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Teleworking: It’s about time . . .
9:00am Thursday 15 December 2011 - Lifestyle Careers After considerable debate, the U.S. Congress has finally approved the Telework Enhancement Act of 2010. 1 The Bill, which has passed both the House and the Senate, is now awaiting President Obama’s signature. Once that happens, federal agencies will be required to develop a policy that allows eligible employees to do at least some portion [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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70,000 mums want to work but can’t access childcare: how is this impacting your business?
9:00am Wednesday 14 December 2011 - Lifestyle Careers News out today says that 70,000 Australian mums are locked out of the workforce solely because they cannot get affordable childcare. Boy this makes me cranky. And it’s not just because I was up half the night showering and changing Master Almost-3 who’s had a recurring gastro for 3 weeks now. This issue makes me [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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MBA leads to United Nations internship
8:47pm Tuesday 13 December 2011 - Lifestyle Careers Veronica Bainton’s drive to complete an MBA has led her to achieve her biggest career goal, an internship at the United Nations, New York headquarters. The 32 year old was named as one of three Edinburgh Business School (EBS) MBA scholarship recipients in 2010. “I received news of the scholarship with EBS at a time [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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PayCheck Plus helps business with payroll
9:00am Tuesday 13 December 2011 - Lifestyle Careers PayCheck Plus is our online application that helps you automatically calculate pay rates under modern awards including allowances, overtime and penalty rates. PayCheck Plus allows you to work out multiple pay rates for different staff, and even entire weekly shifts. It will automatically calculate the transitional provisions that may be in your modern award. Watch [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Don’t rain on my parade
1:58pm Monday 12 December 2011 - Lifestyle Careers We keep hearing talk about this “tropical summer” we’re having with the drastic change in weather and unusually high amount of rain for this time of year. I’ve noticed people feeling sick and run down, often blaming the (change in) weather as the catalyst. So is there truth to the weather being the root cause [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Don’t rain on my parade
9:00am Monday 12 December 2011 - Lifestyle Careers We keep hearing talk about this “tropical summer” we’re having with the drastic change in weather and unusually high amount of rain for this time of year. I’ve noticed people feeling sick and run down, often blaming the (change in) weather as the catalyst. So is there truth to the weather being the root cause [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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How Do I Get A Job When I Have No Relevant Experience?
9:00am Friday 09 December 2011 - Lifestyle Careers Dear Lifehacker, have no relevant experience in the field in which I want to work and am having a hard time constructing a coherent plan applying for jobs. How can I convince an employer to hire me? Sincerely, No Experience, No Job Dear No Experience, With one exception, I don’t think I’ve ever had relevant [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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How to Change Jobs
9:00am Thursday 08 December 2011 - Lifestyle Careers As the New Year approaches it might be the right time to evaluate what you want out of your career. A job that you have been longing for that motivates and gets you out of bed each morning is something worth aspiring to. To successfully transition into a desired career is a strategy within itself [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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21 Ways to Save Minutes Each Day
9:00am Wednesday 07 December 2011 - Lifestyle Careers I have a confession to make: I’m obsessed with time. On my phone I track every minute of the day and how it is being used. I can even show you a spreadsheet with months of data where my time up to the minute. For example, I can tell you that on average I sleep [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Christmas trading confusion looms – our guide to Christmas public holidays and trading hours 2011
9:00am Tuesday 06 December 2011 - Lifestyle Careers Figuring out Christmas trading hours is always a complicated task. Each state has its own rules, and with Christmas Day falling on a Sunday this year, substituted and additional public holidays make matters even worse. There has been particular confusion in Queensland due to a new State Government plan to give workers an extra public [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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