Congrats! Your interview with your Recruiter is done and now you been asked to meet with the Hiring Manager from the company you’ll be contracting at. Succeeding in any interview is all about preparation so make sure you give yourself the best possible chance by knowing what to expect.. These 4 tips will give you that flying start! 1. Structure Meeting the Hiring Manager can...

According to the recent data release from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the number of individuals working in temporary jobs and part-time contracts has risen from one in ten to one in three in the mere space of twenty-five years. Correspondingly, this collection documented one million individuals who now identified independent contracting as their main job; only ten y...

Once upon a time, there was only one sure-fire way to succeed in your career — climbing the ladder until you’ve reached the top. Today, this is just one of the many trajectories towards career development. As the career professionals at the University of Sydney have explained, career progression is now multi-dimensional, and you are squarely in the driver’s seat. As you pers...

Re-entering the workforce can be an extremely daunting task for women who have taken time to raise their children. Many feel as though the traditional structures of employment are incompatible with their busy lifestyles and numerous responsibilities. After undertaking what for many is one of the most challenging and rewarding tasks of their lives, many back-to-work mums feel...

Meet Harriet. Harriet is a Marketing and Communications contractor, working for an organisation that helps disabled individuals improve their mobility, tech assess, employment opportunities and other vital life skills. Harriet’s jobs and responsibilities within the organisation are far reaching. “As I work for two separate departments,” she states, “I do a variety of things ...

Meet Teisha. Since her early teens, Teisha has worked as a contractor, teaching dance to kids from the ages of five to eighteen. While pursuing her own passion for performing, Teisha found that she "just naturally fell into" this line of employment, working her way up from assisting in the classroom to teaching multiple classes herself. Many contractors believe that they mai...

“Indeed, if we were to design a business all over again to suit human nature, allowing people the chance to use their strengths for fair reward and have a satisfying home life, wouldn’t we want this, too?” Averil Leimon, leadership psychologist with the White Water Group ~ The nature of the workplace has changed dramatically since millennials have taken the reins. Now, as Ge...

Getting Gig-y With It The ‘gig economy’ has become a highly popular catchphrase among those discussing the labour market. Essentially, it refers to a trend in hiring independent contractors, freelancers and contingent workers, rather than traditional full-time workers, with a massive influx of workers now opting for this form of employment.[1] It’s not only Australia that th...

“There needs to be a change[d] workplace culture in Australia. Flexibility is the key.” ~ Nicole Lessio, acting executive director of The Parenthood An inability to attain a cohesive work-life balance is increasingly becoming identified as the major problem for a vast amount of the Australian workforce. As Work Health and Safety researches at RMIT have discerned, there are a...