If you’re thinking of joining a large organisation, or have just started a role, you probably feel like a small fish in a very big pond – an ocean, even.

You might be having lots of thoughts: How will you stand out and be heard? Will everything be slow and old-fashioned? What if you can’t remember anyone’s name?

You scored an interview, nailed every question (even the curly ones), and feel confident the job is in the bag. Then an email arrives, and you see the dreaded words: “We’re sorry to inform you…”Job rejection can feel like a punch in the gut.

Let’s be honest – having multiple job offers to choose from is a great problem to have. You worked hard in the application process, shined in the interviews, and finally got the recognition you deserve. But now you’re probably feeling the pressure to act fast and make a decision. The fear of regret is very real. So, how do you make a decision with confidence?

We spend a third of our waking hours at work. In fact, some of us spend more time with our workmates than we do with our own families and friends. If you do the maths, it amounts to a staggering 90,000 hours at work over our lifetime.

After two very long years, March 2022 saw the return to the office for many and a glimpse of the hybrid working model. While some employees were counting down the days until they could reconnect with colleagues IRL, others have been reluctant to give up the flexibility they’ve become accustomed to whilst working from home.

We hear a lot about the importance of ‘work-life balance’ these days, but when you’re a working parent, is this utopian ideal even possible? It’s a question many working parents wrestle with regularly, daily even.

What comes to mind when you hear the word “negotiation”? Do you picture stuffy boardrooms with suits doing big deals? Salespeople wheeling and dealing in a showroom? Or do you think back to those times you’ve had to negotiate salary or rent? The reality is negotiating is something we all do, every day. Life is a series of negotiations – especially your working life. And if you’re going to get ahead in your career (and in life), negotiation is a skill you need to flex and sharpen.

Do you find yourself watching videos over reading instruction manuals? Can you focus better when studying alone or when discussing things in a group? Or do you struggle to sit still when trying to take in new information? Everyone has a learning style that works best for them. Learn about yours and how you can use it to your advantage in the workplace. 

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.

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.

We've all got superpowers within us waiting to be unleashed. Some of us know what they are and some of us need some help to uncover our inner greatness. How do you find yours and use them to your advantage?

How well do you know yourself? We mean, really know yourself? If you want to get ahead in the workplace, reach your career goals and be happy, you need to know yourself.

You know you need to become more self aware to reach your career goals, but how exactly do you do it?