Parents Toolkit & Flexible Work Proposal Toolkit & Parental Leave Program Toolkit. For more information please visit http://www.careermums.com.au| Previous Next |  |
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Please don’t send in the clowns.
1:23pm Thursday 17 November 2011 - CareerMums By Sarah Wayland - social worker, project manager, mum, student, blogger and freelance writer.I was meandering through the online world the other day reading bits of this and bits of that and I noticed something - articles relating to mums tend to overuse the world juggling.Mums use it when talking [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Getting your wardrobe ready for work
8:05pm Wednesday 09 November 2011 - CareerMums By Nikki Parkinson, stylingyou.com.auGetting dressed for work used to be easy. If you weren’t issued with a uniform then most offices seemed to have an unwritten “uniform” of tailored pants or skirt with a shirt.Such a “uniform” made getting dressed each day less stressful but it was borin [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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The Art of Conver-Hasten
9:37am Thursday 03 November 2011 - CareerMums Who has had a meaningful conversation recently? I mean a real conversation.A conversation that doesn't include the words poo, wee or booga.A conversation that does not include some sort of logistical plan around after-school activities and getting home from work.Or a conversation that doesn't includ [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Motherhood, shift work and sanity – Yes, you can make it work!
1:47pm Friday 28 October 2011 - CareerMums By Holly Bicknell Good Golly Miss Holly!- www.goodhollyholly.com- Twitter.com/Holly_Homemaker- Facebook.com/goodgollymisshollydotcomIn my household, we have two preschoolers, a cat, a dog, a Mama and a Papa. Suffice to say, our house is bursting at the seams with toys, laughter and chaos!Earlier thi [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Please keep your germs to yourself
7:57pm Wednesday 19 October 2011 - CareerMums MultipleMum blogs about frugality, green living, parenting, and other musings at And then there were four (pilesofwashing.blogspot.com). She has four children, aged 6 and younger, including a set of boy/girl twins (Dew Drop and The Minx), and works outside of the home 3 days a week. There is never a [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Career Girl Me (updated....)
8:39pm Wednesday 12 October 2011 - CareerMums By Lucy MulvanyLucy is a mum of three primary aged children. She lives in Adelaide, with her lovely husband. In her life before children Lucy was a successful marketing project manager. She currently works part time from home on various freelance projects and has a blog called Diminishing Lucy. She [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Making time for friends
2:52pm Saturday 08 October 2011 - CareerMums Our guest blogger this week is Nicole Avery (aka Planning Queen). Nicole has five very unique and amazing children aged 12, 10, 7 (only girl!), 5 and two and lives in Melbourne. During July 2011, 671 women across Australia aged between 25-49 took part in a survey conducted by Ipsos Marketing. It loo [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Discount clothes shopping - Does it really save you money??
9:03pm Wednesday 05 October 2011 - CareerMums Joanne is a Personal Stylist and consultant Brand Manager for small business, based in Sydney with over 20 years experience in the fashion industry, Contact Joanne for more info on Joanne.becker@bigpond.comWith the global financial situation still very precarious, our position in Australia is at the [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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It’s about integration, not balance
3:35pm Saturday 01 October 2011 - CareerMums I was never particularly co-ordinated, but I just know that if I tried to work on my ‘work / life balance’ I would fall off. ‘Balancing’ motherhood and work suggests two things to me. One, that there is a perfect alignment that is ultimately achievable if only we tried harder. Two, that work [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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How (not) to have a sick day as a work at home mum
11:37am Thursday 22 September 2011 - CareerMums It's hard to have a day off when you're a work at home mum. I was out of sorts this morning. Tired, headachey, blah. I decided I'd call in sick, put my feet up and read a book. Of course.I got home to my quiet house after school drop-off. I readied myself for a sick day. Coffee at hand. Book at hand [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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