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Hiring
‘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.
- by Roxanne Calder
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Opinion
Work therapy
Should I bother applying for a role already earmarked for a colleague?
Just because this open role has a whiff of fait accompli about it, I wouldn’t necessarily say that you should pull out of the interview.
- by Jonathan Rivett
Opinion
Workplace culture
Jackie O’s spectacular resignation should be an inspiration to us all
We can endlessly debate that Henderson should have done this years ago, but it still doesn’t diminish the courage it takes to stand up to a workplace bully.
- by Tim Duggan
The female-focused companies with the biggest gender pay gaps – and where the gap is reversed
Some of the largest gender pay gaps in the country are among women’s fast fashion and mid-range apparel retailers.
- by Millie Muroi and Jessica Yun
Unions demand Albanese hand every worker 25 per cent more holidays
An extra week of paid annual leave to compensate for unpaid overtime would be the first increase to the entitlement since the 1970s.
- by Millie Muroi
Employers to jobseekers: Your AI résumé isn’t fooling anyone
It’s easy to spot when candidates over-rely on AI, employers say, yet jobseekers aren’t holding back on the technology.
- by Danielle Abril
Opinion
Workplace
Weaponised incompetence is rife at work. Here’s how to shut it down
People think weaponised incompetence is only for romantic relationships. But it’s just as prevalent at work, and we’ve all been perpetrators and victims of it.
- by Shelley Johnson
‘It keeps me afloat’: The side hustle earning Angie $10,000 a year
There is a growing number of full-time workers taking on extra jobs to make ends meet.
- by Nina Hendy
Opinion
Work therapy
How do I know if the recruiters calling me are dodgy, or legit?
Nobody wants to let a good job pass them by simply because a recruiter or hiring team lacked polish, but being wary is also worthwhile.
- by Jonathan Rivett
Opinion
Jobs
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’.
- by Tim Duggan
Should some jobs not be outsourced? Skydiving instructors think so
Skydivers walked off the job at jump sites across the east coast last week over a deal that would pay visa workers less than the company’s full-time employees.
- by Chris Zappone