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 How Seth Godin and Dr. Seuss Can Help Our Careers
12:39pm Wednesday 17 March 2010 - Six Figures The other week I was pleased to see an article by Fiona Smith in the Financial Review about Seth Godin’s latest book ‘Linchpin’. Seth Godin is nothing short of brilliant and has written a raft of books and has a brilliant active blog http://sethgodin.typepad.com/ that all offer terrific insights that are relevant for us all. Seth [...] | View Full Article  |
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Executives and high income earners continue to strongly endorse job boards for finding jobs: Executive Monitor
9:57am Monday 08 March 2010 - Six Figures The Executive Monitor report, a study to understand the work behaviour and intention of Executives in Australia, has been released today. Job boards continue to remain an important channel for executives to find a job. While only 11.6% of executives credited job boards for finding direct employment, the vast majority (67%) planned on using job boards [...] | View Full Article |
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What Your Career Needs Most: Recess
12:33pm Wednesday 03 March 2010 - Six Figures If you want to get a boost of confidence, become more creative and have healthier relationships, then you need to spend more time playing and goofing off, psychologists say. Being playful provides a sense of “forgetting time, of feeling that your goals are clear, of getting clear and immediate feedback, not feeling bored or anxious,” [...] | View Full Article |
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Achieving Your Career Goals and Attaining Work Life Balance
12:19pm Wednesday 24 February 2010 - Six Figures For many of us, our careers form a very important part of our lives and who we are. That is not to say that we don’t also seek out some balance – as they say, all work and no play can make for a rather dull person. A recent UK survey of workers [...] | View Full Article |
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What’s the Best Business &/or Career Advice You’ve Ever Received?
12:20pm Wednesday 17 February 2010 - Six Figures On one of the Linkedin groups I am member of there was a very active discussion around the topic of “What’s the best business advice you ever got?”, which is chalking up hundreds of terrific responses. Just a few of these gems include: Think Big, Start Small, Scale Up. Take risks and don’t be afraid to make [...] | View Full Article |
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How to explain those gaps in your resume
11:23am Wednesday 17 February 2010 - Six Figures Over the course of our employment the reality is that we are all going to have some gaps here and there in our resumes for a myriad of reasons. It could be due to travel, family, study, redundancy, a career break, ill-health, time off between employers and so on. In fact, it would be somewhat [...] | View Full Article |
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What do high income earners want from employers in 2010?
1:49pm Monday 15 February 2010 - Six Figures You will be surprised by the findings that are released in the Executive Career Monitor Report The Executive Career Monitor Report offers organisations the most comprehensive insights into the behaviors, perceptions and intentions of high income professionals’ in Australia. In late 2009 Six Figures the exclusive job site for high income earners in conjunction with [...] | View Full Article |
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Middle Aged Workers & Their Valuable Brains – Why Some Employers Are Missing Out
12:49pm Wednesday 10 February 2010 - Six Figures “Younger brains, predictably, are set up to focus on the negative and potential trouble. Older brains, studies show, often reach solutions faster, in part, because they focus on what can be done.” As a middle aged worker (deemed to be someone in the 40 – 60 year age bracket) the job search process can bring with [...] | View Full Article |
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Is a mobile phone still considered a perk of the job?
8:44am Thursday 04 February 2010 - Six Figures When negotiating your remuneration package with a current or prospective employer you have to ask yourself if a mobile phone is still considered a perk or not. The same could also be said about the laptop really. Given they are tools of trade required to do our jobs and that for most of us we [...] | View Full Article |
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Hiring on potential – does it exist or is it only about what you have done?
10:09am Wednesday 03 February 2010 - Six Figures I  have been reading the fantastic book by Charles Handy ‘The Age of Unreason’ over the summer holidays. I was hooked after I found it on my father’s bookshelf and I cannot seem to stop thinking about the myriad of fascinating points the book raises. One of those points is the fact that most intelligent [...] | View Full Article |
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