Category Archives: Personal & Work Values

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, Executive Career Management & Development | Comments (1)

Does Success Hinge Largely Upon Our Enjoyment In Trying?

January 12, 2010 – 10:53 pm

The article, “How Not Achieving Something Is the Key to Achieving It” by Peter Bregman recently published by HBR offers a terrific read. It provides a good dose of inspiration for us all as the year winds down and we focus our thoughts on our goals for 2010.
The article highlights a truth that many of [...]

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The Paradox of Choice in Life and Work

September 30, 2009 – 12:57 am

In his 20 minute TED presentation The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz provides us with an insightful look at how we are all inundated with too many choices in our modern lives and the different ways that we cope with these. Schwartz highlights the fact that with freedom brings choice, which is a good [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Executive Career Management & Development, Information of Interest | Leave a Comment

The DIY Job Search & Career Change Program

September 16, 2009 – 12:36 am

The Job Search and Career Change Program has been specifically designed as a Do It Yourself (DIY) program. Using the program’s series of five workbooks you will be guided step by step through the process for making a successful job or career change. Price: AU$39.60
Each of the workbooks includes 28-45 pages of information essential to assist [...]

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Job Enrichment Pioneer Herzberg’s Theory on What Makes for Job Satisfaction

September 2, 2009 – 2:27 am

In last week’s newsletter, there was a post about ‘What Do Most Employees Want From Their Employers?’ which was prompted by an article written by Jacqueline Maley in The Financial Review this week ‘Money not the key, worker survey finds’.  Today there is a lot of research available in regards to what motivates and engages employees. [...]

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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 [...]

By Karen Jenkin | Also posted in Directorships & Boards, Executive Career Management & Development, Personal Branding, Recruitment Agencies & Search Firms | Leave a Comment

A Great Careers Book ‘Now Discover Your Strengths’

June 22, 2009 – 1:49 am

The book ‘Now Discover Your Strengths’ by M.Buckingham and D.Clifton was recommended to me a year or so ago by a former colleague, a senior HR professional who found the book and the StrengthsFinder tool that the book is based upon to be highly valuable for herself. Given the respect that I hold for her, [...]

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