You’d have to be crazy to turn up to your first job interview without having prepared your outfit, your CV and examples to showcase your experience. Yet so many students turn up to university careers fairs without putting in the time and energy to make the most of them, or leave their best first impression with graduate / internship program recruiters. In this article Graduate Recruiter Lou Zoanetti shares her top 5 tips to help you make the most out of the careers fairs you choose to attend this year. 

How often have you made judgments based on someone’s gender, track record, age, body size or cultural background? Frequently? Sometimes? Never? The truth is, we all make judgments, and we can often make them so quickly, we barely realise we’ve done so. It’s known as unconscious bias. What makes biases “bad” is a) a lack of awareness around how they influence your decisions, and b) how they impact others.

Great leaders matter - now more than ever. Leadership is never an easy task, but it has been even more challenging in recent years thanks to the huge changes and uncertainties brought by pandemics, economic instability and general decline in engagement.

We’re big believers in the power of human skills for personal and professional growth. In this article, we talk with Sean Steele, Founding Director of SeanSteele.com.au – a services business that provides support to Founders with $2m-$50m in turnover, scale their businesses about his personal and professional growth.

How to ace your first year in tertiary education? You have just finished Year 12. You did the best you could in your exams and are enjoying the summer break without a care in the world. Before you know it, it’s February (or wait, is it March already?!) and your first semester of University is just around the corner. What’s the best times for classes? How do I get there? What do I need for class? All these questions race past your mind and answers seem very hard to come by with this kind of thing. Well, we got your back. Here are 5 tips to crush uni life.

The prospect of a New Year can be both exciting and daunting. On the one hand, you have the opportunity to ‘start afresh’ with a positive mindset and a commitment to being your best. On the other, the very same situation can leave us feeling lost, directionless or flat because we’re either unsure about what to focus on, or overwhelmed by a never ending list of things we want to accomplish.

Feeling the need to dive into the world of human skills? Want to immerse yourself in inspiration to become more self aware? We have the answer - actually, we have eight answers! These talks, authors, podcasts and platforms will change the way you look at human skills and give you the oomph to build yours. Ready to watch, listen and learn?

How to Focus on Strengths to Build High Performance at Work: Enhance your performance by leveraging your strengths effectively.

Most Important Human Skills for the Future of Work: Discover the top human skills you need to thrive in the future workplace.

HR and business leaders need to focus on strengths, the combination of talent, skill and knowledge, in order to build high performing teams that excel. Bringing together the right mix of individuals whose strengths complement each other is key.