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Generation out of work

Almost one in every two teens in the Canterbury-Bankstown area is out of work, with the region now boasting the nation’s highest teenage unemployment rate.

 Read more  23 Dec, 2009

Travel to boost job skills

If you fear taking holidays could hurt your career, you may need to think again.

 Read more  14 Dec, 2009

Course to equip graduates for work

Flinders University has developed a course to better equip students to enter the workforce in response to business demand for more job-ready graduates.

 Read more  24 Nov, 2009

Young reject office life

Is this the end of the everyday secretary?
Secretaries do much more than fetch the boss a cup of coffee or sit in a typing pool.

 Read more  7 Nov, 2009

Work, life skills give job seekers the edge

Exam results do not matter to prospective employers as much as candidates who are “job-ready’’ and have a broad range of life, work and social skills, business groups say.

 Read more  27 Oct, 2009

Death of the 38-hour week

The 38-hour week is dead, with 2 million Australians working more than 50 hours a week - and the mobile phone and our strong work ethic are to blame.

 Read more  24 Oct, 2009