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Prior to the GFC, Gen Ys wanted to move jobs regularly. But, is this still the case? Have their behaviours changed with less employment opportunities and less flexibility available? Most employers now realise, the skills shortage in Australia hasn’t gone away – it has just taken a brief holiday. Now we have our biggest challenge to harness the...

It’s easy to focus so strongly on the future that we keep working toward it without stopping to decide when the future actually starts for us. If we’re stuck in this rut, getting out of it typically means agreeing to focus, and then act, on ways to achieve a more well-rounded work-life balance for ourselves. It’s just too easy to keep old habits...

In our previous article, I talked about working and managing the Gen Y workforce. In this edition, we will discuss the Gen Xers, who currently make up approximately 40% of the Australian population. Whether at a family gathering or in the workplace, how do you manage intergenerational groups with conflicting work ethics, dissimilar values and...

One thing that is certain these days, change is a constant – sometimes within our control and often not. You may be at a stage in your life where many significant responsibilities are behind you. Perhaps you’ve paid down a mortgage and, if a parent, watched your children build lives and start careers of their own. At this stage, you may start to...

The Australian economy, particularly in retail, is going through a very tough period at present. Fortunately, we are not suffering as the US and Europe is, and we have a great opportunity to continue to supply our exports to China, which is helping to keep us buoyant in the mining and mineral sectors. However, Australia is not immune to what is...

What thoughts do you conjure up when you think about the term “mature workers”? Do you think ‘potential retirees’, ‘inefficient’, ‘old’, or even ‘past it’? Or.....do you think ‘experience’, ‘knowledge’, ‘wisdom’, ‘business savvy’, ‘reliability’? I know those of you reading this will certainly be thinking in the positive! As mature workers, you...

The most powerful method of enhancing effectiveness in your career development (as well as expanding your employer’s business) is networking. Particularly in the finance industry, we deal with more people than most other industries. Consider the following: Who is in your network? It includes colleagues, customers, professional associations within...

Much has been written on why Gen Y, Gen X and Boomers are different.  A lot can be put down to the environment in which Gen Y’s started their careers, having experienced 15 years of continuous, positive economic environment and only now experiencing their first recession over the last four years. Prior to the GFC, Gen Ys wanted to move jobs...

Twenty years ago, very few people had heard the term ‘outplacement’. Today, it is common terminology and practice in the workplace and often referred to as ‘career transition’. Many of us throughout our careers, may have been retrenched and found ourselves on a program – perhaps more than once? Job security is ancient history – even in the...