Author Archives: Karen Jenkin

I am a co-founder and Director of Six Figures, bringing over 15 years experience in telecoms and IT with companies such as Ericsson and Telstra.

My involvement with software development and IT has been predominantly with mobile applications, as well as web services, speech processing and AI software. I am passionate about future technology, business innovation and creativity.

Apart from holding a variety of positions in the corporate world, I have also run my own IT support business (Datasurance) and been involved in a couple of startups prior to Six Figures.

I hold a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), Bachelor of Science, Master of Engineering Science, and Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Executives and high income earners continue to strongly endorse job boards for finding jobs: Executive Monitor

March 7, 2010 – 10:57 pm

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 [...]

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When Saying Too Much in the Job Interview Works Against You

October 7, 2009 – 12:12 am

In job interviews:

Do you talk too much, too little or say just the right amount to land you the job?

Do you say the right things to the most appropriate people or shoot yourself in the foot?

What you say and who you share it with during the job interview process can work for or against you. [...]

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Productivity Commission Releases Discussion Draft on Executive Remuneration in Australia

September 30, 2009 – 3:29 am

The Productivity Commission has just released a Discussion Draft on Executive Remuneration in Australia, borne out of its public inquiry into the regulatory framework around remuneration of directors and executives of companies. This inquiry is one of the local reactions to worldwide calls for curbs on “episodes of excess and poor pay practices” for executives, [...]

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Goodbye Excessive Payouts for Executives

August 11, 2009 – 4:12 am

An interesting article in the Australian Financial Review has stated that Executive’s payouts might soon be limited to just one years pay in a bid to stop multimillion dollar handouts to underperforming executives.
According to the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) between 1990 and 2005 top CEO pay had ballooned from a multiple of 18 [...]

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Attracting a Brains Trust to Your Business

August 5, 2009 – 2:56 am

There is no doubt that companies large and small are currently facing significant challenges. In a 2008 global study by IBM “The Enterprise of the Future”, CEOs and business leaders reported that the rate of change organizations are experiencing is ever increasing and many are struggling to keep up. Some of the approaches being used [...]

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Six Figures Website Reviewed by Recruitment Extra – Our Reply

May 26, 2009 – 6:36 am

We were delighted to see that Recruitment Extra conducted a website review of SixFigures.com.au in their recent May 2009 edition. Bryn Griffiths from Fair Hill Advertising rated the website on eight criteria: The Pitch (first impression), Branding, Usability, Content, Stickiness, External Partners (use of space to introduce other offers), Finding It and an Overall score.
As [...]

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The Ethical Executive and Recruitment

April 15, 2009 – 1:28 am

I recently read the book “The Ethical Executive”, which was a summary of 45 psychological traps that humans can fall prey to and thus cause unethical behaviour. It seems very timely to be reading such a topic in the face of the global financial crisis and many of the behaviours that caused it. However, it [...]

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Clarifying Nielsen’s Australian Employment Website Rankings

March 10, 2009 – 11:30 pm

Whenever Nielsen’s “Top Employment Websites” list for Australia is published we are asked why we do not appear in the rankings, particularly as what we report to advertisers re: page impressions etc. are higher than some of the sites in the list.
As always, the devil is in the detail (or fine print in this case). [...]

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adlogic & Six Figures Integration Brings Savvy Hirers the Benefits of Niche Job Sites

February 25, 2009 – 5:32 am

To celebrate its new partnership and as a special introductory offer to adlogic advertisers, Six Figures is providing adlogic clients with the opportunity to post $100K+ package contracts and jobs for only $49 per job ad (normally $295) until the end of May 2009.
Six Figures, http://www.sixfiguresinternational.com is the Premium Job Site for Executives and Senior [...]

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Six Figures Website Upgrade

January 14, 2009 – 10:45 pm

Due to the increasing demand on our Six Figures job site over the last month or so, we’ve noticed the site getting a little sluggish at times.
So last night our servers were upgraded to allow us to improve the performance of the site, as well as enable us to introduce some exciting new features over [...]

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