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Want an Awesome Career? Buy some Binoculars!
Simply put, for our careers to thrive, we need to find time to sit calmly on higher ground, pick up the binoculars and take a measured view of the entire landscape of our roles, capabilities and opportunities.
Working Successfully with Recruiters
8 Ways to Successfully Work with Recruiters.
Although you will have been contacted by recruiters from time to time, you may or may not have been interested in what they had on offer. Most people should have realized by now that recruiters are not only useful when you are changing jobs but also when you are perfectly happy within your position.
Over time, your relationships with good recruiters will prove mutually beneficial as long as you nurture them.
The Most Effective Strategies for Success
Is success about who you are or what you do?
The Most Effective Strategies for Success
Harvard Business Review continue their evaluation of strategies for success. This topic has been the most read content since the original article was released 2 years ago. This article follows up by looking at which strategies are most important.
Kiwi firms 16th most confident in world
Kiwi business confidence slipped in the last quarter but local firms are still more optimistic than companies across the Tasman, according to accountancy firm Grant Thornton’s international business report.
Kiwis go spring job hunting
Kiwis are taking the change in season as an opportunity to go job hunting, with activity outstripping the number of positions being advertised in September.
The latest data from recruitment website Seek.co.nz shows what while new job ads rose 0.1 per cent in the months, the deluge of applications led to a 1.9 per cent dip in the overall Seek Employment Index.
45% of Adult Workers Would Take Pay Cut to Get Flexibility
How important is workplace flexibility to working adults? It’s important enough that 45% would sacrifice a portion of their salary to get it, according to a Staffing Industry Analysts article citing a Moms Corps survey.
They are also willing to give up increasingly large percentages of their salaries to get that flexibility. This year, they said they would be willing to take an 8.6% pay cut.