Category Archives: Searching for the Six Figure Job

Ten Career Options to Consider

August 10, 2010 – 8:45 am

Success in today’s world of work requires appropriate attitudes and thorough awareness of your employment environment. To these two, you need to add a self-honest but not too modest assessment of your skills, expertise (i.e. knowledge), interpersonal abilities and what factors make up job satisfaction for the uniqueness of you. As you journey through life [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Career Services & Advice, Executive Career Management & Development, Executive Job Searching, Personal & Work Values | Leave a Comment

Portfolio Careers – What do employers think? Is it a career breaker?

July 21, 2010 – 3:12 pm

Increasingly, I am coming across more and more professionals of various ages who have portfolio careers, which is essentially restructuring your work differently to that of a traditional one job with the one employer. Portfolio careers are not simply for those transitioning into retirement. Often they are now for those wanting to design a more [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Career Services & Advice, Executive Career Management & Development, Executive Career Services & Coaching, Information of Interest | Comments (4)

Up with the latest words and phrases? Don’t make the “authentic” faux pas!

May 19, 2010 – 3:50 pm

On The Creative Leadership Forum blog there is a ‘powerful’ post by Jason Cohen titled “Authentic” is dead. Jason suggests that there are many words and phrases we should be abolishing from our business conversations; in our marketing, selling, advertising etc. Why? Because unless we can back them up, they are somewhat meaningless. Especially when [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Career Services & Advice, Executive Job Searching, Executive Talent Attraction & Retention, Resume Writing | Leave a Comment

Resume Embellishments or Lies?

April 21, 2010 – 3:44 pm

Resume lies! Are they really lies or just embellishments and some clever marketing? It was a combination of some reading and DVD viewing that led to this post on the topic of resumes and whether we are in fact lying when we dress them up a bit to make them more interesting. I pose that [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Executive Job Searching, Recruitment, Resume Writing | Comments (3)

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 [...]

By Karen Jenkin | Also posted in Employers & Social Media, Executive Career Management & Development, Executive Job Searching, Executive Talent Attraction & Retention, Expats, Information of Interest, Job Boards & Job Hunting, Job Seeking & Social Media, Personal & Work Values, Personal Branding, Recruitment, Recruitment Agencies & Search Firms, Six Figures Press Releases, Social Media & Technology | Comments (1)

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 [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Book Reviews, Career Services & Advice, Executive Career Management & Development, Salary & Negotiation | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (1)

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. [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Career Events, Career Services & Advice, Executive Channel, Executive Job Searching, Executive Talent Attraction & Retention | Leave a Comment

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 [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Executive Job Searching, Executive Talent Attraction & Retention, Job Boards & Job Hunting, Job Seeking & Social Media | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Why flying solo is not always the best approach when changing jobs or careers (Part 1)

November 17, 2009 – 12:46 am

Most of us rate our jobs and careers as a very important part of our lives. This is understandable given it is our source of income, contributes to our sense of self and self worth and provides a major platform for our ongoing learning and development.  While it is us, and us alone who is [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Career Services & Advice, Executive Career Management & Development, Executive Job Searching, Job Boards & Job Hunting, Job Seeking & Social Media | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Age Discrimination as a Job Seeker – What Has Been Your Experience?

September 8, 2009 – 12:00 pm

There are unfortunately still all forms of discrimination that occur in the workforce including age discrimination. Mature age workers are set to make up the bulk of our workforce, yet age discrimination remains a real issue, particularly for job seekers in the current market.  I have not experienced age discrimination in my career as yet [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Executive Career Management & Development, Executive Channel, Executive Job Searching, Information of Interest | Tagged , , , | Comments (11)