Career Development + Career Counselling Services
As the New Year is well underway, you may be interested in developing skills to better your career. A MOOC could just be what you are looking for. A MOOC or a Massive Open Online Course is perfect to develop both hard and soft skills and can be delivered in a timeframe perfect for you.
If your New Years resolution is to escape your current job, but you can’t leave until you have something else to go to, then read on. We have everything you need to get yourself ready to apply for something new right now.
Continue reading “All you need to apply for your next job is right here”
One of the biggest mistakes job seekers make is they go straight into writing a resume without the right preparation. Preparation is not just about formatting and layout, it’s also about knowing what to include and what to highlight.
Continue reading “Don’t start writing your resume until you have done this”
While it’s important to focus on your resume, application documents and interview skills, in this day and age it’s as important to take control of your personal brand online, as it is offline. In a world of internet searches and social media, it is hard to escape what the world wide web says about you. If you’re looking for work then your personal brand could make or break your chances in the eyes of a potential employer or a recruiter. Now is the time to take control of your personal brand and here’s how.
If you think Career Development is only for professionals, CEOs or those crazy nerds working on their PhDs then this post is for you. Today we are addressing some of the common misconceptions about Career Development and I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
One of the reasons careers are so interesting is that they are never linear and rarely predictable. There is always an opportunity to find your mission and if you are an aspiring yogi than it may not be as far away as you think.
Continue reading “From Corporate Marketing to Yoga Instructor & Wellbeing Coach”
In this episode we explore government support for workers with a disability as well as older workers. Fairwork are enforcing back payments to a company who haven’t met their obligations. Fairwork has also released a guide to help Franchisors meet the fairwork obligations of their networks. Personal leave entitlements are under the spotlight as shift workers come under investigations and lastly, recent research has found that Australians are under putting themselves under unneeded financial pressure.
Your resume is often one of the first things a potential employer will see, and first impressions are important! With so much information out there about how to make your resume stand out from the (sometimes hundreds) of other applicants, we want to make sure you’ve got the basics covered first.
In this episode, we see smokers hit the spotlight, as well as the Fairwork Commissions latest leave entitlement release. We find that Sydney and Melbourne may not be all they’re cracked up to be on the wages front for average Australians. An important lesson was learned in regards to resume writing for a gentleman who extended the truth and a social media spurred sacking has occurred in Canada that may surprise you. Updates to the Centrelink system and Fairwork services could mean positive outcomes for many and we see more good news from the NDIS in relation to access and job creation.
Before enrolling in any education program, it is important to have a full and complete understanding of what you are getting yourself into. A nested course is no different. While it may look appealing to complete multiple qualifications at one time, it may not be what you expect.