Money, money, money…it’s not funny…in the poor mans’ world
I’ve always loved ABBA songs…yes I admit it although others won’t. A few months ago browsing in Te Omanga Hospice Shop in Petone, I came across ABBA Gold the DVD and later at home exercised my lungs...
View ArticleInteresting, Unique and Weird Jobs
Quite by accident whilst searching for information on a particular job, I came across an article published last month by The Balance on ‘Top 15 Interesting, Unique and Weird Jobs” – of course I had to...
View ArticleLeadership – what does it look like in these complex times?
I ask the question but am relying on you dear reader to be sufficiently curious to find the answer for yourself. Leadership is a journey not a destination. Whether you are seeking to understand those...
View Article‘Gamification’ in Graduate Recruitment
In several previous posts I have mentioned some of the technical developments that are changing the recruitment landscape for both candidates and recruiters. In the labour market and recruitment...
View ArticleThe Future of Work – A Tax on Robots
South Korea and Samsung, one of the country’s industrial giants, achieved a world-first in the development of militarized robots, and another when South Korea used this technology to protect its...
View ArticleWorkplace diversity: How do millennials stack up?
When it comes to attitudes around workplace diversity, millennials have it sorted. A recent survey by Weber Shandwick and the Institute for Public Relations asked more than 1,000 U.S. adults their...
View ArticleHow important are good grades to employers?
This is the first in the series Top career questions asked by students: questions collected from you, actual students, for our panel at the Careers in Focus event in August. The answer is: It depends....
View Article9 big questions and 6 ways to not be freaked out about the future of work
It wasn’t so long ago (2008), my then colleagues and I were standing around laughing heartily at The Flight of the Conchords and their Robot song. “It is the Year 2000! Robots rule the world” we...
View ArticleHow long does it take to get a job after graduating?
This was the fourth most popular question asked of our Humanities and Social Science graduates at the August Careers in Focus session. Based on our graduates’ stories it comes back to that old...
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