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Important Notice to Six Figures Members & Advertisers
11:37am Sunday 22 January 2012 - Six Figures Dear Six Figures Community, We’re closing down Six Figures, including the website, effective immediately. Our blog will continue to be available for a short period. We’re extremely disappointed to have to close Six Figures but unfortunately, due to capital constraints, we’ve simply run out of options. We would like to thank all our supporters and [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Performance Reviews Need Extreme Makeover?
1:51pm Friday 02 December 2011 - Six Figures An article on Performance Reviews in HRMonthly this week caught my attention as it discussed a major shift in a large company’s approach to performance reviews. I had to respond and have precised as follows: “We are constantly working with businesses in the performance management field and have developed an approach and philosophy which has [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Are educational qualifications over rated?
6:52pm Tuesday 08 November 2011 - Six Figures “If I can somehow craft a livelihood out of virtually no qualifications or marketable skills, surely you can too.” Chris Guillebeau is a financially successful person who has a post on the site The Art of Non-Conformity about Qualifications. In it he explored how qualifications are somewhat overrated in our society. He does this by recounting [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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e-Book Review ’125 Twitter Job Search Tips’
6:08pm Tuesday 08 November 2011 - Six Figures Position Ignition is a leading career consultancy in the UK that produce content to assist job seekers and career changers via their website and blog. They have a variety of careers e-books, one of which is 125 Twitter Job Search Tips. It is a great resource for those that are either new to Twitter or [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Do You Have a Career Transition Object? It May Just Help Career Changers …
11:01am Wednesday 19 October 2011 - Six Figures This weekend I attended the Victorian Career Development Association of Australia mini conference. As with any event you attend you always walk away with new knowledge and insights, which is what makes getting up early on a Saturday bearable. Louise Millar-Hoffman - a Career Coach with an environmental focus – gave a powerful presentation that [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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‘Resilient People Program’ with John Sautelle and Anne Sutherland-Kelly
8:45pm Tuesday 18 October 2011 - Six Figures Why is resilience so important? “…more than education, more than experience, more than training, an individual’s level of resilience will determine who succeeds and who fails.” Diane Coutu, Senior Editor, Harvard Business Review, 2002 The program Two days of practical skills and tools you can immediately apply to increase resilience. This program draws on a [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Book Review – ‘Job Searching with Social Media (For Dummies)’
8:12pm Wednesday 12 October 2011 - Six Figures I am not normally someone who is drawn to the “For Dummies” book series. I suspect it is because I don’t find the look of the books all that appealing and perhaps subconsciously I don’t like to think of myself as a Dummy. However, when I was approached by the author Joshua Waldman of ‘Job [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Recruiters & Hiring Managers conducting reference checks behind your back – ethical or not?
2:54pm Monday 10 October 2011 - Six Figures While the internet has certainly made it easier for job seekers to find out information about companies and hiring managers, it has also made it easier for those doing the recruiting to research prospective talent via the multitude of social networking sites. The content shared here has generally been provided with the person/s consent. So, [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Recruitment Technology Conference – Special Deal for Six Figures Members & Clients
1:05pm Sunday 09 October 2011 - Six Figures Technology is constantly changing, and so is its role in recruitment. How does one make sense of a rapidly evolving recruitment technology landscape? Join us on 22 Nov in Sydney for the first Recruitment Technology Evaluation Convention (RECTEC). The event is the first of its kind in the region to focus solely on technology and [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Life as a white collar contractor keeps getting better
3:08pm Tuesday 27 September 2011 - Six Figures This is amongst the key findings of the third instalment of the IPro Index 2011; an annual research project conducted by Monash University and sponsored by Entity Solutions. White collar contractors (referred to as Independent Professionals or IPros by Entity Solutions) prove to be an overwhelmingly enthusiastic group, with more than four in five IPros [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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