Category Archives: Executive Career Management & Development

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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What Your Career Needs Most: Recess

March 3, 2010 – 1:33 am

If you want to get a boost of confidence, become more creative and have healthier relationships, then you need to spend more time playing and goofing off, psychologists say. Being playful provides a sense of “forgetting time, of feeling that your goals are clear, of getting clear and immediate feedback, not feeling bored or anxious,” [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Career Services & Advice, Personal & Work Values | Comments (1)

Achieving Your Career Goals and Attaining Work Life Balance

February 24, 2010 – 1:19 am

For many of us, our careers form a very important part of our lives and who we are. That is not to say that we don’t also seek out some balance – as they say, all work and no play can make for a rather dull person.
A recent UK survey of workers [...]

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What’s the Best Business &/or Career Advice You’ve Ever Received?

February 17, 2010 – 1:20 am

On one of the Linkedin groups I am member of there was a very active discussion around the topic of “What’s the best business advice you ever got?”, which is chalking up hundreds of terrific responses. Just a few of these gems include:

Think Big, Start Small, Scale Up.
Take risks and don’t be afraid to make [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Career Services & Advice, Information of Interest | Comments (1)

What do high income earners want from employers in 2010?

February 15, 2010 – 2:49 am

You will be surprised by the findings that are released in the Executive Career Monitor Report
The Executive Career Monitor Report offers organisations the most comprehensive insights into the behaviors, perceptions and intentions of high income professionals’ in Australia.
In late 2009 Six Figures the exclusive job site for high income earners in conjunction with [...]

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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 with [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Baby Boomers/ Third Agers, Executive Job Searching, Information of Interest, Recruitment | Comments (1)

Is a mobile phone still considered a perk of the job?

February 3, 2010 – 9:44 pm

When negotiating your remuneration package with a current or prospective employer you have to ask yourself if a mobile phone is still considered a perk or not. The same could also be said about the laptop really. Given they are tools of trade required to do our jobs and that for most of us we [...]

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Hiring on potential – does it exist or is it only about what you have done?

February 2, 2010 – 11:09 pm

I  have been reading the fantastic book by Charles Handy ‘The Age of Unreason’ over the summer holidays. I was hooked after I found it on my father’s bookshelf and I cannot seem to stop thinking about the myriad of fascinating points the book raises. One of those points is the fact that most intelligent [...]

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Why not to disclose your current salary at interviews

January 27, 2010 – 1:55 am

As 2010 kicks off, there will be a rapid increase in those moving jobs over the coming months – resulting in a lot of salary negotiations taking place across the country. When looking for new employment, inevitably you will be asked by recruitment agencies and employers alike for your salary information. Don’t fall into the [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Career Services & Advice, Interviewing, Recruitment, Recruitment Agencies & Search Firms, Salary & Negotiation | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (18)

How Motivating Are Salary Raises Really?

January 27, 2010 – 1:20 am

Salaries are clearly a very important part of work for job seekers, employers and employees alike. When we go to work, more often than not we are exchanging our time for a salary of a monetary value. Daniel Pink, who has authored various terrific books (including my personal favorite ‘A Whole New Mind’) has recently [...]

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