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.

Subscribe-HR now supported by Six Figures

June 25, 2010 – 9:26 am

Six Figures, the job site exclusively for $100K+ jobs and contracts, is pleased to announce it now supports job posting from Subscribe-HR‘s On-Demand, Next Gen e-Recruitment and e-HR Software-as-a-Service solutions. So if you’re a current client of Subscribe-HR, call or email us to easily post your jobs to our award-winning job site and connect with [...]

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The Importance of an Objective on Your Resume

April 7, 2010 – 2:24 pm

Guest article by Paul Stevens Managers, HR staff and employment consultants are all pressed for time. So when the day’s mail of resumes is reviewed, the style and presentation will directly affect whether your application is ignored, a reject sent in reply or an invitation to meet is offered. To compile an attention-retaining résumé is [...]

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Workplace Diversity Requirements for Australian Listed Companies Approaching

March 31, 2010 – 2:58 pm

We are only three months away from July 1, which is the anticipated implementation date for the ASX’s revised Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations that will require every listed company to disclose their diversity policy. In addition, listed companies will have to report on the number of women employees in the whole organisation, in senior [...]

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Selection of Outplacement Services

March 31, 2010 – 12:25 pm

Guest article written by Adrian Kelly of Outplacement Australia In most aspects of our lives we like to feel in control – to have some say over what happens to us, and to be able to participate in decisions regarding our lives. Never is this truer than when we are told our services are no [...]

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Access to Capable Career Transition Consultant Viewed as Lynchpin to Effective Outplacement

March 22, 2010 – 11:17 pm

Senior execs categorically reject commoditised programs In the strongest signal yet that senior executives are fed up with commoditised outplacement programs, the release of the 2010 Outplacement Industry Benchmark Report confirms that time-limited programs in which candidates are supplied with self-directed hard copy material are being rated as highly ineffective. “While senior executives are a [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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