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Afterpay co-founder Nick Molnar.
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Afterpay billionaire rejects ‘AI-washing’ claim as thousands are fired

Half of the “buy now, pay later” company’s jobs in Australia have been cut, but co-founder Nick Molnar insists the business has never been stronger.

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Eighty per cent of resumes don’t make it past the first screening stage. Here’s how you can get an edge.

‘Clear and legible’: Does your resume pass the 30-second check?

Eighty per cent of resumes don’t make it past the first screening stage. Here’s how you can get an edge.

  • Roxanne Calder
RBA chief economist Sarah Hunter has revealed higher interest rates would have led to near 200,000 spike in the number of unemployed Australians.

RBA reveals the number of Australians who’d be out of work if it just focused on lowering inflation

Critics have argued inflation would be lower if interest rates had gone higher. The Reserve Bank has an answer to those critics – much higher unemployment.

  • Shane Wright
Natalie MacDonald resists the narrative of robots stealing jobs.

The week AI came for Australian jobs

There’s no doubt the new tech will reshape workforces, the question is how the transition will be managed and who bears the cost.

  • David Swan
This stock image of ‘stressed out office workers’ accurately reflects how this whole scenario made me feel.

Feel like your job’s gotten stale? Ask yourself this question

You might know how to do your job with your eyes closed, but you might feel like something is missing. Welcome to what South Koreans call ‘goinmul’.

  • Tim Duggan
Wisetech executive chairman Richard White.

WiseTech’s AI jobs sledgehammer – a sign of things to come?

If WiseTech’s strategy was to use 2000 staff cuts as a circuit breaker, it worked. By lunchtime on Wednesday, its shares were trading 10 per cent higher.

  • Elizabeth Knight
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Sharon Kelsey at pictured at her Adelaide home in 2022.

Council should redo CEO hire to meet ‘pub test’: Logan whistleblower

The whistleblower former chief of a major south-east council believes “irregularities” in the recent $500,000 Redland top job process need to be addressed.

  • Matt Dennien
Staff reductions are flowing through Qantas headquarters in Sydney.

Qantas job cuts hit headquarters amid leadership rejig

As Qantas implements a restructure announced last year, some employees are this week learning if their jobs will be cut.

  • Chris Zappone and Millie Muroi
Albemarle has announced it will close its final train at its lithium refinery in Kemerton.

Hundreds of jobs to go as lithium giant pulls pin on WA processing plant

US lithium giant Albemarle has shut down its Kemerton lithium hydroxide processing plant in WA’s South West in a move expected to impact about 250 workers.

  • Michael Philipps
Outgoing CSL boss Paul McKenzie.

Boss of $83b giant CSL exits abruptly

Australian pharmaceuticals heavyweight CSL says its chief executive Paul McKenzie is leaving the company with immediate effect.

  • Clancy Yeates