Category Archives: Executive Job Searching

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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How to explain those gaps in your resume

February 17, 2010 – 12:23 am

Over the course of our employment the reality is that we are all going to have some gaps here and there in our resumes for a myriad of reasons. It could be due to travel, family, study, redundancy, a career break, ill-health, time off between employers and so on. In fact, it would be somewhat [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Executive Career Management & Development, Executive Talent Attraction & Retention, Interviewing, Recruitment, Recruitment Agencies & Search Firms, Six Figures News | Tagged , , , , | Comments (9)

At Masters / Post Grad Level is it an Internship or a Short Term Contract?

January 2, 2010 – 6:43 am

Last month I was delighted to be invited to speak at Melbourne Business School on a careers related topic, which was around preparation to secure an Internship. As a career coach I enjoy being around such dynamic and inspirational people, who have invested a lot of money and time, as well as making personal sacrifices [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Career Services & Advice, Executive Career Management & Development, Executive Career Services & Coaching, Information of Interest | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (2)

New Australian Government ‘Free Career Advice Hot Line’ for Job Seekers

December 15, 2009 – 8:11 am

The Australian Government has recently launched a new phone advice line available to Australian Job Seekers who have been affected by the global financial crisis.   Under the government’s Keep Australia Working strategy, the hotline is just one of a range of strategies aimed at helping to protect jobs and support businesses in the current economic climate.
The [...]

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As a job seeker when applying for jobs online what works best for you?

December 14, 2009 – 2:01 am

Michael Specht from inspecht produced the ‘Australian Corporate Career Website Report’, which is an interesting read for anyone who is involved in sourcing talent.  However, the report is also of relevance to anyone who is job seeking as it highlights many of the deficiencies with corporate careers sites. It covers off navigation, the job application [...]

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What Job Seekers Can Learn From Sales Professionals to Secure A Great Job

November 30, 2009 – 11:06 pm

Selling is tough – I can say this as I am all too familiar with it.  Selling requires a sales strategy, tenacity, discipline, a lot of activity, a thick skin and patience.   The sales cycle varies significantly dependent on the product or service you areselling however more often than not (aside from retail sales) it [...]

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