Managing Your Career
WATCH: Career. Life Design – Looking After Your Career Wellbeing
Many people have found their usual work routines have been turned upside down by Covid-19. When we experience sudden change at work, it can take time to adjust and reintegrate with the rest of our daily life demands. Therefore, it’s good to pause, review and redesign your job, consider how you can contribute in different…
Read More“Lessening the load is okay” – COVID-19 schooling, working, and how to ease the pressure
For most states in Australia, we are about a week into the new working parent or carer ‘normal’ – yet nothing feels normal about this situation. With many of us now working from home, things have gotten a whole lot busier with our brand new role of home-schooler. Kids are learning their school curriculum at…
Read MoreSaving Childcare: Employers Must Be Part of the Solution
“As a nation we must do everything to avert a disastrous child care industry collapse. That can’t happen unless we radically rethink some of the highly complex structures of child care subsidies and legislation at a state and federal level” Emma Walsh, CEO Parents At Work. Impending disaster facing child care industry Imagine having access…
Read MoreHow to say goodbye to ‘mother guilt’: balancing career and family
Podcast: ‘Not Guilty – Balancing A Successful Career And Motherhood’ with Nicolette Rubinsztein and Emma Walsh Can a career mum have it all? And can we have it without the guilt? Nicolette Rubinsztein In this insightful and frank discussion, Parents At Work CEO Emma Walsh and author Nicolette Rubinsztein chat about Nicolette’s book ‘Not Guilty…
Read MoreJob hunting tips
Are you struggling with job hunting? Perhaps you’re returning to the workforce after parental leave, or simply searching for that dream job that suits you? Satisfying the skills and experience needed for the job, building that stand-out resume, and nailing your interview can feel like an impossible mountain hike. We provide 10 applicable tips…
Read MoreDesign your life in 6 simple steps? We interview the author that explains how
Listen to the podcast here Read the interview with Gill McLaren here Recently our CEO, Emma Walsh, interviewed Gill McLaren, author of Think, Plan Live; a step- by- step workbook and coaching guide to defining and designing your best life. In today’s busy lifestyle, the core of life design is working out what you want,…
Read MoreBalancing work and family: Tips for single fathers
Single fathers today face a deeply rooted social bias that calls into question their ability to meet the demands of parenthood. It’s a prejudicial view that’s been around for decades. The New York Times reported 30 years ago on a study which found that single dads felt discriminated against because of an image which vilified…
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