Category Archives: Baby Boomers/ Third Agers

Q&A with Paul Stevens – Covering the Hidden Job Market, Career Change & Other Words of Wisdom

July 1, 2011 – 10:06 am

During Careers Month for Executives & Professionals, Six Figures will be interviewing a series of experienced career professionals who have worked extensively over the years to assist Executives and Professionals in making successful job and career changes. Our first interview is with Paul Stevens, a career professional who was fundamental in the establishment of career [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Advancing Women's Careers, Career Events, Career Services & Advice, Executive Career Management & Development, Executive Career Services & Coaching, Executive Channel, Executive Job Searching, Executive Talent Attraction & Retention, Job Seeking & Social Media, Personal Branding, Resume Writing, Salary & Negotiation, Six Figures News | Leave a Comment

Are You In the Right Job? Take Our Simple Career Health Test

June 30, 2011 – 8:43 pm

No doubt you can recall being in emergency at a hospital for yourself or with a loved one. When you arrive they ask you how your pain is on a scale from 1 to 10, with 10 being the most intense level of pain. The same exercise can also be applied to both your job [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Advancing Women's Careers, Career Events, Career Services & Advice, Cover Letters, Directorships & Boards, Education, Employers & Social Media, Executive Career Management & Development, Executive Career Services & Coaching, Executive Channel, Executive Job Searching, Executive Talent Attraction & Retention, Expats, Human Resources, Information of Interest, Interesting Events, International Workers & Assignments, Interviewing, Interviews with HR & Recruitment Professionals, Job Boards & Job Hunting, Job Seeking & Social Media, Networking, Personal & Work Values, Personal Branding, Recruitment, Recruitment Agencies & Search Firms, Redundancy & Outplacement, Reference & Background Checks, Reputation Management, Resume Writing, Salary & Negotiation, Searching for the Six Figure Job, Six Figures News, Six Figures Press Releases, Six Figures Website Updates, Social Media & Technology, Surveys & Competitions, Training & Events, Website Updates | Leave a Comment

WHY GENDER INEQUALITY IN THE WORKPLACE STILL EXISTS

June 12, 2010 – 10:12 pm

“When it comes to bias, it seems that the desire to believe in a meritocracy is so powerful that until a person has experienced sufficient career-harming bias themselves they simply do not believe it exists” This article ‘How the Sex Bias Prevails’ by Shankar Vedantam in The Age on 15 May 2010 is a must [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Human Resources, Information of Interest, Recruitment, Recruitment Agencies & Search Firms | Comments (2)

Middle Aged Workers & Their Valuable Brains – Why Some Employers Are Missing Out

February 10, 2010 – 1:49 am

“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 [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Executive Career Management & Development, Executive Job Searching, Information of Interest, Recruitment | Comments (1)
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